Samsung hopes to have Google phone early 2009

In addition to phone using open-source Android platform, handset maker plans to have four or five WiMax phones out soon.

Reuters

March 12, 2008 9:00 a.m. PT

Korea's Samsung Electronics hopes to have a phone based on Google's Android mobile-phone software platform by early next year, it said at the Mobile World Congress on Monday.

Samsung added that it expected to have four or five WiMax phones out this year. WiMax is a wireless technology similar to Wi-Fi but with longer range and stronger signals.