Is Google About To Stab Apple in the Back With Google Phone?

Reports out of India suggest that Google will be releasing their rumored “Google Phone” worldwide in two weeks. The report is questionable for a number of reasons, the first of would probably have to be that it is only coming out of India, and the second of which is the unlikelihood that Google would stab their tech buddy Apple in the back by releasing a phone so soon after iPhone.

Maybe Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt sits on Apple’s Board of Directors just so he could eavesdrop on conversation Steve Jobs was having when the iPhone was still in development. Now THAT would be a story.

While the two-week timeline may be very questionable, it does seem to be fairly well assumed that Google is going to release a cellphone at some point in the future – and that it might even be free thanks to advertisements that would run on it. Also fairly likely is a phone from Microsoft, which may or may not be a ZunePhone.

I see it now: in 2010 the three biggest selling cellphones in the U.S. are going to be the iPhone, the gPhone, and the zPhone – all made by crossovers from the computer/Internet industries. While there will still be the majority of the population using cellular technology – a sizeable portion will have begun using their phones with services like Skype over WiFi or WiMAX – or Google’s gNetwork. Then Microsoft will launch a competitor called Skynet (come on, is Live SkyDrive that far off?…) and Arnold will step down from his new Senate seat to fight them…

  • I'm Blackout
    http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/namaste-... gift to Indian users... free cell phones?
  • Anonymous
    I think the image you are looking for: "is Google going to shoot themselves in the foot?"
  • MG Siegler
    @I'm Blackout - hmm, that's kind of interesting, that would be quite a gift!


    @anon - yeah I'm not sure how good of an idea it is for GOOG to spread into hardware either.
  • Anonymous
    The reports claims the phone has been submitted for approval by government agencies. Yet, no reference is made to the filing documents. Even if features are kept secret the document has to be made public. I think it's just another rumor to attract website hits. Look which websites is perpetuating the half life of this without being able to verify a single thing.
  • MG Siegler
    @anon - I agree, the timing just doesn't work out for a number of reasons, but it does appear to be coming at some point.
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