I want one now!

I can’t see them selling this at retail to the masses. I’m almost certain this is the new Dev phone.

Yeah, it’s a hot, sexy mess. And I mean that in a good way. Similar form-factor to the iPhone, but with a smooth-brushed-metal-looking shell instead of a glossy one. And perhaps a smidgen lighter.

Super fast, speech-to-text in EVERY app, awesome “live wallpapers” in the background that respond to touch in really beautiful ways. Like water ripples that emanate out from a touch.

Guess I am gonna hold out on that Droid. Janurary is just around the corner anyways :)

Would I be able to use it on Virgin Mobile prepaid?

I’ll second that, was seriously debating on heading to Verizon tomorrow, too. This article his JUST in time. :)

Wanted to buy Droid from verizon.
Do not need to do it now. Waiting for better phone.

Does “unlocked” mean it would work with a pre-pay service?

What? No pics?

I find it strange that if “tons” of Google employees were given one today, there is still not a single leaked picture.

But ya, like an iPhone on beautifying steroids ? I seriously doubt that … just another “iPhone killer” wannabe,

pictures or it didnt happen

What’s the difference between the “google phone” and “android”… Or it’s just an update, after all it’s HTC the one put in it together…

Cool
Do not want to buy Droid anymore
Waiting for a new better phone

HTC, does that mean T-Mobile? The unlocked phones were handed out to employees, I doubt they will be sold that way. Lots of corporate functions like all-hands restrict cameras and phones being in the facility. I work for a large corporate company that has the same restrictions when they make large announcements to employees.

short memory
I sent it already :)

Saw it but then again..I heard not all employees got one…only a handful of engineers so the statement “given tons of phones” is false…

Pics or GTFO

HTC is just a manufacturer of handsets like Motorola and LG. They produced the Eris for Verizon that is being sold along with the Droid.

Bring on the competition!!! I love it!

I will be avidly checking in for updates about this. I’m glad I’m waiting to buy an android phone until I know exactly which one to get.

By the way, it’s there a mobile version for TechCrunch? It takes forever to load in my phone…

1) Hater.
2) It’s not yet public, so they’ll probably told not to post pictures dumbass.

Thats what the counter on google homepage is counting back to. Google Phone release. cant wait,

PICS. We must have pics!!!!!!

this is awesome news, i guess mike was right after all, way to show the doubters

I think that it’s the HTC HD2 with Android.

Has Lance Ulanoff taken back all of his comments yet? Wow, egg on his face.

+1

btw twitter just went crazy at 3AM, only a google news can pull that off

It does, but last I checked no US telecom companies offer prepaid data plans. Made me really angry last time I visited the USA. How primitive!

That could be the HTC Passion/Dragon
you nincompoops.
Same Release Date.

Those twits neither prove nor negate
your Google Only Branded phone Theory.

T-mobile offers the sidekick plan. It blocks port 80/443 but if you use a proxy you can get around that.

I was given the phone for a very limited time from a Google employee. It resembled an HTC Hero to my eyes, though a tiny bit smaller and DEFINITELY thinner. I kept looking over at the guy using it, thinking to myself that it WAS a Hero, but when I asked, he spilled the beans. Google employees were handed the phones today. He reiterated that there would probably be a decent amount of information hitting the tubes this weekend. With my limited time with the device, I saw it running Android 2.1. The home screen had this animated background image that looked nifty with red and blue lasers shooting across it. The gray bar at the bottom of the home screen was replaced with the “house” line art used on the face of most Android phones that takes you to the home screen. Looked sleeker. Super light phone too.

This phone was unlocked, though the guy had thrown an AT&T sim card into it.

That’s about all I was able to glean in my minute’s worth of dabbling. It was sleek and nice looking, but I am scratching my head trying to figure out what the real difference is between this and any of the newer HTC Android phones. Scanning the apps, I didn’t see anything that really stood out as different from what I have on my Droid. And being that it was Android 2.1, the only really differences I saw were a few visual ones. So it doesn’t appear (in its current state) to really be offering “the *real* Android” experience that’s mind blowingly different from what’s out there so far. Maybe I just didn’t dig deep enough to find it though.

