Ok, so that headline isn’t entirely accurate.
I’ve been tracking the Google GPhone for a while and, well, it’s been a good few days since I’ve blogged anything on it. That’s because it’s getting a weeeeee bit crazy out there. The stories are flying. And they *are* stories. We’re getting to the old-wives-tales level of crazy.
Google are going mobile, there’s no doubt about that. But how? Well, it’s hugely exciting to consider the possibilities.
I think simplicity is key. Everything they’ve done in the past has been simple, simple, simple.
I don’t really want a Google handset. Well, ok, since I’m a geek, yes I do – I’d like to see Google’s take on a device and it’s interface.
As for a Google OS, again, from a geeky viewpoint, yeah, that’d be super.
But really, I just want Google Simplicity.
I want Gmail, I want Google Talk, I want access to the Google platform. I want it all to work, properly.
When I sit and consider the Google applications for mobile, well, the brilliance of them is astounding. Consider, for a moment, Google Talk integration on Blackberry. The best in the world. There isn’t, I don’t think, a better example of mobile instant messaging than Google Talk on the Blackberry.
Google Mail for Nokia — for a whole raft of mobile operating systems — is excellent. Held back only by the limitations of the device. And now, that’s where it gets interesting. If you consider for a moment what a Google designed device could offer, freed from the limits imposed by operators and incumbent manufacturers…
If you’ve got a good few billion dollars in your pocket and you want to hold of the mobile advertising platform — entirely — and you’ve got the confidence of a few more billion dollars arriving each quarter, what would you do?
Would you do a Blyk? Make it partially free? Would you buy Vodafone? Do you manufacture Google handsets and give’em away? Maybe you build a worldwide MVNO.. only to have to compete against the incumbents.
Oh it’s going to be an interesting few years.
I understand that Google’s GPhone will also make beautiful love to your wife while you work late in the office!
You forgot to add GrandCentral to your GMobile shopping list?
I’m still amazed that we still haven’t seen native GTalk and GCal apps for S60 phones.
And surely Google versions of Tasks, FileManager, ConnectionManager, etc, would be better than Symbian’s?
Hey, why don’t Google just replace the entire Symbian UI?
Just stumbled upon a fantastic perspective of the Jaiku takeover on MobileMessaging2 that concludes with:
“With these possibilities in mind – Jaiku may be one of the most significant acquisitions Google has ever made.”
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