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Google phone: Will open win over closed?

by Mathew on October 16, 2008 · View Comments

There are lots of reviews of the Google phone from HTC and T-Mobile flying around, including one from Walt Mossberg of the Journal that calls the G1 a “worthy competitor” for Apple’s iPhone, and one from David Pogue at the New York Times, who correctly points out that it isn’t really *the* Google phone. It’s [...]

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Google as the saviour of everything

by Mathew on November 11, 2007 · View Comments

So TMCNet blogger Rich Tehrani says he has heard rumours that Google is going to acquire Sprint. This is a subject that others have raised as well, most often in connection with the much-hyped “Google phone” — which we now know isn’t a phone at all but an open platform. In other words, it’s even [...]

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Google: All aboard the Open train

by Mathew on November 5, 2007 · View Comments

Open cellphones, OpenSocial — it’s obvious that Google sees as its main competitive advantage a totally open (more or less) approach to data of all kinds. Just as it is trying to create a platform for the free movement of social data through OpenSocial, so it seems determined to create an open platform in the [...]

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Gphone: Third time lucky for Andy Rubin?

by Mathew on November 3, 2007 · View Comments

Fascinating piece in the Times on Andy Rubin, the guy behind the Gphone project — about which we are supposed to be getting some details on Monday (although actual devices running the Google mobile OS won’t be coming until next year sometime, supposedly). Along with the requisite geek-lord toys (retinal scanner at the door, giant [...]

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Google to Microsoft: Game on

by Mathew on October 8, 2007 · View Comments

The New York Times is reporting that the much-hyped “Google phone” isn’t going to be a dedicated device, but a mobile Linux-based operating system and suite of software that will run on phones made by others. This is more or less what many Google-watchers expected (including me — I wrote a column about the speculation [...]

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