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from www.wired.com
This Is Not a gPhone. Please, Tell Me This Is Not a gPhone.
Look askance at this story, wherein India Street claims that the Google Phone is not only an actual handset, but that it will be made by China's E28.
Whileit has "not been able to confirm whether the Chinese smart phonemanufacturer will have the exclusive Gphone rights," India Streetoffers the following evidence:
(1) Google is into "open" stuff, and E28 makes Linux phones.
(2) E28 is obviously cooking up a VoIP cellphone.
(3) An E28 design doc contains the phrase "Mass Market Mobile Convergence," which "sounds like a Googlism."
Now that's what I call irrefutable proof! Maybe the fella is riffing on this Forbes piece, where E28 is touted as an outsider should the likes of HTC not make the flagship
E28's made some nifty Linux-phones in the last few years, but it'snot a big player. A quick review of my tatty, dog-eared phone chartsuggests it doesn't have much of a relationship with U.S. carriers.
Looking at the phone instead of the firm, let's put it this way: if that's the gPhone, there will be slack jaws and silence. If it's a gPhone, well, okay then.
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