13 Nov
Posted by Alex as Android, Apps, Google, HTC, Hardware, OHA, Rumors
Amol Sharma at The Wall Street Journal published an analysis of T-Mobile’s Android phone strategy and overall plan to differentiate itself from the pack of massive American cell-phone companies.
[...] It is likely that T-Mobile will be the first U.S. carrier to bring a Google-powered cellphone to market. The two sides have been working together [...]
UBS analyst Benjamin Schachter relays word from his colleague in Taiwan, fellow UBS analyst Arthur Hseih, that Google will be shipping approximately 50,000 GPhones on HTC hardware by the end of the year. The only catch is that these are apparently reserved for software developers.
“These initial phones are not going to be for sale,” Benjamin [...]
Hopefully this week’s string of leaks and rumors will continue throughout the. Some reports say Google will make a major announcement regarding the GPhone after Labor day (which was 3 days ago).
A few days ago the Boston Globe sent a reporter to Google’s offices in Cambridge to dig some dirt on the Google phone. Sadly, there isn’t any new information about the GPhone in the Globe’s video report. However, the accompanying article has a handful of interesting tidbits:
One entrepreneur who has seen the Google phone [...]