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, reports the usually well-informed Wall Street Journal Wednesday according to sources involved in the project.

The system would

deep integration with Chinese apps like the Twitter version contain Weibo. Top woman Cher Wang of HTC, the project would personally monitor.

The project would be consistent with the desire of the Chinese government to use Western software. less use A large majority of all mobile devices in China runs on Android, the system being developed by Google.

Possibly the system of HTC or a customized version of Android. About that indicate the sources of the Wall Street Journal inconclusive. The plans in this regard would be the last year has been changed.

private system would join HTC in a row of alternative mobile operating systems, including Mozilla Firefox OS and Tizen Samsung and Intel.

recently said Mark Moons, Director Benelux at HTC, recently said in an interview with Nutech that the company has little interest in developing its own operating system. “Self do something I do not see that happening soon.”

work with Tizen and Firefox OS, HTC according Moons not currently do. “We looked at Tizen OS and Firefox, but every time there was something that we said that we should ignore.”