Smartphones, but potential for other devices too.
US mobile operator Verizon Wireless has inked a major deal with Google to start selling Android handsets, with the first models going on sale this year.
The announcement rather loftily describes "devices of the future", which we're assuming could include netbooks, tablets and media players as well as smartphones.
Google and Verizon will develop devices together preloaded with both companies' applications, as well as those of other developers. It's unclear whose app store will get priority though: Android Market or Verizon's own offering.
"Through this partnership, we hope to deliver greater innovation in the mobile space to consumers across the US," says Google chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt, who made the announcement today alongside Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam (both pictured).
It's a fascinating deal that shows how far the mobile industry has moved in the last two years: Verizon, formerly the most closed of carriers, working with Google.
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It also strengthens the impression that Android is going to be a key platform for the distribution of mobile entertainment in 2010 and beyond.
Now, will the operator's new spirit of openness extend to allowing the Google Voice telephony app onto its new range of Android handsets? Watch this space...