Sorry I couldn’t snap a photo. :(

+1

I juts heard on twitter it might be named NEXUS

I love technology and I love google and I love techcrunch that’s all I have to say thank you very much

+1

I’m so conflicted. I would so much love to see Jobs and company eat sh*t and watch their market go poof. But, as much as I hate Apple, I fear the Google more.

Sounds like a marketing strategy that you just fell for. Oh yeah your gullible like that. I wonder how the joojoo is doing.

We are the G’s. We come in peace, always.

Can’t wait. This might be the phone I’ve been waiting for. I hope it’s not going to be tied to one carrier.

Not to nitpick, but how is this a “Google” phone.
Sounds like it’s just another HTC Android phone.

MetroPCS offers a prepaid data plan.

someone please post pics!

Not only it’s for real, it’s for certainty. Love that word ‘steroids’….

See the leaked preview: http://bit.ly/google-phone-is-for-real-coming-very-soon

the hardware is probably made by htc, but it’s google branded and google designed it, just saying, we’ll see, the most interesting part it’s the voip part

We need PICSSSS!!!!

If this story is true, that would probably be the point – handing a bunch of phones that are not available yet to employees would be an intentional leak designed to disrupt sales of competitors phones. Not that mom is going to NOT buy you that iPhone because she hears that there’s an HTC phone coming that might be better, but for some I suppose it would work.

That said, I don’t believe that 1) this is the so-called Google phone or 2) that this is ZOMG. Yet another Android HTC phone without a keyboard isn’t going to kill anything just yet, and Android isn’t killing iPhone for a long while.

Will it be a dev phone in the same shape as the DP1 and the Ion, subsequently released as an HTC handset on other networks, or is HTC just acting as the ODM on a true “Google Phone”?

Surely the former would be the more realistic scenario, with Google flogging them unlocked to anyone with a dev account. However, if the rumours are true that Microsoft is thinking about building their own, then it would make sense for GOOG to get into the hardware market too.

pumped to see it.

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exactly the same iPhone is not a Foxcon phone with Apple software

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lol bernie

+1 use MoFuse and get it done immediately so we don’t have to wait any longer.

Well. . . having the hottest Android phone on the market was fun while it lasted.

That’s one big thing the iPhone has going for it – when you buy one the day it’s released, you can be reasonably sure you’re going to have the top of the line iPhone for a year.

When you buy an Android phone – you have to face the fact that a better Android phone is likely to hit the streets well within 3 months’ time.

Strange thing to complain about, I agree. . . . Classify it under “good problems”. I just don’t want to be feeling buyers remorse any time soon! (And nothing brings on that feeling like being locked into a 2 year contract.)

I’m digging my Droid a lot. . . I just know what gear-lust can do to a tech enthusiast. It ain’t pretty.

That’s an assumption not a fact.
HTC passion/Dragon due to be release in
that date. Be odd if the company (htc) decide
to compete with herself.

The googler wrote:
“…and we all got the *new* Google phone. It’s beautiful.”

“The *new* google phone” as oppose to “The Google Phone”.

I’m willing to bet 100$ that “The *new* google phone”
is in fact the HTC Dragon.

i don’t think google would make such a big deal if it was just another htc android phone, plus isn’t the passion coming like in april or march, that’s what the leaked roadmap said didn’t it

another week, another phone. meh.

Unless they do a serious overhaul of android’s market to go along with this, they’re still going to be way behind Apple.

Whatever! So HTC have gone from producing rubbish hardware to suddenly producing an iPhone killer? Yeah ….

another android device artificially hyped up for nothing. whats new? oh right…. NOTHING

The editor is heavily biased towards pushing everything that has google on it.

O wait, the editor is not a journalist but seems to invest in the very copanies he writes about:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2356075,00.asp

If it looks anything like the Motorola Droid fridge-like clunker and the other HTC junk I’m not impressed.

but told them its ok to tweet about them?

Praise the lord!!!

