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Google Phone a Dream?
8-21-2008 |
Following the release of the iPhone 3G attention has turned to the next eagerly awaited device, the Google Phone. Google isn’t going to be building a device of its own. The device will be made by HTC, but will use the name ‘Google Phone’. |
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Over last few weeks there were reports that the device is delayed till 2009.
These reports were followed by more reports saying the device would show up in
September, ahead of its planned fourth quarter 2008 launch date. The New York
Times is confirming some of the rumors, though the story is scant on greater
details, and parts of the story have been reported in bits-and-pieces. Just to
recap: • It will be made by HTC, well-known for making Windows Mobile
phones. • It will be called Dream. • It is a smartphone with a full
five-row keyboard and has a touch screen. • It will be sold by T-Mobile. No
surprise then that it’s pursuing an Apple-imitating App store strategy. •
Qualcomm is working with five other phone makers. Sprint, another carrier
who had signed up for this device, is absent and isn’t making any big
announcements just yet. AT&T and Verizon are giving it the pass for now,
too, it seems. The Google phone was announced in November 2007 after being a
subject of intense speculation. Some developers have been increasingly
frustrated with the Google Android platform. HTC isn’t quite well known
for making phones that are sleek like the new iPhone. Its touch efforts with
Windows Mobile are bearable at best, and not even close to the responsiveness of
iPhone and Samsung Instinct. It is hoped that Rich Miner, who is a
keynote at Mobilize, a conference about the mobile web, will shed some light on
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