Why we'll all soon forget about Google's Android

October 15th, 2008 By Chris O'Brien

Jui Tan, a partner for BlueRun Ventures who is based in Beijing, happened to be in Silicon Valley for a meeting a couple of weeks ago when Google finally unveiled the first Android mobile phone.



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    Hmm, all 1.5 million of the pre-order US G1's sold out in days and last I had heard the next round sold out as well and not one soul of the public even has a hand-set yet. This article couldn't be more wrong. Android will be a game changer, mark my words on this.

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