Although the news has not been confirmed by China Mobile, it is expected that the TD-SCDMA handset based on the Android platform will be different from HTC's G1 products.

China Mobile originally planned to offer an Android-platform handset that was based on the open mobile system (OMS) in China by the end of 2008. However, because the development of OMS applications has not been completed on schedule, the company decided to cooperate with HTC to launch an Android handset first as an alternative.

The launch of the Android-platform OMS handset will probably be postponed to the second quarter of 2009.

The Open Handset Alliance, a group of more than 30 technology and mobile companies who have come together to accelerate innovation in mobile technologies, developed Android. Google is a big player in this alliance and has posted copious amounts of data on its Web site for software developers to take advantage of the platform's features.

Source:ZDnet