I hope at least that they got rid of that ugly chin like the Hero has.

But once again I think it is more a dev. phone and has a second goal to generate some media exposure for Android.

Hope there’s no exclusivity with the service.

As long as the iPhone and Droid are tied to AT&T and Verizon, they can only be as good as the mediocre carriers.

does anyone have any pictures or movies to show off this phone? Or is this PR BS?

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It’ll come with unlimited free Google Voice calls, unlimited free web browsing. No plans needed.

Is it a 4.8″ 800×480 screen like the Archos 5 Internet Tablet with Android?

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It’s probably $100 and without any need for any contracts, so it could come with pre-paid plans and totally unlocked for all.

Windows Mobile FTW, oh wait 7 is DOA my bad.

Check at the end of my video to see if Kevin Marks knows about the Google Phone being for real: http://armdevices.net/2009/12/12/ribbit-voip-explained-by-kevin-marks-and-jp-rangaswami-of-british-telecom/

All things in time.

So much anger, does this change your life in any way if it is or is not more suitable to some than an iPhone?

Relax, you will live longer.

+1 for JooJoo reference.

HTC phones are hardly rubbish..

Upside I expect to see 2.1 and other updates come very quickly for the droid, benefits of being stock android.

Verizon/Google/Moto for the most part pushed out a 2.0.1 hotfix fairly quickly.

The Real question is how much clout does a company have to make sure they have access to new versions in a timely manner.

a email was sent later in the day (before TC picked it up and after the tweet) saying not to talk about the phone and to not show if off

This isn’t a g phone. Htc hardware makes it branded phone, no

iphone will continue to rule

google has made nothing of value since its search engine 10 years ago

google is done

google will fail again

nothing google ever made besides search makes any money. think of all those engineers wasting shareholder funds. fire them all.

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http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/11/18/arrington-google-phone

Gruber was wrong once again. Claim Chowder my ass.

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a classic case here. You SHOULD never believe what you read!

Seriously. Too many Apple fan boys running around here. I’ve never seen a product hurt me because somebody else bought it, relax.

That’s my guess as well.

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I would love to see some pics… how could it ever take the place of my beloved iPhone?!

Which edition of the Hero did it resemble? Sprint’s isn’t very attractive.

It’s a HTC Passion that will be sold unlocked (and subsidized as well). Running Eclair, nothing else new from what I saw.

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It’s the new dev phone to replace current dev phone which is Google-branded G1 that can’t run Android 2.0. They did exact same thing last year and gave them to employees.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/05/google-now-hawking-fully-unlocked-android-phones-to-developers/

If this is true. Google is about to kick all other android partners in the balls!

What OS will motorola , dell, sony and other desperate manufacturers run to? MSFT! At least MSFT never made desktops or laptops.

I hate MSFT, but I’m starting to dislike GOOG more each day.

I ‘ve installed a leaked Android 2.1 on my htc hero and it looks like it will have some really cool features. When the bugs are gone and the phone stops rebooting in random times, that is. I really think it’s Android that makes the difference, not the exact hardware it runs on

The Google Phone…

Googler’s tweeting about receiving the Google Phone at a meeting has started another round of speculation about the upcoming device…….

So once you buy the phone everything is free? That sounds super-fantastic! Most people would say that’s too good to be true, but I’m not so jaded!

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Googlers know a lot a about a lot. Beauty isn’t one of them.

All Android phones have been fugly compared to the iPhone so far (one of the reasons they’re not selling outstide the US), and in the lifestyle accessory market, that’s a dealbreaker. Unfortunately, most techies can’t seem to tell the difference, so we keep getting reports of “beautiful” new phones when they’re just generic pieces of bland, cheap looking tech. Which kind of sums up anything HTC has produced so far.

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Android partners? How are they partners? They’re not. They don’t pay for Android. It’s free. It’s an open playing field, and they’re jumping in.

