Google Phone

Google Phone

An interesting topic probably, but don't get too excited about it. You will not find any mobile phones in the market with a Google logo stick or printed.

So, what is Google Phone anyway?
Google has a new team to focus on developing software for the mobile phones, which Google will ask mobile phones makers to use the new software for their products. This new software is based on Linux, and surely it is open. The openness will allows anyone to create or contribute more new features to make the mobile phones more and more interesting to use.

The initiative is lead by somebody who are an architect/engineer who has proved adept at designing highly integrated hardware and software. He is Mr Rubin, which previously worked for Apple, and is now putting his team together to make the so called Google Phone to debut in market in 2008.

Google's move to enter the mobile/wireless industry will be a challenge for Microsoft, as buyers will wait from buying smart phone with Microsoft Windows Mobile acts as the operating system, or probably slow the iPhone selling. Let's see how this Google Phone will eat Microsoft and others in the next 12 months times. And hopefully the mobile phones' price will drop significantly as the price can be subsidized by advertisers (via Google).

Google phone will appear in coming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Google has not booth in the expo, but managed to shadow the entire events.