Android is the fastest growing mobile operating system. So, most of the mobile companies are now using this mobile OS in their smartphones. Google is also trying its best to make this mobile OS better with each update. Now a new report claims that Samsung is in talks with Google to penetrate India’s core users.
According to the report published on The Mobile Indian, Samsung is planning for a Hindi version of Android. If this becomes true, Android will see better growth in India. Android currently supports major European languages and Chinese.
On this, Asim Warsi, director of marketing of Samsung’s mobile business, said, “Android is a third party operating system and so we do not have much control over it, but we are in talks with Google for such a version. However, we can’t comment on when it will be done as that is not in our control.”
Google has not given any response on this. But Hindi is also one of the most popular languages of the world and launching the Hindi version will surely succeed. When support for languages with a much smaller number of speakers, such as Polish and Korean, is available, it is not a valid argument that support for Indian languages cannot be developed.
Moreover, since touchscreen phones do not use physical keyboards, manufacturers can create virtual keyboards for many languages and the user can select his/her language from a drop down menu.
Google also knows how to make plans to grow its products and I am sure it will consider Hindi version of Android for sure.
