And Google could do just that. Wouldn't that be priceless for your wife to see the suggestion pop up on your phone to stop to pici up Girls Gone Wild?!? --- Roger Prokic Baltimore, Maryland USA
-=[ This email was sent from a Palm Treo 680 smartphone using ChatterEmail v3.0.8]=- -----Original Message----- From: Scandals & Animals <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, Aug 4, 2007 10:43 am Subject: Re: [Treo] Google to unveil phone of its own by next year To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [email protected] 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. >
