Apple is Samsung's biggest customer for microprocessors. "This will be our strategic product for year-end holiday season, as (Apple's) iPhone 4S just came into the market," JK Shin, president and head of Samsung's mobile communications business, said in a pooled report
with reporters ahead of a packed product launch in Hong Kong.
This also marks the first major rollout from
Google since it announced plans in August to acquire Motorola Mobility Holdings for $12.5 billion.
The deal had raised concerns among hardware makers that Google may favour Motorola over other handset vendors such as Samsung, HTC and LG Electronics Inc that rely on the free software.
Google's Android mobile software -- already the world's most-used smartphone platform -- powers 190 million devices, up from 135 million in mid-July.
The latest version of Android, named Ice Cream Sandwich, is designed to unite tablet and smartphone platforms, potentially attracting extra application developers and consumers to the Android camp, which has fewer applications available than Apple's.
Samsung, the summit seller of Android phones and the biggest challenger to Apple, said the phone will have access to more than 300,000 applications and games, versus over 425,000 apps from Apple's App Store.
The release comes after Apple unveiled its latest operating system earlier this month which allows much-touted voice-recognition technology dubbed "Siri."
Technology websites ran live blogs of the event, indicating the buzz generated for the new Android software and Nexus.
The Apple handset will be available in 22 other countries, including much of Europe, by the end of October, and more than 70 countries by the end of 2011.
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