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- Alex2, on 10/10/2007, -2/+34To dispense all GooPhone rumours:
The fabled GooPhone will:
-have a brushed adamantium skin.
-use the newly acquired radio spectrum to create a distributed meshnet worldwide and will even extend to space as it will be launched as solar powered satellites.
-will be powered by solar, biofuel, wind, tidal forces, and human kinetics in the event the user gets up as well as sucking up stray microwaves from cell phone radiation as a power source.
- will use a beowulf cluster of playstation3's embedded into it's new revolutionary chip.
- will interface with all your devices in your house as the linux media center does.
- will run Googlinux.
- will have a slot for expanded storage - suck it iPhone!
- will have bluetooth, wifi, gps, wimax. gprs, cdma, will be unlocked.
- will read your brainwaves so you don't have to injure yourself playing wii games.
- will emulate every operating system. - tony134340, on 10/10/2007, -0/+24I'm all for it. Not a Google fan boy, I'm just a fan of competition. It's win/win for the consumer. iPhone, Google phone, PSP-phone. The market's getting hot. Hopefully Google's new mobile OS will grow and maybe they'll think more about the desktop OS market.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -5/+23All we have until now are only rumors, RUMORS. There isn't a FACT surrounding the Google phone at this moment.
- nerd05, on 10/10/2007, -0/+18These are not so much facts as they are speculation. That being said, I think the Google Phone OS is a very exciting development, and I hope it does in fact exist.
- Broadway, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14Five Speculations About Google Phone
- iFungus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11I see all of these fancy new devices with touch screens, but I hope the budget market gets their share of these innovations as well.
- pinabete, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9The news should NOT be about the phone, but what wireless network will back the phone. If Google bids and is successful in the upcoming FCC auction, then things will get very interesting: the gPhone and Google's own national wireless network. Apple cracked open the door a little bit with the iPhone when Steve insisted that Apple maintain control of the phone's design. If Google rolls out it's own network, it could kick the door off the hinges.
Otherwise, the gPhone, no matter how cool its design, just becomes another multimedia device with WiFi... - spidoman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7I'm fairly certain google is in charge of that relationship.
- Nat3r, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7the GPhone is free too...unless you dont want adsense on it, then you pay, but still, its free if you dont mind googads
- Nowheredan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8I'm excited about the Google Phone, but I just buried this as inaccurate - these are hardly "facts."
- coredump0x01, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8I'd rather Google know where I am then, say, AT&T.
- idconvict, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Google pulled your phone number and name from some online phone book not some random search result page.
If you don't want them to have it, simply get an unlisted number. It's not like your name, address, and phone number are any sort of secret. - scabbers, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7Doesn't Google know enough about me already, without knowing where I am at any given moment?
- iFungus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5First rule of spamming: Learn English
"I am very disapointed because of couple of reasons. First, this is yet another browser Web App developers will have to write special code so their existing applications can run on it. Second, the bigest thing mobile browsing currently is missing most, not counting descent browser itself, is a transparent browser. Browser which will not hide what data you are sending, to whom you are sending that data, how much that will cost, or even such a little thing as what cookies currently are stored on my phone." - phiberoptik957, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4How can these be facts when the device hasnt even been anounced yet?
- ascheinberg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4It would make a lot of sense for Google to base a "new" browser on Safari since most people serious about mobile traffic have already begun writing for the iPhone.
Also, it seems silly to me to think that Google WOULDN'T want to bundle its own Java apps on it. Otherwise, what's the point of a google phone at all? - GMorgan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4The new mobile Java platform is quite good actually (in terms of new API's) and most of the efficiency issues have long been killed in more modern JVMs.
- MavRevMatt, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5If it gets hype like "that other phone" did, I hate it.
- hmunkey, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I'd rather look at some ads that I won't click instead of paying a massive bill each month.
- SonicBoom1000, on 10/10/2007, -4/+7What does this have to do with foxyfox's comment?
- Zap2, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4I hope not...Google is doing what it does very very well...and its making a company that can fight MS on the money field....MS still has a lead, but Google, with Apple(these two have $$ and a reason to fight), Mozilla, Linux(not that those 2 have much money, they give people ways to not use MS), Dell and HP( support Linux on consumer PCs...)
- GMorgan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Yeah, ads are a way of getting stupid people to pay for our internets.
