Google Announces "Open Phone" Coalition, No gPhone [Updated] 225
Ponca City, We Love You writes "USA Today has an advance story on Google's plans to announce a new operating system, geared specifically for cellphones with partners that include Sprint, Motorola, Samsung and Japanese wireless giant NTT DoCoMo. Although details won't be released until later today the new G-system will be based on Linux overlaid with Java and Google hopes to have a branded device ready for worldwide shipment by spring. Mobile Web browsing is notoriously slow and Google plans to change that by providing easy access to the Internet at PC-type speeds. Google plans to basically give away the software developer tools, used by programmers to write new applications. "If you're a developer, you'll be able to develop (applications) for the new Google Phone very quickly," said Morgan Gillis of the LiMo Foundation. AT&T and Verizon Wireless are noticeably absent from the coalition not wanting to support a device that favors Google over other providers. Sprint, the No. 3 carrier, supports the coalition, but it hasn't formally agreed to make the Google Phone available to its 54 million subscribers." Update 1727 GMT by SM: It's official, Google is releasing the mobile "Android" OS in place of the Google branded mobile phone that many expected.
Google phone, long awaited (Score:5, Funny)
I, for one, welcome our new alliterative overlords.
Re:AT&T? (Score:4, Funny)
Am I getting the MacFanboySlashdotGroupThink(tm) thing right, guys?
Re:Need Women's Opinions (Score:4, Funny)
Re:AT&T? (Score:5, Funny)
WIFI (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Java on the G-phone. (Score:1, Funny)
Jeez you people are spoiled. There's not a single thing that can be announced without some whiney brat crying about how he's been slighted.
Re:Need Women's Opinions (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What version of Java? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:AT&T? (Score:3, Funny)
You may be thinking , "why not just kill the owner and stomp on the iPhone?",
well, we want to see the owner break down in tears of course !
(this is all because I can't afford one, and am stuck with a stupid Sidekick, actually)
Re:What version of Java? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:WIFI (Score:1, Funny)
Re:It's offical (Score:1, Funny)