Google supports LTE & offers Android to Nokia

It will definitely be sweet music for the supporters of LTE!! In a special keynote session at Mobile World Congress, Google CEO Eric Schmidt remarked, “LTE will provide the platform for a set of new mobile applications that we can only begin to imagine”.  He further added that the rollout of LTE networks and new cloud based services this year will mark the start of a new era for mobile innovation.

 Eric mentioned Android OS as being at the forefront of this change, and added that Android phone activations were now running at more than 300,000 a day with 170 Android-based handsets currently available from 27 device vendors - making it the “world’s fastest-growing mobile platform.”

Although he did not talk much about the Nokia- Microsoft tie-up, but he did say, “We would have loved Nokia to have chosen Android and our offer remains open.”