Is the Google Phone Real?

The debate over Droid v. iPhone rages on, but lots more Android surprises are on the way. Get ready for the Google Phone. It’s no longer a myth, it’s real. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/17/thegoogle-phone/)

It would launch in early 2010 after a delay but would receive heavy marketing as soon as January. (http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/11/18/googles.own.android.phone.custom.made/)

We’ve also heard from a good source that Google is planning a big advertising push around the device early next year – like January. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/17/thegoogle-phone/)

Arrington claims he has “absolutely confirmed” that Google is building a Google-branded phone to be sold through retailers sometime early 2010.(http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/11/google-phone-is-very-real-says-techcrunch/)

The move would pit Google more directly against Apple as it would not only have its own mobile OS but also its own hardware. It may also create a conflict of interest as features like Google Maps Navigation may get preferential treatment. (http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/11/18/googles.own.android.phone.custom.made/)

The real power of a Google phone and the Android mobile operating system isn’t just computing power, or search, or advertising, or maps. It’s the ability to connect people, places, and things like never before. (http://www.last100.com/2008/09/24/the-real-power-of-googles-phone-connecting-us-to-people-places-and-things/)

Together, the so-called Google phone and the iPhone are disrupting the mobile industry with innovative, powerful, handy devices, applications, and services. Side by side, the Gphone and the iPhone have their differences but overall compliment one another, not compete with each other. (http://www.last100.com/2008/09/24/the-real-power-of-googles-phone-connecting-us-to-people-places-and-things/)

Websites are starting to find the strings of a Google phone visitor in their weblogs:

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.1; en-us; Nexus One Build/ERD56C) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/530.17

(http://blogs.computerworld.com/15242/google_phone_htc_passion_buzz_being_distributed_to_employees)