Report: Google Working on Cellphone to Compete in Mobile Market

[Azure]

http://www.digitaljournal.com/articl..._Mobile_Market

Digital Journal — According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, Google has created a prototype cellphone (GPhone?) and the company plans to give free subscriptions to consumers by bundling ads with its search engine, Web browser apps and Gmail.

Google is staying very quiet on this news, but the WSJ reports the prototype cell is currently being showed to manufacturers and network operators. Reports say Google is trying to learn how to improve tech specs to make the phone a better tool for Web browsing (iPhone anyone?).

"We are partnering with almost all of the carriers and manufacturers to get Google search and other Google applications onto their devices and networks," a Google spokesperson said.

Google has so far refused to deny the report, as rumours have started circulating all over the Internet. In a statement, the company said, "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."

According to the report, Google also envisions a world where its phone service could one day be free to consumers, where subscriptions are subsidized by ad revenue.

Man, wouldn't that be amazing...

[arsenal]

Google just wants to rule the world
But it would be really cool to not have to pay for phone service.
Maybe free cable tv will be next.

[Thunderball]

I for one welcome our new Google overlords...


especially if they break into the Canadian market and kick the piss out of the gougers that have established themselves here.

[Barnes]

Imagine a world where you can call your buddy on his Google phone from your iPhone using the 700mhz spectrum and not have to give any money to Rogers, Telus or Bell.

[J pold]

Google will take over the planet

[arsenal]

Originally Posted by Barnes

Imagine a world where you can call your buddy on his Google phone from your iPhone using the 700mhz spectrum and not have to give any money to Rogers, Telus or Bell.

While watching the Flames game in HD on your new Google TV

[worth]

GOOGLEZON!!

[Burninator]

All this Google world domination talk reminds me of this Onion article.

Google Announces Plan To Destroy All Information It Can't Index

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA—Executives at Google, the rapidly growing online-search company that promises to "organize the world's information," announced Monday the latest step in their expansion effort: a far-reaching plan to destroy all the information it is unable to index.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/40076

[I-Hate-Hulse]

So if I want to make a call I have to sit through some 10 second spiel on Viagra? No thanks, I can afford $30 a month for a plan.

Adware's a pain. Can't imagine the data Google would mine from you.

[Jiggy_12]

Google already owns the world...might as well branch out more. I fully support google phone!

[Azure]

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/wireless/58645.html

The persistent rumors surrounding a Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) Latest News about Google "Gphone" have been stoked again, this time by a Wall Street Journal article that reports that Google is courting wireless operators to provide an ad-supported mobile phone service to Google-customized handsets.

The Journal article does not directly identify sources of this information, only that it's coming from "people familiar with the plans" and "who have been briefed on it."

Global domination? Heh!

[4X4]

Gimme gimme gimme.


As a large proponent of gmail, I (for two) welcome our new google overlords.


Hook it up!