The “partners” aren’t going to go to MSFT. Why? Because that wouldn’t help them sell more phones because Win Mobile fricking sucks, and everyone who touches a phone with Android or Iphone knows it. Android was their best option for staying relevant. Either that or go the way of Samsung and build their own crappy OS. Either way, they couldn’t compete without Android (or some other open mobile OS), and they know it. Android just happens to be the best of the open mobile OS’s.

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This is really something. But can we argue Google is not doing hardware just yet?

NEXUS is the name of the sony ericsson Xperia X10′s custom android interface

All purchases on hold now. I hope they bring this to India.

Not buying the “beautiful” comment. Nothing Google has ever done could really be characterized as anything other than visually hideous.

I’m surmising that this will be Google’s answer to Apple’s iPod Touch – a carrier free Google branded Android device. It will have WiFi and you’ll probably be able to make calls using Google Voice + Gizmo5 VoIP. However, it appears that it may have cellular chips/radio so you can use a SIM and connect to a mobile carrier, but this will be a feature of the device, not the central reason for being. It is not a phone, at least not primarily.

Since it won’t be subsidized by a carrier, I assume it will have a steep purchase price ($400-$600?).

Killer Google Phone scenario: use Google Voice # for all calls and SMS. Connect via WiFi where available and use a T-mobile pre-paid SIM on HSPA 7.2/HSPA+21 when necessary. The mobile carrier becomes the back-up connectivity commodity and Google wins wins wins.

Google is Skynet

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My thoughts exactly. Combine that with the report that it looked very much like a Hero that’s thinner and running 2.1 and that equals the Bravo/Passion/Dragon. I just used google images and compared the Eris with the leaked Bravo pic and that would make complete sense. Many people causally describe Android as Google phones.

Here are the Bravo AKA Passion specs:

- Available: April 2010
- Networks: WCDMA/HSPA: 900/2100 MHz; GPS/GPRS/EDGE: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz; UL=2 Mbps; DL=7.2Mbps
- Display: 3.7-inch WVGA AMOLED capacitive touch screen
- Camera: 5 megapixel with Auto Focus with camera flash with High definition/720p Video capture
- Operating system: Android
- Input: touch screen
- CPU: Qualcomm QSD 8250, 1GHz
- Memory: 512MB flash, 256 MB RAM
- Memory card: microSD
- Storage: 16GB MicroSD card
- Connectivity: WiFi, AGPS, FM radio, 3.5mm audio jack, Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR, MicroUSB
- Battery: 1400 mAh
- Dimensions: 112 x 56 x 11.7 mm
- Other: Google Mobile Services, Microsoft Exchang e-mail, Facebook, Flick, Gompass, G-Sensor, Search boutton, Optical Joystick, DivX

It looks just like the HTC HD2 with Android 2.1, only slightly smaller but still bigger than the touch pro 2.

Sounds hideous.

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What if the Iphone is the AOL of this decade? On the one hand, a game-changing tool that changed the way people access the web, but on the other, a closed, simplistic system at risk of being surpassed by an open platform that will be more attractive as the user based becomes more and more sophisticated? Why isn’t android versus iphone the same battle as microsoft OS versus apple OS in the 1980s? And, what’s the real niche the iphone will carve out in the matter the apple desktop systems have with creative professionals and artists?

channelling the real “Jerzy Kosinski”?

It will also print money.

Let’s hope all the handset makers with Android phones get access to 2.1, otherwise they would be pissed that G is d*cking them around.

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Dude! Your basicly saying what’s happening to the iPhone. Every new Android phone is great! They all burn the iPhone

And amazingly, in this world where people post pics of everything, not 1 picture of this mythical beast has shown up online even though dozens of people are supposedly running around with actual units in hand and tweeting about it….

Does this thing have att 3g capabilty?

Did you happent to see what carrier/network this phone will run on?

I hear it will give massages, balance your checkbook, feed your cat, sing your kids to sleep, change diapers, vacuum, cook your dinner and get you invited to the best parties.

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And get you laid.

meh…

So to recap:

1.) No idea if this is a carrier independent phone

2.) No idea if this phone works with TMobile or ATT’s 3G networks

3.) No idea when it’ll be released.

