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[Anthony]

Google has unveiled software it hopes will power a variety of future mobile phones and boost the web on the move.


The software could lead to cheaper phones as it is designed to speed up the process of making mobile services.

The firm is working with four mobile manufacturers - Samsung, HTC, Motorola and LG - but a Google branded phone was not announced.

The first phones using the so-called Google "software stack" will be available in the second half of 2008.

"This is going to bring the internet into cell phones in a very cool way," Andy Rubin, Google's director of mobile platforms, told the Associated Press news agency.
Mr Rubin's firm, called Android, was bought by Google in 2005 and the software it developed forms the basis of the new stack.

Read More: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7078921.stm

Old news but certainly worth a mention. I'm fairly sure we will see Google branded electronics at some point in the future, even if they just stick their brand over somebody elses hardware.

[sahmed]

My be coming middle of 2008.

The Google Phone — which, according to several reports, will be made by Google partners and will be available by the middle of 2008 — is likely to provide a stark contrast to the approaches of both Apple and Microsoft to the growing market for smartphones. Google, according to several people with direct knowledge of its efforts, will give away its software to hand-set makers and then use the Google Phone’s openness as an invitation for software developers and content distributors to design applications for it.

Read here http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/te...ll&oref=slogin

[BillyA]

Recent rumor on Wall Street is that they may acquire Verizon Wireless.

[iBuy]

http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/08/f...e-application/

Looks pretty crappy if those are real^^