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A comment on Anandtech's Detailed WP7 Review. Parent comment

Re:Anandtech's Detailed WP7 Review by rbanffy on Thursday October 21, 2010 @07:55AM (#1815055)
I think that would be for the "full Google experience" with Google-branded apps. If you choose to go plain Android with your own apps instead of the Google ones, you should be free.
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Re:Anandtech's Detailed WP7 Review by borisk on Thursday October 21, 2010 @08:14AM (#1815093)
Without license one also loses the name 'Android', the good deal on Google Ads and access to the store. All telecoms and big phone companies do pay the fee.
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Re:Anandtech's Detailed WP7 Review by rbanffy on Thursday October 21, 2010 @09:58AM (#1815351)
True. Android is Google's trademark, much like you can't fork Red Hat and call it Red Hat or have little red fedoras in its icons.
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