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Exec Confirms Google Phone

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the let-the-battle-begin dept.

cyberianpan writes "The head of Google in Spain and Portugal has confirmed that Google is working on a mobile phone. "Some of the time the engineers are dedicated to developing a mobile phone," This could be the 20% free time development but publicizing that would be stupid. Obviously this phone could link in with Google Earth/Maps... it is a marketers dream for targeted advertising."

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  1. why assume it's google's phone? by flynt · · Score: 4, Interesting

    why can't the phone they're working on be the iphone? also, i wouldn't say the "head of google in portugal" making an off-handed comment really counts as "publicizing" it.

  2. Google functionality by Sunburnt · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Does this mean that, in an unfamiliar town, I can just type "pizza," hit "I Feel Lucky," and be connected with the most popular pizza joint in town based on call volume?

    Really, I'm not being entirely sarcastic here. I wind up in strange places, and this feature would be more helpful than calling 411. Now, how to implement...

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  3. Re:Hate to break it to ya... by teknopurge · · Score: 4, Interesting

    i think the OPs point was that since google and apple have become so buddy-buddy, odds are good that google's resources are working on apps for the iPhone, pehaps a branding of it.

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  4. Re:Best Feature Evar by walt-sjc · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If I'm on the go and in the mood for Pizza, it would be cool to not only find a pizza place and order (like Jobs with the iphone / starbucks demo), but if google displayed a couple ads from the nearest pizza place that showed the specials, or offered me a 10% discount, then it would be worth it.

    IMHO, I would like to see some kind of WiMAX / VoIP phone come to market. The traditional cell phone market / technology sucks. For metropolitan areas, this should be viable. If I'm in the middle of nowhere, I can always use one of the prepaid phones, and setup my voip service to forward to it if my gPhone is not reachable (or maybe the gPhone falls back to old-GSM mode...)