December 13, 2009 at 11:50 pmGoogle Phone 2: Return (Update)
About a year after the release of the Android operating system, Google, apparently, is going to release its own smartphone with its own system. On sale in North America, the smartphone should appear in January .
Google employees received smartphones for testing. The Wall Street Journal calls the device "Nexus One" (development name).
HTC received an order for production: a company that has been developing and producing smartphones with Android for a long time, and, I must say, very successfully. Nexus will be sold immediately with the latest version of the system 2.1.
Reportedly, Google will sell the smartphone itself, directly, without the usual Western agreement with a mobile operator and sim lock, which significantly distinguishes it from Apple's competitor, the iPhone.
Update Features:
1 GHz Snapdragon processor
3.7 "capacitive OLED touchscreen
5 mp 720p camera
2 noise
cancelling microphones Trackball
3D accelerometer
proximity / light sensor
Wi-Fi / Bluetooth / FM (802.11n support may be possible!)
Compass
Estimated price: $ 199 , which is significantly lower than the price for any comparable device.
The exact technical details are still unknown, but it is assumed that the smartphone will be technically similar to HTC Bravo / Passion.
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Eldar Murtazin says , that the google phone is a myth.
Heredetailed article, not shining, unfortunately, with logic.
In my opinion , it would not hurt Google to tear itself away from the pure development of software and start selling its system with "its own" hardware.
Many companies, such as Nokia or Vodafone, do not like and do not want to see Android on their products.
The fact is that the android prevents them from developing and selling their services to customers. Namely, services that it is difficult / impossible to refuse the buyer, give the greatest profit, although they are inconvenient, often not needed and generally inhibit progress. To start developing your services on the basis of Android, as Motorola does, is to give up control over your product, even if partially.
Therefore, vodafone makes 360 together with Samsung, and Nokia is trying to get any Ovi in any way.
Even looking at HTC, you can see that the obsolete and sharply lost popularity of WinMobile is still put on smartphones with the best hardware and the latest developments. Naturally, HTC gets decent money for this from Microsoft, which still can’t reach the 7th version.
What remains to Google, how not to get around all these parasites with their unsuccessful designs, and start selling excellent hardware directly to people for almost cost? Someone will call it aggressive marketing, but this fight will definitely benefit us.
Of course, Samsung, Motorola, LG, etc., as members of the Open Handset Alliance, will be annoyed, but Android has already managed to win the hearts of people, in the AppStore thousands of successful applications - where will they go? They will begin to develop their system, better than the iPhone and Android? Do not tell, if Nokia and Microsoft are not doing well.
Google needs one good exclusive partner and sale on the Internet - and then Google Voice, and in general any development that people need and do not need mobile operators, will appear on the market without discussion.
Google employees received smartphones for testing. The Wall Street Journal calls the device "Nexus One" (development name).
HTC received an order for production: a company that has been developing and producing smartphones with Android for a long time, and, I must say, very successfully. Nexus will be sold immediately with the latest version of the system 2.1.
Reportedly, Google will sell the smartphone itself, directly, without the usual Western agreement with a mobile operator and sim lock, which significantly distinguishes it from Apple's competitor, the iPhone.
Update Features:
1 GHz Snapdragon processor
3.7 "capacitive OLED touchscreen
5 mp 720p camera
2 noise
cancelling microphones Trackball
3D accelerometer
proximity / light sensor
Wi-Fi / Bluetooth / FM (802.11n support may be possible!)
Compass
Estimated price: $ 199 , which is significantly lower than the price for any comparable device.
The exact technical details are still unknown, but it is assumed that the smartphone will be technically similar to HTC Bravo / Passion.
Inside - also ( update )
/ update
Eldar Murtazin says , that the google phone is a myth.
Heredetailed article, not shining, unfortunately, with logic.
In my opinion , it would not hurt Google to tear itself away from the pure development of software and start selling its system with "its own" hardware.
Many companies, such as Nokia or Vodafone, do not like and do not want to see Android on their products.
The fact is that the android prevents them from developing and selling their services to customers. Namely, services that it is difficult / impossible to refuse the buyer, give the greatest profit, although they are inconvenient, often not needed and generally inhibit progress. To start developing your services on the basis of Android, as Motorola does, is to give up control over your product, even if partially.
Therefore, vodafone makes 360 together with Samsung, and Nokia is trying to get any Ovi in any way.
Even looking at HTC, you can see that the obsolete and sharply lost popularity of WinMobile is still put on smartphones with the best hardware and the latest developments. Naturally, HTC gets decent money for this from Microsoft, which still can’t reach the 7th version.
What remains to Google, how not to get around all these parasites with their unsuccessful designs, and start selling excellent hardware directly to people for almost cost? Someone will call it aggressive marketing, but this fight will definitely benefit us.
Of course, Samsung, Motorola, LG, etc., as members of the Open Handset Alliance, will be annoyed, but Android has already managed to win the hearts of people, in the AppStore thousands of successful applications - where will they go? They will begin to develop their system, better than the iPhone and Android? Do not tell, if Nokia and Microsoft are not doing well.
Google needs one good exclusive partner and sale on the Internet - and then Google Voice, and in general any development that people need and do not need mobile operators, will appear on the market without discussion.