Google phone rumor, end of 2007?

Katie Fehrenbacher, Wednesday, April 18, 2007 at 8:27 AM PT Comments (5)

A report from Digitimes (via Engadget) says the Google phone is coming from HTC, as early as the end of 2007. If that’s really true, I’m not sure which I want more, iPhone or Google phone.

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April 18th, 2007
9:33 AM PT
Nick Hawkins said:

I’m not understanding the appeal of either phone. My T-Mobile MDA can already play MP3s, videos, and use Google Maps and has a Gmail client.

Of course I could be terribly wrong. The RAZR from Motorola is a crap phone, but the form factor made it worth buying, whereas I didn’t like the RF, the UI and other things.

I’ll wait and see - the question is if Google is releasing phones with their branding, are they selling them from a particular vendor or are they going to go and try being a MVNO?

April 18th, 2007
12:48 PM PT
Jason said:

I understand what Apple is bringing to the mobile phone market: The Apple experience. Better UI, better features, Apple product appeal. What are the core values at Google that they’re going to bring to this market that are so compelling? I don’t get it.

April 18th, 2007
8:43 PM PT
pwb said:

I’m not sure I would be all that optimistic about Google’s consumer electronic design prowess.

April 19th, 2007
11:56 AM PT
pake said:

Goog’s got guys like Andy Rubin (Danger, WebTV, General Magic, Apple) working on the phone. Assuming Goog’s letting Andy’s team do their thing, it’ll be a good consumer device.

August 24th, 2007
7:28 AM PT

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