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Google Android Phone Prototype Surfaces

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:27:49 GMT

Google's Android mobile platform will be demonstrated at Mobile World Congress, formerly 3GSM, on a Texas Instruments-powered handset, according to news reports. TI is one of the many manufacturers backing the linux-based platform and the first to show a working model to the public at the telecommunications trade show.

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Exclusive Screenshots of first Googlephone app

Mapper99 — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:27:49 GMT

Remember WhatsOpen.com, the stealth search startup that piqued Google cofounder Sergey Brin's interest last month? Brin was so intrigued he told the founders to keep the company hush-hush. Now, however, a source has leaked screenshots of WhatsOpen's secret project. The company has a Web application which shows users nearby stores and their operating hours -- "what's open." But I'm told by a source that WhatsOpen has also written the first wireless app for Google's new Android operating system. (You may know Android better as the software behind the still-mythical Googlephone.) Demo screenshots after the jump.

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gPhone Details Leaked gPhone OS Codenamed Android, Is Full OS With SDK?

Mapper99 — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:27:49 GMT

CNet is reporting that as part of Monday's big press conference, Google will unveil their iPhone killer gPhone OS, tentatively codenamed Android. Sources are calling the OS a "a complete mobile-phone software stack" that will be followed shortly after by a SDK (Translation: this isn't just an ad system and will have more than a bunch of lame web apps).

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WSJ: Google to Announce Phone Plans on Monday

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:27:49 GMT

Previously, we predicted the so-called Google Phone (gPhone) would be nothing more than a bundle of existing Google mobile apps loaded on a standard handset(s). On Friday, the Wall Street Journal seemed to agree with that assertion.

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"Looks like a Googlism" - another G-Phone rumour from India

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:27:49 GMT

Quoting "inside sources" for the tipoff, TheIndiaStreet says the next Google phone will be built by e28. The smartphone includes WiFi wireless, and the report seems to be particularly impressed by the wording of the e28 web site blurb:

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Google to Announce Cell Phone Within Weeks

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:27:49 GMT

Consumer Electronics Show Tech Tuesday NEWS ARCHIVE HOT TOPICS Video: FOX NEWS FLASH FOX News Election Coverage Celebrity Gossip SECTION MAP SEE MORE - Cybersecurity - Video Gaming - Personal Technology - Patents and Innovation Send news tip to FOXNews.com SUBMIT FOXNEWS.COM HOME > TECHNOLOGY Report: Google to Announce Cell Phone Within Weeks Tuesday, October 30, 2007 E-Mail Print Digg This! del.icio.us More details have come to light about the all-but-certain Google phone. The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that the search-engine giant plans a series of announcements over the next two weeks about Google mobile-phone software, which would bundle together most Google applications — search, maps, YouTube, instant-messaging — on a mobile platform.

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News analysis Searching for the Google phone is a lot like hunting for Bigfoot.

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:27:49 GMT

Rumors of a Google phone, or "Gphone" for short, have circulated since late 2004 and hit a fever pitch over the last few months, according to a handy timeline on the Search Engine Land blog.

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Analysts share predictions on Google phone

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:27:49 GMT

Will Google announce its much-rumored cell phone today? If so, analysts expect it not to be an actual handset but a bundle of software and infrastructure systems. Based on patents and other filings, analysts also predict the phone will be advertising-supported and feature tools such as search, mapping and instant messaging. CNET (10/24)

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Google's GPhone strategy could keep user costs low

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:27:49 GMT

SEATTLE — Google's (GOOG) widely anticipated — and top secret — GPhone mobile phone project could trump Apple's (APPL) glitzy iPhone — by going low cost and low tech, tech analysts say.

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Google to ship 50,000 Gphones

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:27:49 GMT

Pssst, here’s the latest Google rumor: A UBS analyst has confirmed that Taiwanese handset manufacturer HTC will ship about 50,000 cell phones (Gphones)running on a mobile operating system made by the Mountain View, Calif.-based search giant by the end of this year.

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