The Google Phone has replaced the iPhone. What I mean by that is all the rumors, innuendo and general nonsense that surrounded the iPhone will now be transplanted to the Google Phone.
Today’s rumor comes to us by way of the Wall Street Journal. Sometime in the next two weeks, so the rumor goes, Google will announce a suite of software and “services,” whatever those are, corroborating earlier rumors that the Google Phone won’t be a phone at all. This means that, if everything works out, cellphone makers and carriers will be able to roll out (or at least announce) phones compatible with the new Google Phone software by mid-2008.
Of particular interest to the Slashdot crowd, Google wants to make the phone completely open, letting any John Q. Public program whatever he wants.
What, Apple worry?
Google plan sees phones by mid-2008: report [Reuters/WSJ]
There is a site going up for future gphone users at http://www.gphoners.com
I’m wondering if many people have gone so far as to bet on Deutsche Telekom AG (NYSE:DT) because of their direction in consumer mobile communications. Their profits were falling for years, but now they are restructuring. Soon they will sell the iPhone in Germany and, if rumors are correct, they will sell voice and data plans for the Gphone in the US, where Local Search is already popular. They should launch their 3G network in the US sometime in 2008 as well.