The Google Phone?

VE3OGG writes "There has been ample hype over the last several years that Apple's iPhone was just around the corner. (Though a product named iPhone was just recently released by Cisco / Linksys.) Well, while Apple fans continue to salivate at the thought of a phone powered by the company-of-cool, the index-everything-while-doing-no-evil company may be setting itself up to produce their own Google phone in partnership with Orange."

Hype Killing Sentence

[PoloniumSandwich]

From the article:

The device would not be revolutionary: manufactured by HTC, a Taiwanese firm specialising in smart phones and Personal Data Assistants (PDAs), it might have a screen similar to a video iPod.

Can't wait to get my hands on one!

The first thing I'd do

[Anonymous Coward]

Type in 'pizza' and press "I'm Feeling Lucky".

Re:Big Brother Google

[Sciros]

Replace humanity with doppelgangers and by the time the few that are left figure out it will be far too late. Unless those few are ninjas; then the ownage that ensues will be amazing.

Re:Big Brother Google

[Anonymous Coward]

So they know our credit card info, billing addresses, real names, etc from Google Checkout, they read our emails (Gmail), they know what we've been searching for (Google Search), they have access to our images (Picasa), access to our videos (Google Video), access to our IM habits (Google Talk), they track our movements (Google Earth), and now they want to monitor our telephone conversations? Next we'll be hearing that Cheney's been having secret meetings with Schmidt. . . . :P

Don't forget that they sell to us our tinfoil hats too.

Names are important.

[zenmojodaddy]

I move that it be called the Gone. Which gives ample opportunity to display context-sensitive Gone-Ads. At least it would if I didn't have this dang restraining order...

Re:iPhone could still be the name for Apple's phon

[korbin_dallas]

I better go trademarkthese names then eh?

iYack.
iChattyCathy.
iMultiMediaDevice.
iVoice.
iCell.
iCall.
iTalk.
iTunesTalk.
iTele.
iTelephone.
iAnnoyance.
iBrick.
iPea, which of course goes right along with iPod.
iFone, duh?
iExpensive.

Re:"Two most powerful brands"?

[QRDeNameland]

What surprises me is that no one had yet commented that there may soon be a valid comparison between Apples and Oranges.

Microsoft fiddles with Zune while...

[PatPending]

...Google is racing ahead.

Madly

[Brandybuck]

Google madly searching for a way to generate revenue before their stockholders regain consciousness...

Re:If this is true...

[FLEB]

So the best thing to do is start rumors about things you have no interest in whatsoever, to have no chance or intent of competing with your own hype.

So, Google Automotive-- what's the word?