CeBIT [2006] -- BenQ Mobile has announced today at the technology fair in Hanover that along with the 6 new phone models being unveiled (12 total this year) they have also struck a deal to preload Google software.
Google has been on a deal frenzy with handset manufacturers to propagate their proprietary mobile search technology. Google's mobile strategy is to beat out other search competitors like Yahoo's Go Mobile strategy and MSN with new services.
BenQ Mobile will make software upgrades available over the air, and handsets that start selling in April with have the Google software already loaded for local information search services.
BenQ took over the failing mobile phone business from German conglomerate Siemens last summer. It is now the world's sixth-biggest maker of mobile handsets, behind the likes of handset behemoths Nokia, Motorola and Samsung.
Last month at the 3GSM wireless trade show in Barcelona, BenQ Mobile said that it would also be the first to launch an HSDPA (high speed downlink packet access) phone. HSDPA will allow blazing fast high speed wireless Internet access and other mobile services at near broadband speeds.
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