HTC’s China-only Android rival OS purportedly shown in leaked picture

[Wireless News]

It looks like HTC really is building its own smartphone platform. Android Community points us to a leaked picture that purportedly shows off HTC’s new smartphone OS that it will use exclusively on smartphones sold in China. The layout of the purported HTC OS looks a lot like the Blinkfeed overlay that HTC developed for its latest Android devices so it still isn’t clear whether this new platform is completely new or whether it’s simply a forked version of Android modified specifically to fit the Chinese government’s specifications. The Wall Street Journal reported last month that HTC is building the new platform because China is-eager to have an alternative to mobile platforms developed by-American companies Google and Apple, which have

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