Google Skunkworks Working on 'X Phone,' Reports WSJ

The Wall Street Journal says that Google is not quite content to be just a name printed on certain Android phones, and has set some of the cellphone engineers from Google-owned Motorola Mobility to work on a high-end project known internally as the 'X phone.' The rumored phone, says the article, "is due out sometime next year," and is meant as a technology flagship for Android phones, incorporating more innovative features than typical phones, such as advanced gesture recognition. Some of those features, like a flexible screen, have reportedly already been dropped from the design, though. If the X Phone materializes, a tablet is expected to follow.

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Re:The real long term plans unfold...

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Samsung, for one, innovates: they leave wide-open memory access holes, enabling third-party applications to do anything with the user's phone, potentially going beyond what the user intended them to do.