For Google, Advertising and Phones Go Together – New York Times
Google wants to extend its dominance of online advertising to the mobile Internet, a small market today, but one that is expected to grow rapidly. It hopes to persuade wireless carriers and mobile phone makers to offer phones based on its software, according to people briefed on the project. The cost of those phones may be partly subsidized by advertising that appears on their screens.
Google is expected to unveil the fruit of its mobile efforts later this year, and phones based on its technology could be available next year.
Some analysts say that the Google project’s affect on the wireless industry is not likely to be as profound, at least initially, as that of Apple’s iPhone, whose revolutionary look and features have redefined consumer expectations for mobile phones.
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R
Told you so. :-)
Not only the cost of the phone, but also the cost of GPRS may come down.
Now, imagine the potential of VoIP then….!
Ranga
Told you so. :-)
Not only the cost of the phone, but also the cost of GPRS may come down.
Now, imagine the potential of VoIP then….!
Btw, I’m still blocked. The problem is the spam filter on wordpress. A lot of people are complaining.
Laurent Elder
Although I think the g-phone will have an impact on mobile telephony, the idea of introducing open source to the mobile world actually comes from open moko ( http://www.openmoko.org/ and http://www.openmoko.com/ see also the article in the Economist http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9531007 ). It’s already out for developers and will be available for consumers next month. It has wifi, gprs, gps and scores of applications being developed for it.
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