Google invited reporters to attend an “Android press gathering” on January 5 at the company’s Mountain View, California, headquarters.<\/p>\n
“With the launch of the first Android-powered device just over a year ago, we’ve seen how a powerful, open platform can spur mobile product innovation,” the invitation said. “And this is just the beginning of what’s possible.”<\/p>\n
The invitation provided no further details about the event.<\/p>\n
But it comes amid reports Google is preparing to release a Google-branded smartphone known as “Nexus One” which would be sold directly to consumers and would not be tied to any one telecom carrier.<\/p>\n
Google employees have been testing the device internally.<\/p>\n
A growing number of US telecom carriers and manufacturers have been adopting Google’s open-source Android software in bids to challenge the Apple iPhone and Blackberry from Research in Motion.<\/p>\n
Although Android’s share of the US smartphone market is relatively small, it has doubled in the past year to 3.5% in October, according to comScore.<\/p>\n
The timing of the Google event appears to be an attempt to upstage the annual Consumer Electronics Show which opens in Las Vegas on January 7.<\/p>\n
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