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Motorola to Add Google to Mobiles

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the google-google-everywhere dept.

Kijori writes "Motorola has announced plans to enable users of its mobile phones to access Google's internet search engine at the touch of a single handset button, the BBC is reporting. "The US mobile phone maker said it would introduce Google's software technology to many of its new handsets. The companies said they wanted to encourage more mobile users to access the internet using their phones." While mobile-phone internet use is currently low, Google CEO Eric Schmidt is optimistic: "People are going to spend all their time on it eventually," he said."

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  1. okay. by User+956 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The companies said they wanted to encourage more mobile users to access the internet using their phones."

    Well, they could do that by offering screens with an acceptable resolution for browsing the internet. Even the *brand new* Treo 700w only has a 240x240 screen. WTF?

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    1. Re:okay. by timeOday · · Score: 4, Insightful

      The VGA (640x480, or actually 480x640) screens on PocketPCs look great. They're too wide for a phone, but a 640x240 screen, held in landscape mode, would work great on a phone in combination with a scroll wheel. From my own experience browsing on various Palm and PocketPC devices, the main thing to allow normal rendering is adequate width.

  2. No they're not by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 4, Insightful

    While mobile-phone internet use is currently low, Google CEO Eric Schmidt is optimistic: "People are going to spend all their time on it eventually," he said."

    Not at the current access rates they won't. I've used WAP once, and after getting my bill, I was through. Many people I know had the same experience with it.

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  3. google stories on slashdot? by DarkClown · · Score: 4, Insightful

    what is the record for the most google stories at the same time off the slashdot homepage?
    right now there are 3...
    wonder what the record is for any single topic having the most slash-share at a given time...