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Google has postponed the launch of two mobile phones produced specifically for the Chinese market, Media reports said.
The manufacturers of the mobile phone, which was scheduled for launch in China on Wednesday, are Motorola and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, and China Unicom would have been the carrier, Times Online reported Tuesday.
Marsha Wang, a Google spokeswoman, revealed the launch had been postponed.
The company did not say how long the launch would be postponed or give any other details.
The two handsets were set to run on Google's Android operating system and had been due to include Google-branded features and apps, such as mobile search and Google maps, according to the Times Online report.
Android is an open source mobile operating system, already adopted by China Mobile's OPhone and Dell's Mini 3, which were launched in China late last year.
Chinese magazine "Caijing", said that China's domestic partner in the deal, China Unicom, had published an internal notice saying that Google had withdrawn authorization for content to run on its applications.
Motorola and Samsung had also apparently been notified by Google to eliminate all Google-related elements from handsets, the report said.
The launch of China's first WCDMA-based 3G Google phone, also scheduled for Wednesday release, has also been scrapped. |