The market leader in Windows smartphones is once again showing its teeth and has taken the initiative to be the leader in Android smartphones as well. It had the foresight and the courage to launch the world’s first Android smartphone in 2008 with the HTC dream provided to T-Mobile which promptly rebranded it as the T-Mobile G1.

It has also demonstrated anew its OEM muscle when it gave search engine giant Google the HTC Passion handset for its first incursion into the mobile phone business with the Nexus One running what else, but its own open source operating system in its latest iteration, the Android 2.1 Éclair.

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