The Googlephone about to be launched
Google is gearing up for an all-out assault on the mobile-phone market that will include a new, Google-branded handset and the first Google phone service.
The Googlephone promises to be one of the most advanced smartphones, with a large touchscreen display and a processor almost twice as fast as the one iPhone. It will probably be the first phone to run a new version of Google’s Android software, offering high-speed 3-D gaming.
Google Voice also uses sophisticated voice recognition to turn voicemails into emails, can block telemarketing calls automatically and offers free text messaging.
One of Google’s challenges will be to link the phone to mobile networks so that the company’s services can be offered not just over wi-fi-connected broadband, but also over a 3G link to the internet, resulting in a real call-from-anywhere device.
Can Google have its cake and eat it? We may not have too long a wait before finding out, because experts are predicting that the Googlephone will be launched in the US early next year.
