By Claudine Beaumont, Digital Channel Editor
Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 08/02/2008
The first mobile phones to use a new type of software developed by internet giant Google are set to be unveiled next week.
Google has been keen to stress that the Android platform is more about software than hardware.
The sophisticated handsets will make it easier to browse the web and bring some of the programs and features usually found on home computers to mobiles. Some of the world's leading phone manufacturers are expected to reveal prototypes of devices running Google's new operating system at next week's Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona.
The operating system, known as Android, was announced last November, and is backed by an alliance of more than 30 mobile phone operators, handset makers, software firms and component manufacturers.
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