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Google Says "We're Not Doing a Mobile Phone"
thefickler writes "A top Google executive has denied outright that the company is developing a mobile phone. Last week rumors were flying after a Google official speaking in Spain said that the company was looking into offering a mobile phone; and British phone analyst Richard Windsor claimed that during CeBIT Google staff confirmed that a Google mobile phone was being developed. However, Alan Eustace, senior vice president of engineering and research, has now said 'We're not doing a mobile phone, I'd like to find something that is broader, rather than do yet another mobile device.'"
Although the article links to another about an Australian telco executive attacking the iPhone that's quite entertaining.
What the Spanish official said, actually, is that somebody in Google, with the 20% time allotted to pet projects, was working on something or other related to cell phones.
It's just a BloJJ
No, the billions don't come from nowhere. They come from companies and economies growing. Do you think that there has always been, and always will be, 6 trillion dollars circulating in the world? For the Great Britian's economy to grow does it require the U.S.A.'s economy to fall? Look into capitalism, and positive-sum games.
Computers allow humans to make mistakes at the fastest speeds known, with the possible exception of tequila and handguns
Except economics is not, nor has it ever been, a zero-sum game.
Actually MSFT is very bad at it, just look at the Zune and Vista mess.
http://www.rense.com/general79/wdx1.htm
You want the O2 Jet then. It has 540 hours standby and 9 hours 50 minutes talk time (so almost 4 hours more than your request).
They do. The problem is that the majority of people on Slashdot who say "I wish I could get a phone that only does X and Y" haven't bothered to do five minutes of research.
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