ASUS to launch Android phone next year?

John Chan | Oct 30, 2008

CNET Asia blogger Jonathan Gardner alerted us on ASUS' intention to enter the Google Android game, following the buzz created by HTC's G1 in the US.

Digitimes is reporting the same thing, giving even more details by saying that the product will be launched in the first half of 2009.

Interestingly, if you head over to the Open Handset Alliance Web site, ASUS is not listed as a handset manufacturer there. Currently, three out of four of the manufacturers signed up have not launched any Android product, but are seemingly waiting to see how the HTC G1 will do. So, as much as we'd like to see an Android-powered "Eee phone", as long as ASUS or Google haven't made any official statement, we'll have to take this rumor with a pinch of salt.

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