AT&T Preps New Android-Powered Mobile Device

LOS ANGELES — Despite reports about the demise of Google's mobile operating system, Android, AT&T is coming out with a new device based on it, the HTC Lancaster.

Tech analyst Matt Buchanan compared the device to AT&T's previous entry, the HTC Touch Pro. Both devices feature a large touch screen coupled with a full qwerty keyboard that slides out from underneath the screen.

"I've always wondered what Android would be like on a Touch Pro, and that's basically Lancaster," Buchanan wrote for Gizmodo.

Google's Android OS was originally hailed as the tech giant's answer to Apple's iPhone. Apple iPhone runs on a native OS that Apple carefully guards. Apple doesn't let users customize the OS and vigorously polices its applications marketplace.

By contrast, the Andoid OS is just that — an operating system. Manufacturers of mobile devices are more or less welcome to build devices that use its flexible platform, which is beholden to no one company.

Most important for the adult industry is Android's friendliness to adult endeavors. The SCORE Group has put out a XXX app for the Android platform, while adult developers for the iPhone must build apps that include no sex or nudity. Otherwise, they have to risk entering into the iPhone black market, which caters to users industrious — or crazy — enough to override the native iPhone OS.

According to tech blog Engadget, AT&T may want to contribute to the look and feel of the HTC Lancaster's operating system.

"AT&T wants its fingerprints all over the interface, which risks pushing out the launch — and that's a double whammy of suck," wrote analyst Chris Ziegler.

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