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All HTC smartphones in China will arrive with Froyo pre-loaded

By | July 29, 2010, 2:31am PDT

Summary: HTC made the announcement earlier this week that the company would go by its own brand name for the first time in China, and now the deal has gotten sweeter with the fact that all Android phones headed there will have Froyo pre-installed.

HTC made the announcement earlier this week that the company would go by its own brand name for the first time in China, and now the deal has gotten sweeter with the fact that all Android phones headed there will have Froyo pre-installed.

Four HTC models have been confirmed to sell in China: the Desire, Wildfire, Tianxi and Tianyi. Each one is promised to have both Android 2.2 and the HTC Sense interface. Not a bad way to get consumers to jump on your brand’s bandwagon.

Meanwhile, current owners of HTC smartphones in most other places are still waiting for a Froyo upgrade. Some models are expected to get the update in August, like the Droid Incredible, but we’re still holding out for an official announcement.

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Rachel King is a staff writer for CBS Interactive in San Francisco. Before serving as a contributing editor at ZDNet in New York City for two years, she previously worked for The Business Insider, FastCompany.com, CNN's San Francisco bureau and the U.S. Department of State. Rachel has also written for MainStreet.com, Irish America Magazine and the New York Daily News, among others. Rachel has a B.A. in Mass Communications and History from the University of California, Berkeley and a M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University, where she served as art director for the student magazine, Plated.

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Interesting.
matthew_maurice 29th Jul 2010
Especially because as of now the only Android device that officially supports 2.2, the Nexus One they produce, still ships with 2.1 installed, and has to get the 2.2 update OTA.
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gdstark13 29th Jul 2010
Does the Chinese dictatorship require censorship software on smartphones as well?

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Interesting.
matthew_maurice 29th Jul 2010
Especially because as of now the only Android device that officially supports 2.2, the Nexus One they produce, still ships with 2.1 installed, and has to get the 2.2 update OTA.

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