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Searching for the GooglePhone? Here's the Lowdown
By Rob Beschizza  November 02, 2007 | 4:58:25 PMCategories: GooglePhone, Phones
The Google Phone may dropkick the wireless industry as early as Monday.
The Wall Street Journal says the legendaryplatform/service/framework/protocol/network/McGuffin has decided tocome two weeks early — but still doesn't know exactly what it will be.
Describing it with such boilerplate vagaries as "big plans inwireless," "a splash in the mobile market" and "alliance with varioushandset makers and cellphone operators," the implication is clearlythat it's a platform of integrated software and service offerings thatanyone, in principle, may work into a new machine's hardware. Here'swhat we know, based on the Journal and other sources:
- The Journal's sources say it will be T-Mobile and Sprint on board to begin with (Yesterday, it was Verizon and Sprint!)
- International carriers seem to be in on the action too: Bharti Airtel's leaking info like a sieve over in the subcontinent.
- Om Malik says the hardware's coming from everyone except Nokia.
- The phone will be running a "highly optimized Mobile Linux" with a strong Java flavor, again according to Om Malik.
- The Journal's Amol Sharma says to expect HTC as the "likely bet" for the manufacturer of the first set of phones.
HTC is Microsoft's honey, manufacturing many Windows Mobile-basedhandsets, which puts the big question front and center: Google'splatform, if it is not an operating system too, will surely have toplay nicely with Windows Mobile, given the spread of handset-makers inthe crystal ball. How will the two co-exist in the mobile advertisingspace?
I'll go with the obvious bet: it'll be an initial disappointmentfrom a "Gee Whiz" viewpoint, but clearly the wedge-end of a longer-termplan that goes part hardware and software and right to the cloud. Butwe want hardware. Superior steeple-fingered analysis is to be found atsister blog Epicenter, wherein Dylan prepares to eat hat. |
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