GPhone Still In the Works At Google

Posted by Zonk on Thursday September 20, 2007 @11:09AM from the i-wish-goog-411-worked-better dept.

Technical Writing Geek writes "According to sources at a Taiwanese manufacturer, Google will definitely be launching its own branded phone. An article at DigiTimes states that the company has yet to finalize the handset's specifications, OS, production contractor and operating partners. 'TI's handset chipsets will find their way into the Google phone should the company decide to roll out an EDGE-compliant handset, but Qualcomm could turn out to be the winner if Google decides to bet on a 3G model ... However, the choice of a 3G platform might force Google to postpone the launch of the so-called Gphone to the first half of 2008 instead of the latter half of this year as expected due to the change of platform and problems related to licensing of patented technologies ...'"

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Re:The real winner by petehead · 2007-09-20 11:20 · Score: 5, Insightful

The real winner (other than Google) will be whichever service provider wins the Gphone contract.

I, for one, hope the Google doesn't sign exclusively with one carrier.
In other words... by SoapBox17 · 2007-09-20 11:39 · Score: 4, Insightful

An article at DigiTimes states that the company has yet to finalize the handset's specifications, OS, production contractor and operating partners.
In other words, they have not finalized anything. Which is basically the definition of vaporware.
Re:Data collection by hc5duke · 2007-09-20 11:41 · Score: 4, Insightful

Think of all the data they could collect but owning the platform, they could mine where your contacts live how often you talk to each of them, all sorts of usagine information not relating to the phone depending on the feature set. This seems like a data miner's mother lode.
RIM already has that capability with BlackBerry.