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- sockpuppets, on 10/10/2007, -2/+30Based on the performance of their Mountain View, CA wifi initiative I'd say slightly better than dialup with occasional dropoffs when you're typing really impor
- niz85, on 10/10/2007, -4/+31"the company is really working on is a way to serve up advertisements on your mobile device." - that's more like it!
- Alex2, on 10/10/2007, -3/+21Of course it doesn't run MS Mobile. Everyone knows the Gphone will be powered by a beowulf cluster of playstation cell processors.
to re-iterate the features.
- adamantium skin which grows back if you scratch it.
- beowulf cluster of playstation cell processors.
- runs linux -duh.
- powered by sucking the life energy out of eco hippies.
- unlocked, wifi, bluetooth, wimax, 700mhz open spectrum, and a subspace link to the aricebo dish.
I think that covers it for the gphone rumours. - zydeco, on 10/10/2007, -1/+18Maybe it's time to take the whole Ritalin and stop breaking it in half....
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15Great 6 sentence article.
- revolved, on 10/10/2007, -4/+18Don't forget about the Google PC:
October 7, 2007: Google has registered the trademark "Google PC":
http://www.trademork.com/google-pc/ - ThisIsLife, on 10/10/2007, -6/+19I DON'T WANT TO SEE ADS ON MY CELLPHONE
- sockpuppets, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11Can't they both exist? Do we really have to "*****" the google phone?
- Travisncs, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11news? nothing about this seems to have any authority. I like opinion pieces on Digg.
- Absinthminded64, on 10/10/2007, -4/+15If Google gets the 700 spectrum at auction what kind of data speeds could they provide with their own phones?
- dragazis, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Screw this article just read the longer and more in-depth NY Times article. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/08/business/media/0 ...
- wageslaven, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8This is Digg! The headline is perfectly constructed: Apple and Google are our friends, and doing the Lords Work by attacking MS. Article? bah, who cares! To the frontpage with this gem!
- worminater, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7pfft, you know adamantium can't be scratched. Stop trying to bs us.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Why not? They've done it before.
- commernie, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8They both WILL exist...but you only have to have sex with the google phone =).
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+9iPhone is a cellphone and the GPhone will be cellphone too. As far as I know Microsoft haven't released a cellphone yet so yes, the Google phone is definitely taking on the iPhone, don't turn your face away from that fact.
- Mossa, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7What if the gPhone services were all free or at least only local rates as long as you accept a few discrete ads. Sounds daft? Think about what they're making from ads alone using exactly this model over the internets and then think about what might happen if they get the spectrum? Just a thought.
- wageslaven, on 10/14/2007, -1/+7But, we cant have our two darlings pitted against one _another_. Microsoft must always be cast as the villain, and our darlings are trying to save us from it.
Dont try and fight the digg memetic zeitgeist, there is no escaping the level of contortion they will endure to assault MS and defend Apple. - tzon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Google reads my email, knows my browsing habits, maps my home, and now wants to listen to my phone conversations.
If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses, eighty-five percent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated - Eldoo77, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Of course they're targeting the MS platform... MS platform = business users & $$$ for the foreseeable future. Apple (iPhone) = FAD that is already looking like its "Jumped The Shark"!
- hiro, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Jeez, they're already breeding a load of gullible fanboys before they've even produced anything. Sounds like competition for Apple to me ...
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -4/+9So in the unlikely chance that this ever actually happens, simply don't get a phone with Google's OS on it.
Problem solved. - sockpuppets, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4It is illegal to transmit 700mhz in the gwarf nebula. Good luck getting an exception too, I hear no one has successfully battled the Hindurc Pit Growler in over three earth decades.
- missingnoh4x, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6More rumors have it that the gPhone will use the OpenMoko platform.
Highly unlikely though, let's just wait and see how both phones turn out before arguing what's better. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Sorry i dont want any ads on my phone...even if its cheaper. keep your ads and spam to yourself google.
- mukund, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4uh I dont want ads on my phones please. I relly like windows CE. Will be waiting for gOS but will not install it untill tehre is an adblocker.
- inkswamp, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5> let's just wait and see how both phones turn out before
> arguing what's better.
Please! Are you new to the Internet or something? ;^) - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Color me unimpressed.
- wageslaven, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4"me too me too"?
Perhaps you've missed the hundreds of millions of Windows Mobile Smartphones the world has bought? If MS releases a phone, its not exactly their first move in the cellphone industry.
Oh, and, the ipod aped the Rio PMP300;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_PMP300
So you can stop with the "zune copied the ipod" FUD unless you want to look like an ignorant fool. - skyscape, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6good luck for Google competing in the OS business. Google is search and advertisement not an OS company. I can imagine how crappy their OS UI is going to look.