- shortarabguy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Fact: "Something demonstrated to exist or known to have existed."
Guys, stop wetting yourselves and accept that the Gphone is an unverified rumor at this point. I'm getting tired of all the Gphone articles claiming to be factual or absolute. - samdu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3If Google were smart, they'd announce this thing immediately after Apple announces the new iPods. The press would eat that up.
- speedyrev, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3But will it have Goobuntu?
- meatmcguffin, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Would Google risk their new found relationship with Apple by releasing an iPhone competitor this early?
- Salgat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I'm personally sick of Java apps. They load so damn slow. I want a google phone that runs on grease lightning, C++.
- OneAndOnlySnob, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1To answer the first question: fiction. The rest is irrelevant.
- Salgat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I don't think so, all that would do is bring attention to the consumer tech industry, and divert all that attention over to the iPod when it's announced.
- Sushubh, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1it's om malik. the heading is typical om malik *****.
- theficus, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3What a bunch of ridiculous speculation.
1 - Will run Linux and use a Java VM. Ok, so? Just about every phone out there has a Java phone. Big deal.
2 - All apps are Java apps. Ok, so?
3 - This one is a laugh. The Java UI will be "responsive". Come on. Java and responsive don't belong in the same sentence.
4 - Browser is written in Java. Browser is written in WebKit. This could be a Nokia 61xx-series phone for all we know. It has both pure Java browsers (Opera Mini) and WebKit browsers (the Nokia browser).
5 - Rumors about rumors about rumors with no facts.
This article is nonsense. It could be talking about just about any Symbian Series 60 phone for all we know other than the whole "it runs Linux" sentence. - acceptab1euname, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1That worked real well with cable TV.
- zadadka, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Agree with tony134340...
Inevitably, such competitiveness will result in miniaturised personal communications (& data) becoming "free"... you would likely just choose your bandwidth instead of minutes allocation from your "mobile ISP".
On the subject of Google in the desktop OS market?...'afraid I disagree here....Google will likely avoid the potential for their name being tarnished by the type of rushed-out-product- SNAFUs we see from the likes of Microsoft.
Wisely, they appear to be choosing well presented, well tested, well-researched services that echo established products, and then add the Google-pazzaz (and no, I'm not a fan-boy either).
The Holy Grail of a secure Home/Corporate OS will come (perhaps "rise" would be better) from the open-source arena...from those that know what we need, from those that what we want, and from those that have the capability to create and provide exactly that, bolt-on by bolt-on...........instead of a "best endeavours, take it or leave it" package, complete with the out-of-the-box weaknesses commercial pressures to release a product always provide.
Meantime, from other Replies.. "Microsoft worried"?
Only in your dreams.
In the UK, not all that long ago, the telecoms market was de-restricted from the incumbent Government monopoly...despite in excess of 100 telcos operating, it took 10 years before that incumbent saw their market share fall below 85%.....the same will be true with Microsoft, by which time, they will adapt. - da5id, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Well, there was the bit about Java, That equals 0.1 fact, maybe.
- GMorgan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You mean base it on KHTML?
Maybe, Firefox is likely too heavy but KHTML browsers can run very cheaply. - GMorgan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2No immediately before would be cleverer. It would royally piss off Apple though.
- acceptab1euname, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You're assuming that portable communications devices will always have a screen mounted on them.
- tnoy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1No one will watch porn on a 3" screen, so they'll never surpass anything.
- da5id, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Buy what? I mostly read Digg for comments like this. lol
- jake8689, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2well i pay AT&T, google is free
- ozziek, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Oh great - Java - what means it'll be slow as crap and eat all the memory like most Java apps on a phone. Googles iPhone may end up being a few years ahead of the iPhone which is about 5 years behind everything else.
- ascheinberg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Webkit, not KHTML.
- fivestarsoul, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1you rule
- da5id, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Dude below is ready to buy...
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The first comment was a waste. If you don't like my comment just bury it or add me to your block list.
- Aldhelm, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Does anybody but me remember when Google was just a search engine?
- cavergeek, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0May the Gphone come with quickness. I am looking forward to this next, major, step towards one world under Google.
- nisheet, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0same here calebbrownley.. but I am afraid if I will be able to buy it
- Theli, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0As if having to listen to what the 'original' fake Steve had to say wasn't bad enough, now we have to listen to copycats?
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