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- fkr3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+120"But some Internet giants are taking no chances. Google is developing comprehensive software for mobile devices that goes well beyond search and the other services it already offers.
Despite the prototype and the persistent rumors that a Google phone is imminent, few in the industry expect the company to go into the business of selling phones. Analysts are speculating that the company plans to persuade hardware manufacturers to build phones based on its software that may initially be aimed at overseas markets."
Yes ... that really, truly confirms it, beyond a doubt. - allenb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24Confirmation comes courtesy of "one person who has seen it" ?
Well, I'm convinced! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23This article doesn't confirm the Google Phone at all.
- stevenvh, on 10/12/2007, -12/+30"Microsoft's main product used to be a programming language"
And now they're a law firm & marketing company. I hear rumours that they still keep 2 programmers, just in case, but they don't even keep them in dungeons anymore! By gad, they even take up holidays! - 2Deluxe, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20A friend of my brother's friend's next-door-neighbour's goat said so.
- jalenack, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13> In case his point wasn’t clear, Mr. Schmidt drove it home: “Mobile, mobile, mobile.”
Aww, I thought Mr. Schmidt had more class than Ballmer. - inkswamp, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10I tend to doubt that Google is going to jump into producing their own phones. It just seems too sudden and puts them into two areas (hardware and software) where they have almost no track record to speak of. I think both Google and Apple could benefit enormously by working together to produce great stuff for the iPhone. Google can play its strength there by providing the raw info and Apple can play its hardware and software strengths. It seems like such a perfect match that I'm going to throw that out as my prediction as to Google's future in this area.
Other predictions...
Microsoft will still be talking about how great their phone will be two years from now.
Yahoo will buy up 4 or 5 other phone companies and ruin... er, improve them. - ElbridgeGerry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8RTFA.
There was no confirmation. - carl0ski, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10@robhhh
since your being so rude
are the Xbox, Xbox 360, Zune, MS Brand PC Peripherals also Software?
If every company that dominated a market just stayed doing the same thing they'd go broke.
There is in reality only two options for a company on top of a given field.
Expand or perish. - norbiu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Is that the same goat Sony beheaded the other day?
- randomgeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Google is a Internet Services company. This article talks about Google developing software for Internet Services on moble devices. This has nothing to do with hardware such as a phone. I don't know who is digging this story up, but evidently they can't read. While the article itself is interesting because it shows Google getting more aggressive with selling their product, the conclusion reached by the submitter and the topic used is innaccurate.
Dugg down as such. - psbpv3o, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10I haven't slept either, ***** school project. Procrastination is horrible.
- guyinjapan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5At the risk of being dugg down: why?
I know there's been talk of a Google phone for a while, but I'm trying to figure out why they'd suddenly jump into the hardware business with very little, if any, experience. Plus, they're doing so well with software, why not just further that end rather than invest millions in some phone venture? Unless they have some revolutionary cell phone software, I just don't see the reasoning. Anyone care to enlighten? Why is Google doing this? I'm curious to see some ideas. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5This article is why I dont read the NY Times much. So many words, so little information.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Why on earth would Apple release a Google branded iPhone?
- TokenUser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@randomgeek
Google is an "Internet Services company"?? For several years, Google has actually been closer to an ad agency, deriving more revenue from the sales and distribution of advertising than anything "internet services" related.
Companies build prototypes all the time. Google already has a hardware device it sells, but for them partnering with carriers makes more sense, and having a device that can demonstrate what they bring to the table is far more powerful than a set of powerpoint presentations. - julian02392, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Does anyone else think the Google would come out with a computer befor it jumps into the phone buisness?
- flipcritic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3In an interview with BBC's Michael Lewis (for a documentary), Sergey Brin said that there was still a lot of growth in the search market. One example is looking for information during inconvenient times away from the computer. Phones might be the way to make it more convenient for those who want to search during this time. Why they're concentrating on selling a phone instead of concentrating on software might just be to strengthen brand recognition.
I'm no expert. This is just my best guess. - cyssero, on 04/18/2009, -0/+3All these new phones are great and wonderful, the iPhone, Google-based-phone, etc, but until the price of data-transmission is HEAVILY reduced I can't even begin to think about them. I have a wonderful SE K750i, but I have hardly used some of the coolest features it has simply because jumping on the Internet costs an arm and a leg. All I really use it for is SMS and making calls because anything else is too expensive. Data rates are just absurd at the moment, most people I know don't even have WAP/GPRS set up on their phone even though their phones can handle it -- simply because you'll rack up a huge bill using it.