- hiro, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6Or even continue the iPhone beating smartphones they've been producing for years. Apple are the "me toos" here
- wageslaven, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3"What the industry is waiting for is an open platform (OS, development tools etc) "
Uhm, I guess you've never seen a Windows Mobile Smartphone? There are tens of millions sold every year. Want to write an app for it? Go ahead. Want to support some hardware? Feel free.
The "industry" isnt waiting for anything. There are already GNU/Linux phones, and Windows Mobile phones, Symbian, Palm, Blackberry are all open to 3rd Party Application Developers. You seem to be missing such elementary facts, Im surprised you'd speak for "the industry". - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3No one is waiting for that.
- inkswamp, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5Oh c'mon... it's going to rock. I hear they've put their Google video team on this.
- OrangeTide, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6google is evil. no thanks.
- adude, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5Past experience with Google's UI makes me think whatever Google is doing really won't compete with Apple anyway: Google is about great simple functionality, while Apple is more about a great user experience with nice-looking flashy effects. Probably someone who wants the flashiness of an iPhone wouldn't care too much about a gPhone, and vice versa.
- lharrod, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2...until Google creates a version of AdSense that can run on any mobile OS, the way it can run on (almost) any web browser. There may come a day when this new Google creation will be on every mobile phone OS, Apple, MS, or otherwise.
- cleverboy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2What's hilarious, is that everyone complains that Apple gets a disproportionate level of attention, given its market share in whatever category. It amazes me, that this story isn't that Google will take on Symbian, as opposed to "Microsoft" who, while running second place, trails waaaaay behind it in the mobile market.
Symbian OS from Symbian Ltd. (72.4% Market Share)
Windows Mobile from Microsoft (6.1% Market Share)
RIM BlackBerry operating system (5.3% Market Share)
Linux operating system (13.3% Market Share)
Palm OS (1.6% Market Share)
OS X from Apple, Inc. (1.3% Market Share)
Moreover, given the less than 1% difference between RIM and Microsoft marketshare, if you're looking at GROWTH (Q2 2006 - Q2 2007), you need to be looking at RIM.
Symbian - 47.8%
Linux - 0.8%
Palm - (-)26.4% (decreasing)
Microsoft - 75.6%
RIM - 188.5%
http://www.symbian.com/about/fastfacts/fastfacts.h ...
Ideally Google will start a new leg, possibly boosting the Linux numbers of starting a whole new column to watch. - supermanred, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4Yeah, uh you go have fun with your OpenMoko phone. I think women are already faxing each other and using the women's bathroom transmission grid to notify each other that OpenMoko users are lame and basically are virgins who live in mom's basement.
- inkswamp, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I agree. I think most people don't want to think a lot about how their phone works. They just want to turn it on and do what they need to do. I love open source and I think it's important, but it's going to have a hard time catching on in phones where customers just want the thing to do what it's supposed to do. And sadly, from what I can tell, companies and proprietary hardware/software seem to have a leg up when it comes to that.
Seriously, where's the wildly successful open source iPod? The iPod has been around for years and people have willingly accepted a certain amount of lock=-in there as a trade off for convenience. If open source phones are going ot be so hot, where is the open source music player? - nandop, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3If what specialists are saying is right, Google is coming for the wi-fi space. So Telecom companies should be (more) worried.
- FredFredrickson, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Haha, nice quote! :D (or should I say it was double-plus good?)
- eatkitten, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4Yes, Google, definitely listen to this guy. Shut apple mouth right up.
- karipatila, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4I wonder if their OS will also be a permanent beta.
- devindotcom, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2A Zune phone is likely in the works... a nationwide wi-max based VOIP network from what I heard.
And can we call a moratorium on using the phrase "FUD" unless we're really talking about "Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt"? Because "zune copied the ipod" is just an opinion on technology, not actual FUD like the bush administration spews out. - cleverboy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2You're right, I missed that. My point however, was that Google (a Linux-based solution) shouldn't be compared to Microsoft (or Apple), but Symbian. The article wasn't even talking about anything specific to the Windows Mobile platform, but phone OSs in general.
For that matter, it doesn't make sense to compare it to Linux either at this point. From the growth rate, it seems Linux could use the shot in the arm (no pun intended). - mastertop, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2RTFA.
- robszol, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2my God, the ads on that blog take up as much space as the article itself!
- Eldoo77, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Anybody remember the Google Videos service??
- worminater, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1saying people "just want to open it up and have it work" is the same as saying "people just want to turn it on and have it work" in reference to desktop PCs. Yet there are the staunch few( and yes, I myself am typing this from an ubuntu box) who will want the ability to rip down and do whatever they want with their phone os. A better comparison would be Rockbox. I would think this would be much more difficult with a mobile phone however due to extremely proprietary hardware. Got that sexy new phone running open source OS you can hack? Sweet! 2 months later its ugly and this really sexy phone is out that isn't supported at *all* by the new OS. You will be happy with your purchase maybe, but that sexy "new" phone out every month which doesn't work with the o.s. model yet will cause much adoption difficulties i think.
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