Carsten Brinkschulte, CEO of Synchronica, has been in touch to give us his thoughts:
"Google Android is just another smartphone platform that will work with our mobile email and synchronization middleware right out of the box, just as we supported the Apple iPhone when it launched last year. Google Android will be addressing a very similar market to the iPhone: i.e. early adopter, wealthy, high tech users. Therefore, it's unlikely that we will see Gphones in the emerging or mass markets any time soon. There's a common misconception that every time a major vendor jumps into the market, we will see more smartphone sales. This is rubbish. My prediction is that the Gphone will have very little impact on the mass market, where feature phones dominate.”
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