Linux Based Google Phone for 2008
Published by Budda August 3rd, 2007 in Gadgets, Communication, Mobile Phones, PDA, Internet.
Google Inc has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in its cell phone project and is courting U.S. and European mobile operators according to The Wall Street Journal.
Google has also developed prototype phones and talked over technical specifications with manufacturers including LG Electronics, but finally gone with Taiwan’s High Tech Computer (HTC) Corp to design a Linux software-based phone for launch in the first quarter of 2008.
HTC have been responsible for a large number of Microsoft Windows powered devices over the years, and make some great speced hardware - just pitty the Windows Mobile OS crashes.
Sources are saying T-Mobile, owned by Deutsche Telekom , would likely be Google’s U.S. partner with France Telecom’s Orange selling the phones in other markets.
Mobile advertising is still a relatively small market but advertisers and wireless experts expect this to change when Google’s phone launches with the new funding model. Interesting times are coming in 2008…
Source: Reuters
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9 Responses to “Linux Based Google Phone for 2008”
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One imagines that Google’s primary requirement of a mobile platform is that it is one on which it is not possible to install ad-blocking software. To this extent, the fact that the phone might run a version of Linux is as irrelevant as the fact that the iPhone runs a version of Mac OS X. It will, of necessity, be a completely closed system on which you can’t install any third party software
T-Mobile? other than GSM if you want international coverage, this is the worst partner possible!!!!
The design doesn’t look much appealing to me
So long as it is compatible with SxCheck!
holy moly . i def. want one of these …great gooogle
Hmm.. the phone looks thick. i hope HTC won’t design a thick bulky phone. i like slim cell phone like the motorola v-series. anyway, looking forward for the google phone launch.
m.. the phone looks thick. i hope HTC won’t design a thick bulky phone. i like slim cell phone like the motorola v-series. anyway, looking forward for the google phon