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According to rampant rumors making their way across the Internet, techies are expecting an announcement from Google in the next couple of weeks regarding a cell phone of their own – a Google response to the iPhone. While the phone itself may not carry a Google brand like the iPhone does, the competitor is expected to carry the Google line of applications, from GMail to Google Maps and Google Calendar. There’s even word that Google Talk may be part of the phone, making this a cellular-unit compatible with of VoIP. That means you can use your phone to talk over cell-phone towers, or connect to the local WiFi hotspot and not burn up minutes with your provider. The latest development in the Google Phone rumors is that it may not actually be considered an iPhone-killer product. Newsfactor.com reports that the phone may be released at a loss to compete with the One Laptop Per Child project, which makes laptops available at an incredibly reasonable price: one-hundred dollars. Releasing competition for the $100 laptop might increase Google’s market share, marketing the phone toward a less tapped market. This also ties in with rumors that Google is pursuing a bandwidth spectrum bid around the 700-MHz range. Rumors are rumors, however, regardless of how many “well placed” sources sites have. This isn’t the first time a Google phone has been rumored and it hasn’t come to light yet. Some analysts are considering this rumor with the same weight as the previous ones, doubting that it will lead to the rumored first-quarter 2008 cell phone. Instead, those in disbelief of a Google phone think it would benefit the company more to optimize their applications and market them towards other providers, maintaining their software existence and continuing to avoid a hardware product.  |
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