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All users of mobile devices with Android operating system has ever entered the store of applications for this platform, the Android Market, realizing that most of these are available for free, but there are also paid versions, which can be purchased only through Google Checkout.

Certainly to be owned by Google, this approach builds trust in users, but anyway, there is always a group skeptical of this payment system, due to having to give details of the credit card. For this alternative would have been born and in which case a solution, since from Vodafone, a major mobile operators in Europe, announced it has purchased applications on the Android Market can be paid on the monthly bill collection services.

This certainly is a fantastic idea, for those who do not want to give your credit card information over the Internet, or those who are not holders of one. This option for the moment only available in the UK and Germany, but said it will expand for the rest of the continent’s countries, Spain included, progressively over the coming months.

Although this story is the past, the truth is that it was surprising to learn that LG would have had in their hands the possibility to manufacture the world’s first phone with Android operating system. Of course, this fact has occurred, the world order as far as mobile phone deals today would not be the same.

This story dates back to 2007 and Unwired View, LG the only reason for rejecting the offer of Google is that it could be pride. Why? Because at that time LG was on top of smart phones. That year, Apple launched its first phone and LG was the only company that had a team ready similarly, the LG KE850 Prada. Moreover, LG Apple even accused of having copied the design of the terminal at the same time, working on another Smartphone, the LG Views, and a device that much more advanced phone features. The fight was at the time, Apple and LG, then why would LG to share their competitive advantage and market position with Google, a beginner then-?

Therefore, LG separated initially moved on Google. However, your bet does not go well because the software that implemented their phones back then was a management nightmare for users. And above and could compare with the ease with which the followers of the phone managed their devices. Even the LG KM900 Arena which was released two years later, in 2009, with the new user interface S, was a nightmare in handling compared to the phone. And to make matters worse, in late 2008 and early 2009 opted for LG Windows Mobile operating system, a strategy that will not go well, since Microsoft was running and its resources to Windows Phone 7.Thus, when the explosive growth of the Smartphone is between 2009 and 2010, LG had was not prepared to face the fierce competition.

If we compare the current situation with the HTC LG, have nothing to do. HTC is the fourth company in the smart phone market, while the presence in the Smartphone market LG is rather limited and only now is trying to make a hole with the series Optimums and the Android operating system. Not cooperating with Google was a strategic decision that has conditioned clearly past their future.