Google appears to be preparing to market its own smartphone, a move that would intensify the company’s rivalry with Apple, whose iPhone dominates the high-end smartphone market in the United States.On Friday, Google distributed a new phone running its own Android operating software to many of its employees. On the messaging service Twitter, some Google employees described the device as a “Google phone,” renewing speculation that the company is getting ready to release a mobile phone with its own brand.To read this report in The New York Times in full, see:
www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/technology/companies/13google.htmlGoogle hints at making mobile phone [AFP]
The internet is buzzing with renewed rumours that Google will make its own smartphone, after the internet powerhouse said it was internally dabbling with a mobile device.Google workers are trying out a device that “combines innovative hardware from a partner with software that runs on Android to experiment with new mobile features and capabilities,” Google’s vice-president of product management, Mario Queiroz, said in a blog post.
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