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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/chinandroid.jpg" width="494"
height="329" /Compared to the a
href="http://gizmodo.com/5097979/zzzphone-is-second-google-android-cellphone-ever"ZzzPhone/amdash;a
modern marvel of engineering and/or MSPaintmdash;the i6-Goal is sort of boring: it's got no QWERTY,
3G, two-week battery, male enhancement powers, emetc/em. It does, however, appear to be
emreal/em./p pAnnounced by TechFaith Wireless and QIGI, two Chinese companies that very much seem
to exist, the i6-Goal is a reassuringly modest accomplishment. The touchscreen phone is a
relatively normal quad-band GSM phone, featuring a 2MP camera, GPS and an SD slot. The hardware
actually looks quite similar to that of the HTC Touch, which perhaps not coincidentally can
hackishly a href="http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=2084090"run Android/a./p pimg
src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/chinandroid1.jpg" width="494"
height="347" /Notably, the handset will be the first released in both Windows Mobile or Android
flavors, so with a little creative bootloading action users may be able to dual-boot their mobile
OSes. The handset will obviously be China-only, but its release will affirm that it's not emthat
hard/em to get an Android phone out, albeit a sort of lame one. [a
href="http://www.eprice.com.hk/mobile/news/?news_id=6051"EPrice/a via a
href="http://androidcommunity.com/qigi-offers-a-slick-smarphone-that-runs-either-android-or-windows-mobile-61-20081128/"Android
Community/a via a
href="http://www.slashphone.com/techfaith-and-qigi-launches-i6-goal-android-phone-for-china-023500"Slashphone/a]/p
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