Rumor: Google Phone Coming Soon! Canada Too?
All this time Google has claimed that they are not in the process of building cellphone hardware. They were content supplying the Android OS to hardware manufacturers. Well, that seems to have changed as TechCrunch is reporting that an actual Google Phone will be imminent:
Way more interesting are the rumors we’ve been hearing for months about a pure Google-branded phone. Most of our sources have unconfirmed information, which we describe below. But there are a few things we have absolutely confirmed: Google is building their own branded phone that they’ll sell directly and through retailers. They were long planning to have the phone be available by the holidays, but it has now slipped to early 2010. The phone will be produced by a major phone manufacturer but will only have Google branding (Microsoft did the same thing with their first Zunes, which were built by Toshiba).
There won’t be any negotiation or compromise over the phone’s design of features – Google is dictating every last piece of it. No splintering of the Android OS that makes some applications unusable. Like the iPhone for Apple, this phone will be Google’s pure vision of what a phone should be.
Food for thought, eh? If there’s one company that has the cash for R&D of their own cellphone to compete with Apple, it would be Google. If Google actually is building their own branded smartphone, it would be a massive shift from Google’s traditional online-only presence. I can’t wait to see what Google has in store.
Some might say Google is going to give away the phone, or make it very cheap. Imagine the Google Voice integration with the Google Phone. Too bad Canada doesn’t have Google Voice yet. Once again, I can see Canada getting such a phone in a year or two later. Welcome to the Great White North, eh?
Any predictions or desires out there?
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