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Google Cellular Phone
Google
Enters the Cell Phone Market
It seems like everyone wants to get the
new iPhone for Christmas. The Internet has been buzzing about it for
months, but only a select few, really know what it looks like, what it
will do, and when it will hit the streets.
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The Boston
Globe ran a great video a few weeks ago and reported, Google is saying
next to nothing about the work they're doing in their Cambridge R&D lab.
Rich Miner, a Google executive sometimes described as the company's vice
president of wireless but officially a "technical staff member,"
according to a Google spokesman, has shown the phone prototype to a
handful of Boston entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, some of whom
have signed nondisclosure agreements and some of whom haven't. |
Allegedly, the Google Phone brings
the power of the internet in your pocket, in a simple and
intuitive device. It combines the traditional voice and SMS
capabilities of phones with all the exciting Google services
from the PC such as Search, Gmail, Maps, Blogger...
The Google Phone, designed by Samsung, is a very thin and
stylish handset with a large screen and a QWERTY keypad so that
it provides a real internet experience.
All these internet services will be available under a simple
Internet monthly flat fee, comparable to PC Broadband products,
giving you transparency and control over your mobile bill.
Thanks to simple, relevant advertising, Google will even give
you a 3 month discount on your mobile Internet monthly flat fee.
The Google Phone is rumored to be 100% Java-based, through and
through. Contrast this to the iPhone, which is 100% anti-Java.
Overall? Google will have the features that Apple wished they
had - most of which will hinge on their strong web services
presence. But Google will still envy Apple's monopoly on lust.
In August, in case you haven't been paying attention, the old
700MHz wireless spectrum was up for auction by the federal
government. And under the veil of touting an "open" platform,
Google CEO Eric Schmidt announced that the company will
participate in the Federal Communications Commission auction for
the bandwidth--with a few minor requests for the FCC: open
applications for users; open devices that will work with
whichever network provider customers choose; open services that
would allow for third-party resellers to acquire wireless
services on a wholesale basis; and open networks, which would
allow third parties, such as Internet service providers, to
interconnect at any feasible point within the 700MHz licensee's
wireless network.
What does all this mean? Don Reisinger speculated on c/net news,
if the FCC agrees to the terms, Google will definitely win the
auction. Once its wins, its executives will soon realize (as if
they haven't already) that this spectrum can go through walls
and reach just about anywhere. Even better, it'll create a
speedy broadband connection.
Within no time, Google will announce that wireless will be made
available to the public through its system. After all, it did it
in San Francisco, why won't it do it all over the country? In
effect, Google would run a "third broadband pipe."
Google could single handedly change the cell phone world
FOREVER!
Not bad for a reported $4.6 billion deal, huh?
By the way, check out Googles new free 411 service!
1-800-466-4411 !
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