For the Christmas season, it’s definitely too late. But condense the rumors that next year will have a new phone from Google on the market.
Apple, Palm Pre, BlackBerry – so far had any smartphone offers its advantages, but always there was a catch.
At Apple, the design is perfect and there are lots of interesting add-on programs, but restricts the software to some customers, forcing him also to a telephone company that would otherwise be the many critical people do not hold with the pliers. BlackBerrys have slept through the step into the mobile surfing experience, which makes it PalmPre some truth, but the phone comes without the coolness factor of the iPhone, and therefore there is a lack of a similar number of practical Apps.
The new Google Phone will give new impetus, because the project will come quiet possible everything from one source, device, software, telephone service – all made by Google. And since Google in the future not as a great device, wants to act in telecommunications or software vendor, but should only count on the enthusiastic users surfing with the new device even more and stop by here no more to the Google ads, at least there are grounds Crop out the hope that Google to babble customers no untoward phone contracts and also the surfing as little as possible want.
The analyst Ashok Kumar of Northeast Securities is that the Google phone quiet possible built by the Taiwanese phone manufacturer HTC and have a processor from Qualcomm. The phone will reportedly have a large touchscreen display, and the processor should be roughly twice as powerful as that of Apple’s latest model 3GS. On it, the current version of the Android phone software could run – Codename flan – and the whole is said to even 3-D gaming possible at a pace that can compete with the big consoles.
Maybe Google does not use any cooperation with a telephone service provider. This could mean in this case, the smartphone focuses on Internet telephony comes from quiet possible without bundled phone and lets customers make calls over the data connection. Many people know this from service providers such as Skype. The so-called Voice over IP (VoIP) would mean free or very cheap phone calls. According to Michael Arrington, of TechCrunch on could be the first of the reported cell phone plans, the Google phone more like a mobile computer with VoIP integration as a recall to a conventional phone.
Google itself offers in the U.S., since a while a program called Google Voice, which allows you to manage various phone calls and telephone numbers of central and redirect to a single number. With this one phone number are also free calls to no matter what machine in the U.S. – landline or mobile – is possible. And the tariffs for international calls are also quite low. In addition, you can call to translate into text on the mailbox and can send an e-mail and send as many SMS as you want. Free. No wonder then that many telecommunications providers Google Voice want to see on their phones. Thus, for example, AT & T wants the approval of Google Voice on Apple’s iPhone avoid at all costs.
If Google is pushing ahead with Internet telephony, which could lead to some political trouble themselves. The U.S. telecom supervision FCC has already announced in September, to consider whether such prohibitions in the future may no longer be possible. In the EU it has become such an attitude in the current telecom novella not be able to say. Nevertheless, critical demands are increasing, why should different rules apply for mobile phones than computers: Here Microsoft is finally punished even if it’s Internet Explorer as the default browser can deliver.
Another question is whether Google Android will take advantage of the improved software exclusively, or even other manufacturers is available. Motorola is based around its current product offensive heavily on this operating system. Here, again threatening trouble with the telecom companies, especially since many of them have pushed their Android phones with the help of industry subsidies in the market: Cheap machines are a marketing ploy to attract and retain customers on expensive phone contracts. Although interest has increased in Android in the past, the market share is still scarce at four percent.
What in the reverse could mean, however, that would eliminate subsidies for the Google phone, if it is to do with the gPhone no phone sales. What could drive the price of the device in the air.
The critical question will be, however, is how much freedom Google users in their choice of programs. If you can surf with other search engines, and how easy it will be to synchronize data from other providers with the Google Phone to? Or is threatening similar trouble as the other manufacturers? Do you have to register and what information Google collects about the surfing behavior of their phone and phone customers? The potential of a service provider are as well known, large, ranging from complete blockage to the technical obstacles that make uncomfortable about synchronizing or offer additional features for registered customers only.
