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p2pnet.net news:- Google already has Google Local for Mobile and now the company’s man in Spain and Portugal, “has confirmed that Google is working on a mobile phone,” says CNET News.
“Some of the time the engineers are dedicated to developing a mobile phone,” it has Isabel Aguilera saying on Noticias.com.
At the beginning of the month, “Andy Rubin has a team of about 100 people at Google working on the Google Phone,” Simeon Simeonov blogged. “So people have been paying attention. Andy was the founder of Danger and later Android, which he sold to Google in August of 2005. Andy is a systems guy and so it’s a good bet that he’s working on an OS for the famed Google Phone.”
The “mythical Googlephone” was said to be, “the result of a collaboration with Samsung - not Alpha Networks or HTC”.
That was Engadget which goes on:
Of course, it’s a button-less touchscreen device as is the rage these days only this time with GPS built-in for pinpoint navigation around Google Maps. What’s pictured in that all too familiar blur (Photoshopped?) is the phone’s contact program said to be an extended version of Gtalk combining Gmail, text and instant messaging. According to our tipster, the device doesn’t have any on-board storage. That’s right, all your applications are served up over the network with new apps ‘attached’ to your account via a web interface. So what is it… the real deal or engorged fanboy fantasy?
Meanwhile “So what has been announced so far about the Google Phone?” - asks Simeonov, continuing, “Coming up to 3GSM there was a lot of speculation about Google and Orange marketing a phone together. The phone would have been manufactured by HTC - a Windows Mobile device no less. Most recently, in January, Google announced a partnership with Samsung where Google’s mobile services will be provided on select Samsung phones. Further, there are rumors that Google and Samsung will build a new phone, codename Switch, together.”
And, “here is what I have learned from my inside source close to the company,” he says, to wit:
Blackberry-like, slick device
C++ core w/ OS bootstrap (some version of Linux?)
Optimized Java running on the C++ core (similar to what Andy did at Danger)
Vector-based presentation courtesy of Skia’s technology
Many services, including VoIP
Stay tuned.
Also See:
CNET News - Europe exec confirms Google Phone, March 15, 2007
Local for Mobile - Google maps on the move, November 7, 2005
blogged - The Real Google Phone, March 4, 2007
Engadget - The Google Switch: an iPhone killer?, January 18 2007
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August 31st, 2007 at 1:18 am
What you have learned from your Google Source is very true..It is indeed a Blackberry lookalike. It is not buttonless as engadget reports.