Orange/Google phone on the way?
December 18th, 2006
According to the Guardian, Orange and Google are discussing the creation of a “Google Phone”. Probably manufactured by HTC (HTC is also provding many of Windows devices for Orange), this phone should be internet oriented and optimized for browsing, as well as providing some location based services….
The phone is not expected before 2008.
Interesting, as Google was frequently considered as an operator competitor….
Some would expect this to be an “Web2.0 enabled phone”, allowing to browse existing Google wbe site. My personnal thinking is that it will be an optimized experience for mobile devices, just like what have been made in an excellent way with GoogleLoacl and Google Mail for mobile.
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1. Everything and the Mobile&hellip | January 10th, 2007 at 12:03 am
[…] Web services direct integration inside the native UI, not in the browser: this is I think really where the industry is going now…(see the google/orange phone , and all the various attempt from google mail, yahoo go and Microsoft live to offer j2me front end to their web services…the browser is NOT the mobile phone king! more on this later) […]
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