Google gPhone to follow Apple iPhone success?
July 31st, 2007 by SteveAt the Apple iPhone’s launch this year Steve Jobs announced a number of web services would be available from Google and the search giant has confirmed that yet more services will be revealed in the future. Perhaps this collaboration has inspired Google to examine the financial benefits of producing it’s own phone.
Or perhaps this has been their plan since launching their own generic mobile web services.
Either way Big G seems to have determined that the risk of taking on Apple’s ubergadget is worth it.
Rumours are coming from AppleInsider that HTC has been approached to produce Linux-based devices operating on T-mobile’s network initially (though given the time it’s taken for hackers to crack iPhone’s network monopoly how long will that last?). The Wall Street Journal has quoted a ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’ budget for the project.Google’s response has been non-commital to say the least:
What our users and partners are telling us is that they want Google search and Google applications on mobile, and we are working hard every day to deliver that.
Last month, Google said that it may bid for mobile radio spectrum licenses in the US which may indicate ambitions to create it’s own mobile network. Google said it wanted to ensure that all customers could buy any mobile phone and have it connect to the full capability of the internet.
We shall see.
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