Android supporters were crowing about the 14 new members of the Open Handset Alliance, which backs the Google technology, but particularly about the sign-up of Vodafone. Not only is the largest cellco by revenues hugely influential over handset makers in its choices of technologies, but it has previously been mainly focused, in terms of Mobile Linux, on the main real alternative to Android, LiMo. Like AT&T – which is veering towards using open source Symbian as the standard software platform to underpin its own-branded webphones and mobile internet experience ‘ Vodafone has also been searching for an operating system that was not controlled by one supplier, and on which it could create a highly differentiated, Vodafone branded web platform. Such…