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Samsung and Google are planning to develop a Hindi version of Android operating system. Hindi version of Android? If this is true, this is probably the greatest positive thing that can happen to the mobile ecosystem in India. This is one area that even Microsoft has not tread. I used to longingly look at Korean / Chinese / Japanese versions of Windows and wonder when such things would be possible in India – Imagine how the PC adoption rate would increase with that. Microsoft did attempt something with XP & Vista but the results were disastrous . With all the hype about mobile-first internet market & so on, Android being available in Hindi (& other Indian languages) would be God-send. BG Mahesh would be the happiest man in this – he has been struggling with such issues for over a decade. With all the challenges with fonts & input mechanisms for Indian languages, it requires an organization like Google to really take the lead. Hope they really do. My contacts in Samsung India are not even aware of this and I guess this is more likely to remain a rumour, though I sincerely hope it does not.