Google不做GPhone，但GPhone会无处不在

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业界众目期盼的Google Phone新闻发布会今天中午终于向人们揭开了Google电话计划的神秘面纱 - Google没有Google Phone，但Google Phone会无处不在。同三十多个厂家一起，联手4大国际手机巨头，推动“开放手机联盟”，让其手机操作系统 - Android成为继Symbian, Windows Mobile, Palm OS以及mythical Linux PalmOS之后的又一移动操作系统。后来者能否巨上？这是一个2.0的时代，这是一个开放的时代，想想当年IBM PC是如何击败苹果的。

       

• 软件包是免费的，手机厂商不需要交费       
  
• 初期定位人群不是消费市场，还是那些忙忙碌碌的工作人员       
  
• 2008年中期才能看到所谓的GPhone
  

Google Phone Announced As Mobile Operating System

By Rob Beschizza November 05, 2007 | 11:56:07 AM




Googlehas whipped the tarp off of Android, its open-source mobile operatingsystem. Eric Schmidt will be joined by industry supremos from DeutscheTelekom, Motorola, HTC, and Qualcomm for an event today, wherein itshall be known that anyone can make their own gPhones. If they want to.
From the Official Google Blog:

                "Despite all of the very interesting speculation over the last few        months, we're not announcing a Gphone. However, we think what we are        announcing -- the Open Handset Alliance and Android -- is more significant and ambitious than a single phone."       

The press release touts "significant freedom."

                "The Android platform will be made available under        one of the most progressive, developer-friendly open-source licenses,        which gives mobile operators and device manufacturers significant        freedom and flexibility to design products. Next week the Alliance will        release an early access software development kit to provide developers        with the tools necessary to create innovative and compelling        applications for the platform.       
                Android holds the promise of unprecedented benefits        for consumers, developers and manufacturers of mobile services and        devices. Handset manufacturers and wireless operators will be free to        customize Android."       

"We're enabling an entire industry to create thousands of gPhones," says Nick Sears, a co-founder of Android.

UPDATE:The call-in conference is done. It is another competitor to Symbian,Windows Mobile, PalmOS, and mythical Linux PalmOS. It changes little.gPhones will still be carrier-locked, for example. There will be norevolution for you.
gPhones will, however, have nice software. gPhones will also beaccompanied by a chorus of angels singing "opeeeeeeen souuuuurrrrce."gPhones will be coming next year. gPhone's SDK will be out in a fewdays. gPhone's big backers appear to be Qualcomm, Motorola, HTC(!) and Intel. All of those except Qualcomm are reasonably Finlandized toward Redmond, so it is kind of thrilling, as far as such things can be.

Furthermore, we should probably stop calling it gPhone now, becausewe've known there was no such thing for weeks and this announcementturns the dead horse into a curious discoloration on the groundsurrounded by people wondering why they are carrying flogging sticks. But there are always dreams.
Hop over the Wired's Epicenter for the straight dope on what the Android announcement means. Or, if you prefer your news old-school style, see the AP wrapup on this morning's announcement: Google Dials Into Cell Phone Market.

Google Gaga For Wireless

Carl Gutierrez, 11.05.07,3:30 PM ET

The wait is over.
After weeks of  speculation, web giant Googleannounced on Monday that it was developing a free software package forcell phones that would give it a new platform on which to sell ads andservices (See "Google's Call").
Shares of Google (nasdaq:GOOG -news-people) rose $7.58, or 1.1%, to $718.83 in afternoon trading.
Investors,analysts, and other observers have been giving their two cents on whatkind of relationship the Mountain View-based Google wants to have withthe cell phone.
This is not Google’s answer to Apple's(nasdaq:AAPL -news-people) widely-known iPhone, since Google won't be making the devices. (See  "Will Google Crush the iPhone?")
Instead,the company will work with four cell phone manufacturers who haveagreed to use Google’s programs on their handsets. So far, Motorola(nyse:MOT -news-people),Samsung Electronics, HTC and LG Electronics have agreed to use Google'ssoftware in some of their phones. Both Motorola and Samsung alreadyhave Microsoft's Windows Mobile on some of their phones.
Thatmeans the announcements aren't really aimed at consumers but at theworker bees of the technology business: developers who will build thestuff that eventually consumers may buy.
Consumers will have tobuy a new phone to get the Google software because the bundle won'twork with most existing handsets. Indeed the first phones equipped withGoogle's so-called "software stack," won't be available until thesecond half of 2008.
Engineers have been working on the softwarefor three years, dating back to a Silicon Valley start-up calledAndroid that Google acquired in 2005. The mobile software still bearsthe Android name in acknowledgment of its heritage.
"This isgoing to bring the Internet into cell phones in a very cool way,"promised Andy Rubin, an Android co-founder who is now Google's directorof mobile platforms.
Monday’s announcement is just another stepin Google’s determined march to put its mark on two of the biggesttrends in information technology: the rapidly changing world ofwireless communication and "social networking." (See “Google’s Growing Grasp” and  "Take That, Facebook!").
Evenwith its market debut months away, Google's software looms as asignificant threat to other mobile operating systems made by Microsoft(nasdaq:MSFT -news-people), Research In Motion(nasdaq:RIMM -news-people), Palm(nasdaqALM -news-people) and Symbian, which is owned by Nokia(nyse:NOK -news-people).
BecauseGoogle's software will be free, it could undercut rivals who chargehandset makers to install their operating systems. It also promises tomake smart phones less expensive, since manufacturers won't have to payfor the software.
Google's system will be based on computer codethat can be openly distributed among programmers. Google hopes thiswill encourage developers to create new applications and other softwareimprovements that could spawn new uses for smart phones.
"This isa shot that is going to be heard around the world, but it's just thefirst shot in what is going to be a very protracted battle in the nextfrontier of the mobile Web," said Michael Gartenberg, a JupiterResearch vice president.
The list of wireless carriers that have agreed to provide service for phones with Google software in the United States include Sprint Nextel(nyse:S -news-people) and Deutsche Telekom's(nyseT -news-people) T-Mobile in the United States. China Mobile(nyse:CHL -news-people), Telefonica(nyse:TEF -news-people) in Spain and Telecom Italia are among the carriers that have signed on to provide service outside the United States.
Those are among the  34 companies that have secretly organized over the past year into a group it calls the "Open Handset Alliance."
Oncean alliance member has made the first phone available to the public,the intellectual property at the heart of the alliance will be openlyavailable to any other company developing mobile technology.