I just told Santa I wanted the iPhone for Christmas and people are saying to wait now for the Google phone! What should I do Santa?? The Internet has been buzzing about it for months, but only a select few, really know what it looks like, what it will do, and when it will hit the streets.

The Boston Globe ran a great video a few weeks ago and reported, Google is saying next to nothing about the work they're doing in their Cambridge R&D lab. Rich Miner, a Google executive sometimes described as the company's vice president of wireless but officially a "technical staff member," according to a Google spokesman,  has shown the phone prototype to a handful of Boston entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, some of whom have signed nondisclosure agreements and some of whom haven't.

Allegedly,  the Google Phone brings the power of the internet in your pocket, in a simple and intuitive device.  It combines the traditional voice and SMS capabilities of phones with all the exciting Google services from the PC such as Search, Gmail, Maps, Blogger…

The Google Phone, designed by Samsung, is a very thin and stylish handset with a large screen and a QWERTY keypad so that it provides a real internet experience.

All these internet services will be available under a simple Internet monthly flat fee, comparable to PC Broadband products, giving you transparency and control over your mobile bill.  Thanks to simple, relevant advertising, Google will even give you a 3 month discount on your mobile Internet monthly flat fee. 

The Google Phone is rumored to be 100% Java-based, through and through. Contrast this to the iPhone, which is 100% anti-Java.

Overall? Google will have the features that Apple wished they had — most of which will hinge on their strong web services presence. But Google will still envy Apple’s monopoly on lust.


In August, in case you haven't been paying attention, the old 700MHz wireless spectrum was up for auction by the federal government. And under the veil of touting an "open" platform, Google CEO Eric Schmidt announced that the company will participate in the Federal Communications Commission auction for the bandwidth--with a few minor requests for the FCC: open applications for users; open devices that will work with whichever network provider customers choose; open services that would allow for third-party resellers to acquire wireless services on a wholesale basis; and open networks, which would allow third parties, such as Internet service providers, to interconnect at any feasible point within the 700MHz licensee's wireless network.

What does all this mean? Don Reisinger speculated on c/net news, if the FCC agrees to the terms, Google will definitely win the auction. Once its wins, its executives will soon realize (as if they haven't already) that this spectrum can go through walls and reach just about anywhere. Even better, it'll create a speedy broadband connection.

Within no time, Google will announce that wireless will be made available to the public through its system. After all, it did it in San Francisco, why won't it do it all over the country? In effect, Google would run a "third broadband pipe."

Google could single handedly change the cell phone world FOREVER!
Not bad for a reported $4.6 billion deal, huh?

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