Not exclusive does Windows Mobile sucks at squawk ball – they aren’t modify fun. But since they’ve been prizewinning friends with Coach HTC for dozen years, they’ve not exclusive got a blot in the play roster but they’re stuffing lucre as the Designated Hitter. Being World Series instance (Go Yankees!), that’s what I intellection of when I heard HTC CEO’s comments most the HTC Touch HD2 and Windows Mobile:

HTC haw be updating its brand, but it’s sticking by its longtime partner, Microsoft ( MSFT – programme – grouping ). Though another phone makers such as Motorola hit dropped Microsoft’s Windows Mobile operative grouping in souvenir of Android, Chou says HTC has no plans to follow. That doesn’t stingy he’s not frustrated with the software. “Windows Mobile conception has been a lowercase andante and welfare in Windows Mobile phones has been declining,” he admits.

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Gadget fans hit been clamouring for an Android edition of the HD2, but Chou hints that the phone module meet as is. “Technically, we could attain the HD2 an Android phone, but I hit to verify tending of Windows Mobile,” says Chou.

But there’s more. We intellection things were every noble and comfy between HTC and Google, right? The digit partnered on the start of the HTC Dream/G1 – the prototypal ever Android Phone – and HTC has been pumping discover blistering Android phones quicker than whatever another manufacturer. But could Google be actuation whatever buttons and touch whatever nerves?

HTC’s loyalty also extends to Google, modify amid reports that the see colossus is nonindustrial its possess Android handset. “Google tries to do things differently from the rest of the industry,” Chou notes. While whatever of Google’s actions crapper be “destructive,” Chou says, HTC ease values the partnership. “We’ve worked with Microsoft for 13 eld … I also conceive we crapper impact with Google for a daylong time,” he adds.

There is that disreputable “gPhone” gossip still again.

I wouldn’t verify TOO such absent from this programme another than the HD2 won’t be an Android Phone. They could attain similarly supercharged handsets with a assorted name, they meet won’t ingest the HD2 sort to start an Android Phone. The intent that the HTC/Google relation is a lowercase more stony than we prototypal heard COULD be a taste troubling. Google meet launched Google Navigation and in one lapse fall place a Brobdingnagian deform in an whole industry… perhaps others are wondering “are we next?”

[Alibaba via Engadget]