SK Telecom to Launch 13 Android Based Phones in 2010

SK Telecom is South Korea’s biggest mobile carrier but their biggest rival – KT – just recently started exclusively selling the iPhone. KT just started selling them iPhone in November and has already sold more than 200,000 units. It looks like Telecom’s plan to counteract their rival is to start launching Android phones. They have announced that they could launch as many as 13 Android phones in 2010 and up to as many as 25 Android phones by 2013:

“We will have 25 smartphone line-ups in 2013, or 40 percent of our total handset offerings, mostly equipped with the Google OS,” the executive said, adding Android phones have strong competitive edges on Internet-related interfaces than devices with other operating system(s) including iPhones.

“It’s clear that SK Telecom will drive Android phones as consumers have greater preferences for phones providing a high accessibility toward Web-surfing and other multimedia contents. In that perception, Google’s mobile services are qualified,” he said.

Based on the stats in the article about Android’s popularity that we mentioned earlier the betting on the  Android OS is good idea, its sales and buying power has been increasing absurdly. I think many other companies will follow suit and start making Android their mobile OS of choice.

[Via Korea Times]