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Google to announce Gphone plans Monday
The Wall Street Journal ^ | November 1, 2007 | Michael McCullough

Posted on 11/02/2007 9:59:34 AM PDT by DallasMike

The actual launch of the much-vaunted Google Gphone won't happen till the middle of next summer, but this Monday Google will announce some of its plans. From The Wall Street Journal:

We won’t have to wait much longer to hear from Google about its big plans in wireless. The company looks set to make a splash in the mobile market on Monday, announcing an alliance with various handset makers and cellphone operators around the world that are willing to push its “open” platform for cellphone applications, sources say. It’s always possible the announcement’s timing could change, but Monday looks like the day at this point.

The U.S. carriers likely to be part of the announcement are T-Mobile and Sprint, according to our sources, but there could be others by the time Google says its piece. While Sprint appears to be agreeing to work with Google to put the Web giant’s new Linux-based open operating system into phones, T-Mobile will probably go even further: the company has worked with Google for months on plans to build Google-powered phones with a variety of Google software and applications. As far as handset partners for Google, Taiwan’s HTC is a likely bet, our sources say. Samsung, LG, and SonyEricsson are also possible, but we’ll wait and see the full roster. Equally interesting will be who isn’t on the list.

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What will the impact be? Well, Google is trying to remake cellphones in the model of the Web, making them as open as possible to new applications in areas like social networking and map-based services. It’s too early to tell whether this will be a revolution in cellphones – or just an evolution that improves on the relatively open platforms already out there, like rival Microsoft’s Windows mobile. If the partnerships result in Google-branded devices hitting the market, we’ll get a chance to see how much pull the Google name really has in the wireless market. We’ve already seen the pull Apple has.

Here is a possibly leaked drawing of the Google Gphone courtesy of Laptop Logic.

Google phone


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: google
Stingray: Conservative blog
1 posted on 11/02/2007 9:59:35 AM PDT by DallasMike
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To: DallasMike

I own both Apple and Google stock.


2 posted on 11/02/2007 10:41:18 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: DallasMike

Yay, I use Sprint and have a giant discount on my plan already


3 posted on 11/02/2007 10:45:27 AM PDT by Crazieman (The Democrat Party: Culture of Treason)
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To: DallasMike

GSM and CDMA with 3G ?

Looks like a replaceable battery

Linux based ?

Maybe that’s why they announced that the iphone would get 3rd party apps ?


4 posted on 11/07/2007 8:33:40 AM PST by RS ("I took the drugs because I liked them and I found excuses to take them, so I'm not weaseling.")
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