Android smartphones

The Google Vice President of Android Product Management, Hugo Barra, has been hired by Xiaomi, in order to assist the Chinese smartphone company enter the U.S. market.

Speaking recently, Barra said: "In a few weeks, I'll be joining the Xiaomi team in China to help them expand their incredible product portfolio and business globally - as Vice President, Xiaomi Global."

Xiaomi has a $10 billion valuation, after completing a fourth round of funding. Furthermore, more smartphones have been sold by the company on the Chinese market than Apple.

One of the major barriers cited to the growth of WebRTC has been the lack of true mobile integration into WebRTC. This has repeatedly been raised as the major potential barrier to adoption. In fact, the forecasts of a billion WebRTC devices by the end of 2013 include a large number of mobile devices including smartphones and tablets. While Ericsson showed their "Bowser" implementation, so far WebRTC has been limited to PCs and the Chrome and Firefox browsers.