Google Mobile Phone in the Works?
This past week, there has been some buzz about the possibility of a Google mobile phone.
Google isn't commenting on the device but it has been described as a "low-cost, Internet-connected phone with a color, wide-screen design."
The rumored phone is said to be "aimed at bringing Google to users who don't have a PC." A Google entry into the mobile phone market could cause some conflicts with Apple. Google and Apple have recently partnered to bring Google technology to users through the upcoming Apple iPhone.
TimesOnline.co.uk points out that such a product launch would require massive production capacities, which Google lacks, and that previous rumors of Google entering the low-cost PC market have not come true.
Google is developing its own mobile phone, according to industry insiders and analysts, while a Google official in Spain last week acknowledged the company is investigating such a project.
Google isn't commenting on the device but it has been described as a "low-cost, Internet-connected phone with a color, wide-screen design."
The rumored phone is said to be "aimed at bringing Google to users who don't have a PC." A Google entry into the mobile phone market could cause some conflicts with Apple. Google and Apple have recently partnered to bring Google technology to users through the upcoming Apple iPhone.
TimesOnline.co.uk points out that such a product launch would require massive production capacities, which Google lacks, and that previous rumors of Google entering the low-cost PC market have not come true.
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64 months ago
Sounds fun
affordable, and with a powerful search function for mobile browsing
sign me up,
only after my contract has expired for an iPhone of course...and assuming Apple didn't come out with anything better in the mean time..
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affordable, and with a powerful search function for mobile browsing
sign me up,
only after my contract has expired for an iPhone of course...and assuming Apple didn't come out with anything better in the mean time..
:'
64 months ago
Sounds fun
affordable, and with a powerful search function for mobile browsing
sign me up,
only after my contract has expired for an iPhone of course...and assuming Apple didn't come out with anything better in the mean time..
:'
I will consider if the price is
64 months ago
I think before anything, data rates need to come down first. Even on contract here in the UK, you could be paying £1-2 per MB on GPRS/3G. Coming out with a phone designed purely around phone and internet capabilities would tend to target the low end of the market, on Pay As You Go.
I know it's pure speculation at the moment anyway, but the way all phones are going, costs will have to start tumbling soon.
I know it's pure speculation at the moment anyway, but the way all phones are going, costs will have to start tumbling soon.
64 months ago
I can't really see this happening, especially with Google's partnership with Apple. I could be wrong, but then again we never did see the "low cost PC."
Not to nitpick, but the first sentence of the article has a typo in it. Just thought you'd like like to know... :o
Not to nitpick, but the first sentence of the article has a typo in it. Just thought you'd like like to know... :o
64 months ago
what if they Google Phone and the iPhone are one and the same?
Damn it jaded monkey, you beat me to it by 50 seconds. That is the exact view that I have and corresponds with the previous reports of google CEO Eric Schmidt commenting that "we [google and apple] have many more things in line together." Apple and Google, you heard it hear first, or well second:rolleyes:
64 months ago
I wonder if this will be a rebranding of an existing phone - if it is indeed cellular? If google want to bring 'Google' to the masses, it won't be the iPhone because thats too expensive for the majority. Perhaps maybe the iPhone sans the cellular component.
Like above, it sounds like a Nokia tablet thing. However, there isn't enough wifi base stations around to yet justify such as device - if your wandering around a city and want to make a phone call etc.
It seems difficult to image Google making hardware.
Like above, it sounds like a Nokia tablet thing. However, there isn't enough wifi base stations around to yet justify such as device - if your wandering around a city and want to make a phone call etc.
It seems difficult to image Google making hardware.
64 months ago
If this rumor proves to be true, Google will be at serious risk of losing their focus. They've already got a lot of projects running, many of which are far from perfected. Next they jump into a complex and highly competitive hardware market, having never made a single hardware product? Apple has been criticized by some for entering this market with the iPhone -- and they've got over 30 years of experience building hardware!
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