Google Phone - Is It Hardware or Software?
The rumored Google phone may turn out to be software rather than hardware, according to the NYTimes article Oct. 7. They speculate that the core of Google's phone efforts is an operating system for mobile phones that will be based on open-source Linux software. Members of Google sit on the Board of Directors for the MIT Media Lab's One Laptop Per Child project (Laptop.org). The Google phone software on Linux could be an interesting tie-in for the XO's meshed technology which enables users to connect with one another without access to a network like Verizon or Cingular (AT&T). And the Google mobile operating system is likely to be free, something very attractive to children in developing nations. more