Posted on Wednesday, November 18 2009 @ 18:56 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
First Google rolled out its Android operating system, and now it appears to company will broaden its presence in the mobile market by launching its first cell phone. TechCrunch
wrote yesterday that the Google Phone is no longer a myth, and that a big advertising push is expected in early 2010.
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.
