Google Phone Details Emerge: What's Fact, What's Fiction?
First came The Wall Street Journal, then numerous weekend reports on the Google phone followed, along with alleged protoype photos leaked to Twitter. Based on all of those reports, most of them speculative, the details appear to be as follows: Google will release a Google phone early in the new year, it will be manufactured by HTC, it will be called the Nexus One, it will have a touch screen, it will have a thinner form factor than iPhone, it will be sold online directly from Google, and it will be sold unlocked, meaning no carrier constraints.
Too good to be true? Perhaps.
All Google has said officially, mind you, is that a phone exists and that employees are using it. In a Saturday post to the Google Mobile Blog called "An Android dogfood diet for the holidays," Google's Vice President of Product Management, Mario Queiroz rather cryptically "confirms" the phone:
"We recently came up with the concept of a mobile lab, which is a device that combines innovative hardware from a partner with software that runs on Android to experiment with new mobile features and capabilities, and we shared this device with Google employees across the globe.That means they get to test out a new technology and help improve it," Queiroz writes.
Google did not respond to a request for comment sent by ChannelWeb on Sunday.
The Google phone does, naturally, make sense. Google throughout 2009 has been experimenting with new technologies around communications, and along with that, it's also the creator of Android, the mobile OS that's rapidly become the year's hottest and is currently seen on a number of the season's most visible new smartphones.