It uses Google's Android mobile operating system and is meant to work easily with Google's Web-based services.

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Google is basing the new product on its Chrome Web browser and the Linux open-source operating system.

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Google,the Internet search leader, will now offer a free operating system for personal computers.

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And soon we'll have the Google phone, which will be manufactured by others but will include a Google operating system, browser, search, e-mail and video.

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Phones using the Google Android operating system lead the Chinese market, with Samsung brands in the pole position.

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The leaders are companies like Apple (chips and systems), Samsung (chips and systems), Google (operating system), Qualcomm (chips), ARM (chip designs), TSMC (foundry), and Globalfoundries (foundry).

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