I wonder how many "phone home" features will be working behind the scenes on a google phone. "Sure, load up your phone with aaaaaalllllllllll your info!"
Or as you pass an adult book store, your phone goes <BING> "Sam's Adult Emporo-rama has that copy of Cheerleaders Gone Wild you googled last week!" When is a privacy enthusiast with techno-know-how going to design a phone? ...... Original Message ....... On Sat, 4 Aug 2007 07:03:26 -0700 Paul Blumstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=270689 > >Google to unveil phone of its own by next year >ANI Saturday 4th August, 2007 > >London, Aug.3 : Popular search engine major Google is hoping to >launch a mobile phone by early next year that will allows users to >surf the Internet on the move. According to The Telegraph, the >company hopes that its "GPhone" will be as popular as the Apple >iPhone which was launched in the United States in June. > >Google services, such as its search engine, e-mail and interactive >maps, will be loaded on to the phone. > >It is thought Google will derive its revenue from the lucrative >mobile advertising market. > >Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO, was quoted by the paper as saying >recently that mobile phone adverts are "twice as profitable or more >than non-mobile phone ads because they are more personal". > >Research by Informa Telecoms and Media, a telecoms analyst, forecast >that the market for mobile advertising will be worth more than 5.4 >billion dollars a year by 2011. > >Google is believed to have signed a deal with a Taiwanese firm to >design the phone. > >The company refused to confirm any plans for the phone. > >A spokesman would only say: "Our ultimate goal is to help users >access the information they want, no matter when or where they want >it. Our users and partners want Google search and Google applications >on mobile, and we are working hard to deliver that." > >Thomas Husson, an analyst at Jupiter, a research firm, was skeptical >about the GPhone, saying that at this stage, it was just a rumor. >
