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Google last week unveiled Android, an extremely versatile open-source mobile phone platform that will be freely available to all handset makers under what CEO Eric Schmidt calls “one of the most liberal licenses in the world.” Will Android change the mobile landscape as much as iPhone did, and if so, how will iPhone suffer — or benefit — because of it?

Apple will sell unlocked iPhones in France next May to comply with a French law that prohibits a mobile phone from being tied to an exclusive wireless carrier for longer than six months. What will this mean for iPhone’s future?

Unlocked iPhones — that is, iPhones that have been hacked to work on any wireless carrier — are currently unauthorized by Apple because of its contracts with exclusive service providers, like AT&T in the US.

Apple will sell unlocked iPhones in France next May to comply with a French law that prohibits a mobile phone from being tied to an exclusive wireless carrier for longer than six months. What will this mean for iPhone’s future?

Unlocked iPhones — that is, iPhones that have been hacked to work on any wireless carrier — are currently unauthorized by Apple because of its contracts with exclusive service providers, like AT&T in the US.

So what happens when France is the only country with unlocked iPhones? Gordon Kelly of Trusted Reviews says, “Maybe Apple feels a hacker free-for-all will follow (it will), or maybe just mass grey imports (that too) but either way - for once - it has conceded that the inevitable is inevitable.”

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