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Updated Wednesday, February 18, 2009 10:31 am TWN, AFP

'Google phone' builds momentum with HTC

BARCELONA -- Google's bid to dominate the mobile phone operating software market got a boost on Tuesday when Taiwanese handset maker HTC unveiled the third phone based on the Internet giant's technology. The touch-screen HTC Magic is to be sold by British network operator Vodafone and its subsidiaries in Britain, France, Germany and Italy, the companies announced at industry event Mobile World Congress here.

Rival developers are battling to create the dominant operating system for mobile phones, with Google and its Android system competing with software giant Microsoft, handset maker Nokia, an open-source Linux-based project and Blackberry.

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