Via TechCrunch the Google Phone:
So Steve (Jobs) must have upset Eric (Schmidt). The Google phone is coming in January says TechCrunch it will be an HTC and TechCrunch claims it will be branded Google. It will be unlocked – so no beneficial operator deal.
Or is it a phone for all Google’s engineers to test Android – meaning it’s an inhouse testing tool that will never go on sale?
TechCrunch and Techcrunch spinoffs got the web-wires buzzing about it over the weekend with hundreds of retweets and comments, suggesting, if nothing else, that the US tech industry is now more firmly mobile than PC focused.
Silicon Valley Insider carried the story Saturday:
Google plans to sell an Android phone made by HTC next year direct to consumers, the WSJ is the latest to report.
GIGAOM weighed in too:
TechCrunch says the “new” phone will go on sale in January. The WSJ says it will be called Nexus One. The Silicon Valley Insider suggests it will be sold direct to customers. What will OHA members have to say about all that? Is this the Phone that sinks Android or the OHA?
If it’s there will be another competitor in line. That makes the phone industry more legit.
If the smart phones hit’s then will be the others. But it’s a great thing to have another phone developer.
Maybe they’s include more google suff in it!
I’m sure they will!
The only way I can see this really upsetting OHA members is if Google subsidize it some way, otherwise I can’t see how it’s any different from the ADP1, except much more widely publicized!
Guys, don’t forget that Android is Less than free.
And Manufacturers already learned how to do heavy UI personalizations, so they are not very much concerned.
Sounds like the old times, when I was in Symbian and engineers were so willing to do a Symbian branded phone…
At least, unlike with Symbian, when you get a handset the manufacturer sells the product with the branding of the OS on the inside.
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David,
It helps when you’re possibly *the* most powerful corporation on the planet.
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*the* most powerful corporation on the planet – rumours, rumours abound right now. I just heard that Google’s real objective is to insert itself into the network oeprators customer interface – ie sell phones with no network contract and then put the contract out to bidding from operators.
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my friends say this phone is the best i’ve been looking for a while and i think i found the one i want!