Predicting The Google Phone

An anonymous reader writes "Inside The GPhone: What To Expect From Google's Android Alliance (an article at Information Week) argues that you can predict what the GPhone(s) will look like very easily, simply by listing the technologies of the Open Handset Alliance partners. According to this theory, the phone will have a user interface from Sweden's TAT, VCAST-like multimedia capabilities powered by PacketVideo Corp., and an iPhone-like capacitive touch-screen, from Synaptics. Hardware-wise, it'll probably be built around Texas Instruments' OMAP processors, which enable a single-chip world phone (GSM/EDGE/GPRS). "While the GPhone won't be revolutionary, it'll connect the pieces in pleasantly new ways," argues author Alex Wolfe. Should Apple be concerned?"

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the gPhone and the iPhone are different markets

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Apple makes fashion accessories.

Google makes software that works.

There is hardly any market overlap. I mean seriously you can't use the iPhone for business, you can't use it to omgkfcbbq Instantmessage your friends. You can't use it for social networking. You can use it to show off that you paid 600 dollars for an animated MP3 player with integrated google maps, and a fun voicemail toy.

Should Prada be worried that Samsonite is comming out with a new suitcase line? No Prada sells expensive jewelry that looks like a purse, Samsonite sells luggage.

The iPhone is jewelery, it doesn't have to worry about ANY Phone competing with it.