This isn't the Google Phone
The NYTimes article today followed yesterday's Sunday magazine article about the Googlephone. Google will not be making hardware, they will be providing phone software using open-souce linux and JAVA from Sun Microsystems to members of the Open Handset Alliance. More than just phones, hand-held touch-screen devices are predicted. Intel, an alliance member, has been promoting a new hardware category that they call Mid that is halfway between a cellphone and a laptop. Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, predicts that advertising on mobile phones was likely to eventually bring the cost of making calls to zero. That might not include AT&T and Verizon which together account for 52 percent of the wireless market in the US.