Wistron NeWeb’s GW4
Earlier this year at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, a Chinese company called Wistron NeWeb debuted a smartphone with all the right features running MontaVista embedded Linux. From the PC Magazine article:
“But according to Wistron spokeswoman Molly Lin, the GW4 will be running Android by March, when Wistron will start selling it to more prominent firms for branding.”
March has come and gone, with no word yet on Wistron NeWeb’s progress. This news fragment remains notable though, as it is the first, and to my knowledge only, report of a Chinese phone manufacturer representative acknowledging an effort to port Android on a non-Open Handset Alliance affiliated company’s phone.
Here’s a pretty nice video of the GW4:
