Personal computer and smartphone firms showed off a range of smartphones running on Google's Android operating system, and detailed plans for PCs with Google's Chrome system at Computex, Asia's largest computing trade show, in Taipei last week, reports Kelvin Soh of Reuters.
Both Google and Microsoft were running full court PR blitzes at Computex, a show dominated by Taiwanese PC firms whose devices usually come pre-installed with operating systems. The newer smartphone and tablet PC spaces could be the first to see true competition, as Google and Microsoft compete with rival products from Apple, Nokia and others.
Android was ranked just ahead of Windows Mobile in the first quarter of this year, with its number of users increasing more than eight-fold from a year ago, according to Gartner. By comparison, the number of users of Microsoft's Windows Mobile system remained largely flat at about 3.7 million users.
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