So the mystery of the GPhone has finally sorta been solved – and as Engadget suggests it’s a phone with Google, not a Google phone. It turns out the mysterious Asian hardware supplier is LG Electronics, which will load up a bunch of Google services (Google Maps, GMail and Blogger) into millions of mobile phones. LG and Google will jointly market the devices – with at least 10 coming out this year. Perhaps even more intriguing is the plan for both companies to collaborate to “develop digitized homes in the future” – the GHome?
Interesting in that I already have a bunch of Google services that were automatically made avaiable to load up onto my Blackberry. Just go to mobile.google.com and you will have a chance to load up seperate clients for Goolge Maps, Google Search, Google News, GTalk and Gmail. What you describe above sounds like an extension of these services that have been available for a few months.
Precursor to GPhone? On My Blackberry? : voiceontheweb.biz
[...] Mark Evans last week picked up on an Engadget post which suggests the much anticipated GPhone is actually a phone with Google, not Google phone. Based on the associated press release from LG Electronics this line of phones will combine appropriate hardware with Google software, namely, Google Maps, GMail and Blogger Mobile [...]