http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/ Engadget Comments for New Google Phone rumors get real specific http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/Sep 4th 2007 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/Sep 4th 2007 9:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/Sep 4th 2007 11:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/ googlephone]]>Sep 4th 2007 9:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/Sep 4th 2007 9:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/
It's funny that you even brought up the iPhone because it is far from the best phone on the market. You can't even send files over bluetooth on it, you can't receive or send SMS, you can't use mp3 files as ringtones, the phone has to be on in order for the alarm to ring, no games or Java support and lastly you can't buy it unlocked.

In terms of functionality is beaten by a good majority of phones on the market.]]>Sep 4th 2007 9:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/Sep 4th 2007 10:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/Sep 4th 2007 10:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/hahaha get a life XD]]>Sep 4th 2007 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/Sep 4th 2007 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/
But I digress. Too early to say anything now, but I don't think Google would hire HTC if they wanted to go all-out with the GPhone, their usual style when undertaking a project they're really serious about is to cut the middle man and buy out the necessary company. They did it when Google Earth came to be.]]>Sep 4th 2007 9:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/
I agree -- nothing is more annoying than Verizon crippling my bluetooth phone. I'd love to see Google take Verizon back behind the woodshed and give them a thrashing.]]>Sep 4th 2007 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/
I agree -- nothing is more annoying than Verizon crippling my bluetooth phone. I'd love to see Google take Verizon back behind the woodshed and give them a thrashing.]]>Sep 4th 2007 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/Sep 4th 2007 10:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/]]>Sep 4th 2007 9:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/Sep 4th 2007 4:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/Sep 4th 2007 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/Sep 4th 2007 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/Sep 4th 2007 10:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/
So basically the phone will just be a new ad medium for Google... I'm sure it will have google maps on it and all the Google heads will RUN out to get one... PLEASE... Lets hope the rumors are NOT TRUE and the phone will actually be something new and different than a BB/Treo rip with ads on it.]]>Sep 4th 2007 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/Sep 4th 2007 10:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/Sep 4th 2007 11:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/
plan 1) free phone, no month fee, with text ad.

plan 2) $ for the phone, monthly fee, no text ad

according to sept 1's The Economist, google gets 50cent for every click on the text ad.]]>Sep 4th 2007 10:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/So I wonder if they added a browser object to Java using webkit as the base?
Or is it all just fantasy?
]]>Sep 4th 2007 3:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/Sep 4th 2007 10:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/Sep 4th 2007 10:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/Sep 4th 2007 2:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/Sep 4th 2007 10:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/More competition = More choices]]>Sep 4th 2007 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/Sep 4th 2007 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/
If they make the service free and have it totally supported by ads that will fail miserably... try to convince the advertisers its worth their ad dollars... did we go around this block with internet service a couple of years ago?? How did that work out??? If anything Apple just showed us that if you make something cool people will pay for it.

Besides... I don't think the demographic advertisers are looking to sell their products to are 10 - 14 year old kids who get this "free for all" phone from their parents to keep their phone bill down... If I were an adsense advertiser I would want to make sure my ad dollars were not heading to these free phones... thats like trying to sell stuff to the open source fans out there... they like open source because its free... not because they like to buy stuff...]]>Sep 4th 2007 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/
http://gphone.corank.com
http://iphone.corank.com

]]>Sep 4th 2007 12:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/Sep 4th 2007 11:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/Sep 4th 2007 4:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/Sep 4th 2007 11:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/Sep 4th 2007 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/Sep 4th 2007 11:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/Sep 4th 2007 11:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/Sep 4th 2007 12:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/Sep 4th 2007 12:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/Sep 4th 2007 12:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/The photo is not blurry enough, credibility is diminished by the sharp image :^)]]>Sep 5th 2007 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/Sep 4th 2007 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/
Thing is, that in all their previous acquisitions, the buyouts were of software companies, be they AJAX applications or desktop apps relying on the web (except sketchup, and that was tied directly to Google Earth) whereas this is outside their area of expertise. I'm sure they have more network engineers and programmers and whatnot than you can poke a stick at, but a GPhone wouldn't fit into any of their core competencies (except of course the software side) and it would make sense for them to hire a contractor to do the actual hardware design for them, or assist them heavily and give them feedback on the doability of the device.

@Zach,
Are you thinking of those purple Sony walkmen they had out back when PMP screens were still monochromatic? There was a problem with those, well two actually: glare, lots of it (a friend of mine had one, it was a mirror in the sunlight), and the whole 'monochromatic else it looks like crap ' thing.

PS: Sorry if this double-posts]]>Sep 4th 2007 4:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/Sep 4th 2007 7:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/
http://gphonelife.com/2007/08/31/first-photo-of-rumored-prototype-gphone-leaked/

Total mobility and functionality abound with this model.]]>Sep 4th 2007 8:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/Sep 4th 2007 11:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/
Check my views on this at http://techtrod.wordpress.com/2007/09/04/the-gphone-whats-the-killer-feature]]>Sep 5th 2007 2:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/Sep 5th 2007 3:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/04/new-google-phone-rumors-get-real-specific/http://blog.techiezone.in/2007/08/28/google-phone-going-to-ring-in-september/]]>Sep 10th 2007 3:12PM