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    Google-Powered Phones in 2008

    Google plan sees phones by mid-2008: report


    Tuesday, October 30, 2007
    5:09 EDT

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Web search leader Google Inc is expected to announce advanced software and services enabling handset makers to bring Google-powered phones to market by mid-2008, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

    The announcement is expected to come within the next two weeks, the newspaper reported.


    No one at Google could immediately be reached for comment.


    Google has moved rapidly over the past year to extend its reach beyond text-based, pay-per-click Web search advertising into a variety of new markets, including online video, television, radio and print advertising.


    Google has also expanded into enterprise software, which has traditionally been Microsoft Corp's domain.


    According the Wall Street Journal, the Google-powered phones are expected to meld several of its applications, including Google Maps, YouTube and Gmail.


    The ground-breaking part of the plan, according to the newspaper, is Google's aim to make the phone's software "open", right down to the operating system which controls applications and interacts with hardware.


    This will grant independent software developers access to the tools they need to build additional phone features, the Wall Street Journal said.


    (Reporting by Justin Grant)


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    open my butt. It will allow for third party apps, but that is far from open. Look at the openMoko for an example of a true open phone.

    It will be neat, but it will be supported by advertising, and it will conglomerate the phone logs with all the other info google knows about you.
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