More Details Emerge on the Mythical Google Phone

[Jerry Raia]

It's not even going to be an MS OS which is what we DO focus on here. To me this is as amusing as a Palm phone. Perhaps the other 10 people running Linux on their PC's will like it though. In any case I predict it will be a joke just like I think the iPhone will be. We will see if I am right. What applications will even run on it? How many phone OS's are there out there now? Do we really need another one?

[Jerry Raia]

It's not even going to be an MS OS which is what we DO focus on here. To me this is as amusing as a Palm phone. Perhaps the other 10 people running Linux on their PC's will like it though. In any case I predict it will be a joke just like I think the iPhone will be. We will see if I am right. What applications will even run on it? How many phone OS's are there out there now? Do we really need another one?

[Mike Temporale]

Originally Posted by Pony99CA

But let's at least give reasons why we're bashing something (especially when so little is known about it). Or did I miss a previous story where those reasons were listed?

I guess you're not familiar with Jerry's love of Google and all their beta applications. :lol:

I find it funny that number of years ago everyone was laughing at Microsoft when they said they are going to start building a phone OS. now, every software company thinks they can do it too. I'm not much of a google fan anymore. I think that while it might be built by Samsung, that doesn't mean that it will be a Samsung based OS with a new UI. Chances are Google wants more control than that. I think Samsung is just going to be building it. Google will supply the OS and it will be in beta for decades.

[dlinker]

The following quote from the Sydney Morning Herald is from a transcript of an interview last week with Vincent Cerf - Google's Chief Internet Evangelist:

I asked about recent reports that Google had a so-called G-phone in the works and that it was collaborating with Apple on a hardware project. Was Google getting into hardware?

VC: I don't think so. On the other hand, we're very interested in the platforms that other people are building. We are quite eager to be part of the mobile revolution. People are acquiring mobile equipment which is much more elaborate that simple a telephone. Becoming an equipment manufacturer is pretty far from our business model.

From the Blog of the Journalist who interviewed Cerf:
http://blogs.smh.com.au/mashup/archives//010255.html

[Pony99CA]

Originally Posted by dlinker

The following quote from the Sydney Morning Herald is from a transcript of an interview last week with Vincent Cerf - Google's Chief Internet Evangelist:

Becoming an equipment manufacturer is pretty far from our business model.

Not that far -- they make (or at least sell) the Google Search Appliance for companies' intranets. Of course, that's a corporate thing, not a consumer device like a cell phone.

Steve