Cellphones: Digitimes Reconfirms gPhone

from Gizmodo by Brian Lam

Digitimes has a quick bit on the gPhone, saying it is definitely coming out, sourcing factory workers, who may very well have the GPhone innards in their. We already knew this, from Crunchgear’s HTC insider. They talk about whether or not EDGE or 3G will be on the phone, but that looks more like a hedge than any specific information. My two cents on HTC — I know that key individuals inside the company were severely disappointed with Windows Mobile 6, so the idea of a Linux and Google powered OS running on HTC’s heralded hardware is really one I’ll buy in to. [DigiTimes]

Google is working on a mobile OS, and it’s due out shortly

from Engadget by Ryan Block

Can it be true? Is the Googlephone nigh at hand? Not that we haven’t been hearing this time after time (after time after time, etc.), but we’ve actually got some hot news from a number of very trustworthy sources about Google’s plans for the mobile space. Namely, Google’s mobile device platform is well on its way, and will be announced in the very near future.

We understand that the “Gphone OS” (our name for it, not theirs) began development after Google’s very quiet 2005 acquisition of mobile software company Android, started by Danger cofounder and former-prez / CEO Andy Rubin. At Google, Andy’s team has developed a Linux-based mobile device OS (no surprise) which they’re currently shopping around to handset makers and carriers on the premise of providing a flexible, customizable system — with really great Google integration, of course.

As for the timeframe on this thing, we keep hearing Google will announce its mobile plans some time post-Labor Day (September 3rd); from what we’ve heard Google isn’t necessarily working on hardware of its own, but is definitely working with OEMs and ODMs to get them to put the Gphone OS on upcoming devices. Think of it more in terms of Windows Mobile or Palm OS (in the early days) — Google wants to supply the platform, but we don’t think they want to sell hardware. Still, don’t entirely rule out the idea. Andy Rubin knows how to make a device and put it in peoples’ hands, so nothing is impossible on the hardware side. Either way, we’re totally stoked to peep the software, we’ve been waiting for the Googlephone for years on years.

Still, we can’t help wondering what El Jobso thinks about all this. Apple has been so buddy-buddy with Google lately, especially on the iPhone — and now Apple’s mobile team is on the verge of outright competition with one of its closest partners. We know that’s how the industry works, but it’s got to sting a little, you know?

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Picture of Google Phone from LG – Coming this Month

from Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal

Unlike the previous image, this is no Photoshop version of Google Phone – it’s real picture released by LG. The Google phone will be released around the iPhone launch but in Europe, not North America.

Dubbed LG-KU580, this CDMA phone provides one click access to GMail, Google Maps (the LG official says Google Earth?) and Google Web search. The design looks similar to LG “chocolate phone.”

This will be released in Europe this week with a price tag of somewhere between $300 and $400. Also included is a a 2-megapixel camera, an MP3 player and Bluetooth.

Google’s applications have been embedded into cell phones before but this is the first time its big three features – search, e-mail and mapping – have all been incorporated into one.

Full story at Korea Times [via, via]

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