Google Announces "Open Phone" Coalition, No gPhone [Updated]

Ponca City, We Love You writes "USA Today has an advance story on Google's plans to announce a new operating system, geared specifically for cellphones with partners that include Sprint, Motorola, Samsung and Japanese wireless giant NTT DoCoMo. Although details won't be released until later today the new G-system will be based on Linux overlaid with Java and Google hopes to have a branded device ready for worldwide shipment by spring. Mobile Web browsing is notoriously slow and Google plans to change that by providing easy access to the Internet at PC-type speeds. Google plans to basically give away the software developer tools, used by programmers to write new applications. "If you're a developer, you'll be able to develop (applications) for the new Google Phone very quickly," said Morgan Gillis of the LiMo Foundation. AT&T and Verizon Wireless are noticeably absent from the coalition not wanting to support a device that favors Google over other providers. Sprint, the No. 3 carrier, supports the coalition, but it hasn't formally agreed to make the Google Phone available to its 54 million subscribers." Update 1727 GMT by SM: It's official, Google is releasing the mobile "Android" OS in place of the Google branded mobile phone that many expected.

Comments

Google phone, long awaited

[BadAnalogyGuy]

The new operating system will be called GNU/Goo/Do/Mo/SpriSamSun/Linux.

I, for one, welcome our new alliterative overlords.

Re:AT&T?

[morgan_greywolf]

But that's different. Apple isn't Evil(tm) and Steve Jobs is a Demigod(tm). The iPhone is an innovative product that will revolutionize the world! Thanks to Jobs' powerful vision, we will all live in one happy Apple Utopia(tm)!

Am I getting the MacFanboySlashdotGroupThink(tm) thing right, guys?

Re:Need Women's Opinions

[somersault]

I'm a man, you insensitive clod!

Re:AT&T?

[elrous0]

Why is it that, every time I see a true Apple fanboy post here, I always get an image of James Earl Jones in "Conan the Barbarian," beckoning one of his followers to come to him by walking off a cliff?

WIFI

[halfmanhalfpint]

So when Google gets into WIFI hotspots will they call them G-spots?

Re:Need Women's Opinions

[Anonymous Coward]

Also, please leave age/sex/location? Kthx.

Re:What version of Java?

[eric2hill]

It gets better! Sun also has the Sun SPOT embedded development kit. Hopefully Google and Sun will collaborate and come up with the G-SPOT.

Re:AT&T?

[djdavetrouble]

Which reminds me, a good application for this new phone would be a pop up laser that kills iphones dead to death.
You may be thinking , "why not just kill the owner and stomp on the iPhone?",
well, we want to see the owner break down in tears of course !

(this is all because I can't afford one, and am stuck with a stupid Sidekick, actually)

Re:What version of Java?

[aichpvee]

Will this be called JavaXP?