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It was only a matter of time - and a number of positive headlines proclaiming Android as “savour of the cellphone” - before competing firms stepped up and gave their opinions, and so far it’s been a mixture of the scathing, the subtle and the sidestep.  First up is Symbian, whose heated diatribe with the BBC leaves little room for confusion as to their stance on Google’s Linux-based platform:

“About every three months this year there has been a mobile Linux initiative of some sort launched.  It’s a bit like the common cold. It keeps coming round and then we go back to business” John Forsyth, Vice President of Strategy, Symbian

Forsyth goes on to criticise Google’s apparent confidence that they can translate their expertise in search technology into the cellular world, suggesting that they not only lack the support backbone to maintain Android but that third-party developers would be reluctant to shift focus to produce software compatible with the platform.

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