Not sure if this is the same in America, but it's ridiculously priced here in Australia, from just about every operator. - lazydrumhead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3why don't stories ever appear as being 'possibly inaccurate' anymore.
too few diggers burying? - inkswamp, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Before anyone jumps on me, when I said Google has no track record in software, I'm meant of the embedded variety that you might find in a typical cellphone.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Introducing the new Google gPhone!
Now searching 1,000,000,000 Contacts! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2They did, on April 1st.
http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Yahoo_to_launch_yPhone_in_2007_forget_the_iPhone - julian02392, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Then again
1-800-GOOG-411
NEVER, in a million years, would I have saw that coming!
I love when it does the little "blip, bloop, blop blop, blipe bloop" when its analyzing what you said
Puts a smile on my face :] - mjesales, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1what hasn't been to clear to me is if google phone is going to be a voip product or a cell phone..... in the voip area - there is plenty of room...
- Gaines, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1We're gathering a community in preparation for the official annoucement and launch. Google has a history of releasing well researched top notch products...plus it's supposed to be made by HTC (same people who made the Sprint Mogul), run Linux, and make use of an internal GPS. What more can you ask for?!
http://www.GoogleMobilePhone.net - uptown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You can do all of that with the phones out there today. Google already released Google Maps for smartphones.
- brook011, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I know Google has tons of talent and free lunches, but they seem to be all over the place in technology. Are they spreading themselves too thin? Either way I want a cool phone that isn't Jobbed down. :)
- barrald, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1pics or it didn't happen
- Jomwilli, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Read: "We all just want a new, cooler cell phone NOW!! Our Razr's are now old and scratched and have some kind of a weird plastic smell to them."
- armor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm on T-mobile in the US and i have unlimited data for $4.99/month. It's the cheapest one here for sure. It's quite awesome.
- cyssero, on 04/18/2009, -0/+1That's pretty awesome, only $60 a year. I think our telecom networks just suck :(
I'd love to be able to check my Gmail all the time without worry about paying through the rear end for it.. - flukierdonut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1more power to google...at least someone can do something right
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i wouldnt mind a google phone at all.
google maps+ google news+ reasonable price > iphone - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm using a blackberry now with Gmail (app and pop) but I'd love to be able to have push gmail and be able to archive/label/star my emails directly on a phone. The gmail app while great just doesn't beat the web interface.
- TylerC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This should get interesting...
- morriscat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2If Google comes out with a phone? One that does an end-run around the current incumbents with wifi or wimax?
I'll not only buy and carry one, I'll thoroughly enjoy the disruption of status-quo. :) - aiden786, on 04/04/2009, -0/+0This directly resulted in a significant decrease in revenue for small affiliate marketing and advertising businesses in Marketing Internet New York.http://www.marketwithartemis.com
- hunter186, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'd like to see google push a wifi voip phone. There might not be enough publicly available wifi in most places, but here in a college town I can't think of anything better. Should be able to provide lots of data capabilities more cheaply, I would think
- iStealth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It will never be to the iPhone standard, it does not sound that good!
- northerniraq, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0another april fool?
- jeremy66158, on 10/12/2007, -7/+7This piece also talks about the apple iphone and Google's partnership with apple.
- sleepwalkers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@tokenuser: Wouldn't supplying internet advertisements qualify as an "internet service"?
- calculus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Buried as inaccurate.
"Despite the prototype and the persistent rumors that a Google phone is imminent, few in the industry expect the company to go into the business of selling phones."
"In an interview on Thursday, Mr. Schmidt declined to comment on any plans for a Google phone. “We have a large investment in mobile phones and mobile phone platform applications,” Mr. Schmidt said."
This confirms nothing apart from a prototype. - inkswamp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@mad5,
Why on earth would Apple release an HP branded iPod? Because it benefited them at the time to do so. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1except microsoft already make phone software and have done so since 2002 :-)
- EEdesigner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Right now, my plans are for the IPhone. If Google has one in competition, perhaps I'll consider. If it has any, ANY microsoft components in it....fuggetaboudit! I'd then have to wonder if lost calls were the cause of hardware or the normal microsoft inability to program anything having consistent performance.
- SniperX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@carl0ski
robbh wasn't being rude. The guy he was aiming his comment at was "idioticbug", hence the "@idiot".
And he has a point, read The Tao of Warren Buffet; lots of good info, one quote being "the nations wealthiest families made their money by focusing on one specific trade." The Gates' software, the Walton's Walmart, Dell, etc. Staying focus is the primary goal.
With that said, Google is not above testing the waters of anything their engineers think they work some magic on. - newstart, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I do programming for mobiles in Symbian C++ and J2ME. And I always wondered whether there is any future in this or not. But after looking at the hype mobile phone programming are getting I guess its cool
- koko775, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1true -- it confirms a prototype. Still, it could be interesting to see google's take on cell phones.
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