Could Google kill the cellphone industry?
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Blog: With full leasing ownership of the 700MHz spectrum, Google will try to effectively cripple the cell phone industry.  Before you scoff and say this is a bunch of garbage, consider this: Google will only offer the $4.6 billion if the government agrees to th
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Investor's Business Daily - Femtocells sounds like the next big thing in biology, but it actually could shake up wireless phone services.
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The word "smartphones" is misleading, inexact, confusing and obsolete. The general public doesn't know what "smartphone" means, the experts disagree and vendors can't use it. It's time to drop it.
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It joins the battle for mobile users with Google.
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If companies like Apple Inc. or even Italian fashion designer Prada SpA can design a mobile phone, why not Google Inc.?
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The cellphone industry went to Barcelona to âshow off the latest and greatest phonesâ and, once again, hardware took center stage. But, Victoria Shannon (New York Times) points out, âsoftware is growing in importance as smartphones, capable of accessing the Web, become more popular.â So, Shannon continues, âit was no surprise that many of the phones were iPhone clones â with touch screens, sleek flat shapes and spare software interfaces. Apple was able to make a phone that paid equal attention to the software and the hardware. And the rest of the industry was following suit here.â
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Google will do better, but don't look for the company to dominate the market anytime soon, says the company's top exec.
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Internet search giant Google unveils software it hopes will power a variety of future mobile phone handsets.
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Those who don't mind carrying a paperweight already have plenty of options for "smart" phones that do more than just make calls. The rest of us are stuck with a sad compromise between size and function.
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Analysts take guesses on how the Google phone will operate.
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The market for content and services on  cell phones is expected to grow to $150 billion by 2011, as  access to the web while on the move becomes easier and faster,  research from Informa Telecoms & Media showed.
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A few big brains in Palo Alto want to ease the corporate stranglehold on mobile communication. By Robert Strohmeyer from Wired magazine.
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Google vice president and chief Internet evangelist Vinton G. Cerf has predicted that mobile phones, not personal computers, will fuel growth of the worldwide web as countries like India snap up millions of handsets monthly.
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Blog: Industry leaders are worried that evolving technology may be getting a bad rap.
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Google has come to cellphones -- the cheap ones, not just the fancy color-screen models with Web access.
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Here&#8217;s a detailed post (widely picked up) by Simeon Simeonov about Google developing a mobile phone. Here&#8217;s the reported strategy: Apparently, Google is planning to build distribution relationships with multiple carriers by allowing them to minimize subscription and marketing costs. In other words, Google will market the phone online and carriers will fulfill. How fast can [...]
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Google's growth may be chaotic, but will it help the company take over the world?