Google has delayed the launches of two Android-based mobile handsets in China, the first tangible sign that the US internet company is likely to suffer from its dispute with Beijing over hacking.
The launch of the two handsets, developed with Samsung and Motorola for China Unicom, the country's second-largest mobile operator, has been postponed, a spokeswoman for Google China said.
The move suggests that the Android-based platform – the open source mobile operating system designed by Google to allow developers from handset makers and from mobile operators to build customised handsets – is likely to feel the repercussions of the company's warning to pull out of China.