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Speculation on Google's Gphone Continues.
The speculation on on Google Gphone continues. Lehman Brothers
reported that we could see a Gphone by February 2008. However,
Google has refused to confirm any plans for the GPhone
One speculation is that Google won't be making a physical
mobile phone, but instead creating a Linux-based operating
system and software which could theoretically work on a large
number of mobile phones.
According to a report in The New York Times, GPhone will
be an unprecedented marriage of online advertising and mobile
internet, in software that can be downloaded onto a phone,
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The operating system will rival software like Microsoft's
Windows Mobile, which comes built in to many phones already
on the market.
But while Microsoft charges mobile phone companies a licensing
fee for the system, Google will rely on advertising to turn
a profit, the newspaper claims.
(October 11, 2007)
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