Google phone in the horizon?
There has been a lot of activity over the last couple of days about a possible Google Phone. It all started on Dec 11, when a few employees tweeted about the phones that Google handed out to them.
One Google Program manager tweeted
Stuck in mass of traffic leaving work post last all hands of 2009. ZOMG we had fireworks and we all got the new Google phone. It’s beautiful
While another said
Like An iPhone On Beautifying Steroids
Google responded with
Unfortunately, because dogfooding is a process exclusively for Google employees, we cannot share specific product details. We hope to share more after our dogfood diet.
Posted by Mario Queiroz, Vice President, Product Management
This new Google phone aka Nexus One is by HTC and is expected to be out by January. It is rumored that Google is going to sell this phone directly and it will be an unlocked GSM phone. That would put T-Mobile and AT&T in the radar for now.
It is supposedly very fast. It runs on a Snapdragon chip, has a super high-resolution OLED touchscreen, is thinner than the iPhone, has no keyboard, and two mics. The mic on the back of the phone helps eliminate background noise. It also has the voice-to-text feature and that would open up a lot of doors.
If t his news is true, now, wouldn’t that put the companies that have embraced the Android OS at a risk? Wouldn’t Google would stand to gain so much more by just focusing on the software. After all, they have been the only company to keep Apple on their toes.
Is this really a Google phone or is this testing of Android 2.1 by Google employees? Let’s wait and see what January 2010 brings. Whatever it is, it is going to be interesting.
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