Which Is Faster - an Android or a LiMo?

Making good software for mobile phones is hard -- even for a technically adept company like Google. Indeed, it's so difficult that the fleet-footed champion of search advertising finds itself in the unaccustomed position of playing catch-up to normally slow-moving industry behemoths. As Google scrambles to release its mobile phone code sometime later this year, a nonprofit consortium of some of the world's biggest telecommunications companies and handset makers has quietly beaten the search giant.