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They really should consider Verizon, or Verizon reconsider Google as a customer. With Verizon's Wireless EV-DO speeds upgraded to fight EDGE, Google's phone would perfectly take advantage of it and boost Verizon's network.

Open Access, Web services, Linux+Java, hundreds of millions spent on development...

Yup... Google has it right on this one. It's a long-term investment. Gates' Google Phone FUD from last week is admission of fear. Otherwise he would have ignored it.

Blog spam. Original source: http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN0242431720070802

Dammit. I love Verizon but dam I want something cool too!! Stop being such tightwads.

obviously somone didnt get the farting women only memo today

AAAaaaaaaaaaarh I wanna G-Phone.

Verizon turned down Apple for the iPhone demands and now Google for their ad revenue sharing demands. I wonder if Verizon's corporate arrogance and unwillingness to compromise will ultimately lead to it's downfall. Two poor decisions, IMO.

Sounds like a typical phone with a Google search on it. plain jane. I'm waiting for a Skype cell phone (service paid for with google ads)... impossible in the US because of the strangle hold on wifi/broadband that the big teleco's have.

I'm surprised they ever considered partnering with Verizon. Verizon does have a good network but they tend to cripple their phones to stop customers from using them freely. It seems to be the opposite of what Google is trying to do to the cell phone industry.

didn't we already call out another spam blogger for another article without pics? CRAPPPPPPPPPP!

buried as lame.

Would be nice to see something like this on Verizon. I already hate Verizon quite a bit, but here lately, not having any cool phones to buy is getting really really ***** lame. I'm sorry, but I don't want a Fatberry or Palm Treo to carry around in my pocket. They're too damn big. And I'll pass on anything Windows Mobile based. I've had too much bad luck with any Windows based phone to try that again.

No thanks to ANY CDMA... I refuse to support a company that only lets me pick a phone THEY supply (Telus and Bell Mobility here in Canada for example)..

GSM FTW!!

itd be awesome as a free service with voip over 700MHz

of course no picture dugg down besides blog spam

If it's around $300, then I'll definitely buy it. Otherwise, just make it less than $600.

man wtf nothing for sprint customers :(

I can see it now, Google will open stores for this phone and call it "the Gspot". The ladies will love it, but the guys won't be able to find it.

Another American company with seemingly no idea how the European market works. Each country has it's own rules and regulations, and most phones are not sold by the carrier. Customers generally pick the carrier after they have bought the phone.

It would be great if this ran the next version of Ubuntu, Gusty Gibbon, which has a version made just for cell phones.

P.S. Why the hell is this linked to some stupid blog and not the real article. Digg should have some sort of blog spam fix feature. The link to a story should be able to be changed from a blog to the original article if enough users report it.

What Google REALLY needs to do is use it's influence to make the US market more like that of the rest of the world: you go to a shop, buy a phone. Then, you contact a provider, and get service for your phone. No punitive early-cancellation contracts, you know how much the pheon costs, you get real options and real features, and no disabling crap on the phonbe or mucking with the phone software.

You make a GSM world-phone, what's the incentive to partner with a carrier? Sure, people using Verizon, the hold-out non-GSM provider in the states (even Sprint/Nextel uses hybrid iDEN/GSM phones) might be left out -- but only until Verizon switches (it's expensive to be the sole remaining operator of a CDMA network).

Free monthly service - they listen to your phone calls to send even better targeted ads before you check voice messages! The automated system I get on Verizon already eats away at enough of my time, why not get something out of it?

I can't wait until they figure out that Wifi and Cell Phones should always go hand in hand. A new type of coverage. VOIP is much cheaper too! Say goodbye to cellular!

Is it just me, or does the image mockup of the Google phone, the supposedly Linux based one, look like its running Windows mobile?

Will this enable me to bypass AT&T's secret telecommunications spying?

I hope there is good support for web technology from all software providers, not just google....

www.dcpweb.co.uk

This will be cool, I wonder how the interface is going to look?

Mmmm in my opinion verizon iskeeping it on the down low... but a g phone would be great if verizon has its hands in it.

There is NO HARDWARE PHONE on the way! No prototype "gPhone" exists.

Yes, they're exploring the mobile market thoroughly, but they're looking to run their software and webware on pre-existing devices... they prefer to develop on Linux instead of some proprietary operating system, and that's great news. But they're not designing or branding their own hardware phone.

This is inaccurate, as are the headlines preceding this one.

and yet the pic shows it running windows mobile....?

....t-mobile? give it to VZW or sprint!!

Now THAT... is a phone.

btw: i work at customer care at a sprint/nextel call center and you're all ***** morons.

I wonder if Google is the mystery "big name vendor" who is supposedly partnering with OpenMoko on their phones... that would be an interesting combination.

Go Google !!!! make some waves