It's been more than amusing to read all the kerfuffle about the impending release of the gPhone, Google's answer to Apple's iPhone. The rumor mill was buzzing with the idea that there was going to be some snazzy piece of mobile hardware bearing the name gPhone, or something like it. Now it is revealed that the search sovereign's cell phone plans have been something like this in rough outline: not a phone, but an open operating system that could be used as the underpinning for any number of handsets and devices. Today, Google made that official, positioning its Android operating system as the path to liberating the proprietarily partitioned cell phone world. As a result of all this, Apple's stock was down and Google's was up. To the point that pretty soon you'll have to sell the wife and kids into slavery to buy a dozen shares of Google. 'Til the bubble bursts, that is!
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» The Google Phone: How Excited Are You? from OfficeStuffer
Earlier today Google announced their new free cell phone software package that’s in development. The Google "software stack" won't be available until late 2008 but I suppose that gives people a chance to consider if this is going t... [Read More]
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