Innocomm Technology, a young smartphone developer, plans to launch its first handset with Google's Android mobile operating system and an analog TV receiver in the middle of this year, a company representative said Tuesday.

The new device should come as a warning to a number of mobile phone makers. Innocomm is one of a new breed of smartphone design houses aiming to provide high quality, low-cost handsets to mobile phone network operators around the world.

The specifications of the Innocomm Shark, as the handset is called, put it in a category of smartphones that might cost US$500 or $600 retail, but it will actually sell for a lot less than that when it comes out in May or June, according to Chuck Huang, a sales manager at the company.

"What we do is sell a high-end smartphone at a low-end price," he said, adding that network operators will likely offer it for free with reasonable service contracts.

source: pcworld