4.) No idea about the hardware specs.

5.) OMG, YAIPK (yet another iPhone killer)

LOL.

I’m with you, Chan – that the Droid is a stock Android experience was a big selling point for me. UI skins are pretty, but I don’t want to wait on a 3rd party to make compatibility adjustments before an OS update can be applied.

2.1 should be in the hands of Droid users next month – probably right around the time this new phone is coming out. Looking forward to it! Updates always make it feel like Christmas.

AND – I guess there’s plenty of reason to be excited about the market being saturated with incredible Android phones: The developer community and the Android Market will continue to grow. BRING IT ON.

lol. basically.

Sounds like a lot of hype from Google employees. I’ll wait a while – thank you!

Not a Google Phone says Google http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2009/12/android-dogfood-diet-for-holidays.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+OfficialGoogleMobileBlog+(Official+Google+Mobile+Blog)

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If this was real, then where are the pictures?

Sounds like a plant, hype.

Show me! Don’t tell me.

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Google is building their own branded phone because android is going nowhere with the current android devices. Droid sales and Android total sales so far must be horrible!

Samsung is building their own OS, because they have the brains to realize the best way to profits is to follow RIM, Apple, Palm and Nokia in building their own platform and services around devices.

I also expect to see more search engines to compete with Google in 2010.

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All you have to do is hand your entire online life & data stream over to Google in return. Considering their approach to privacy, that’s a really bad bargain, IMO.

And you wont have to give up professional golf.

Google hands out phones every holiday season to employees. They did that in previous years. A free phone for employees does not a google phone make.

great! the Droid’s 15 minutes of fame are over. here comes the next one hit Android wonder. and then a reported 50 more next year!! Fragmentation rolls on!!!

“an HTC Hero to my eyes, though a tiny bit smaller and DEFINITELY thinner”

Htc Hero: 112 x 56.2 x 1.435
Htc Legend (predicted): 111 x 57 x 1.14

It seems a Legend.

FYI, your “money” picture came from identi.ca…

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Sorry, scratch that…

I’m sure Cricket probably does as well.

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Yeah that makes perfect sense. Droid sales were terrible so Google decided to design and manufacture a branded phone all in less than a month after the release of Droid. Good call.

Apple – hear me, and hear me well. Google is doing to you what Linux is doing to microsoft. To your Safari, they release Chrome, a leaner, more developer-friendly version (with extensions!) To your iPhone, they are releasing the Google Android. Yes, MS and Google are both into hardware, but yours will turn into a battle of style+closed ecosystem vs simplicity+open ecosystem. Cf: Microsoft’s Win32/.NET vs Linux/BSD. Cf: pretty webpages vs Web 2.0 style pages. It will take 10 years but eventually simplicity will overtake prettiness. And it will be a sad day because I like pretty stuff.

Steve Jobs, are you reading this?

PS: If you are, please invite me to your next holiday party, I would love to meet you :) My email is on my website. I’m serious.

[...] night, we started seeing some Tweets from Google employees and others about a new Android-powered Google phone that was apparently handed out at an “all [...]

The Tweet this article quotes in the headline names the Google phone, while the headline is written Google Phone. The devil’s in the details. This is not the Google Phone that will piss off all the manufacturers and re-define the role of carriers. It’s just a mobile development lab for Google employees to test new Android (and hardware) features before they’re implemented into released Android revs.

I bet Verizon and Motorola are pissed that so many people are questioning their DROID purchases based on this mis-information. By the time this gets straightened out, a critical pre-Christmas shopping weekend will have passed. I’d say this one’s on Google for letting their employees have it and mention it without first issuing an official press release stating the device’s true purpose. Lucky Android’s free to the manufacturers, but feelings will be hurt.

Google’s hasty clarification this morning:
http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2009/12/android-dogfood-diet-for-holidays.html

Apple – hear me, and hear me well. Google is doing to you what Linux is doing to microsoft. To your Safari, they release Chrome, a leaner, more developer-friendly version (with extensions!) To your iPhone, they are releasing the Google Android. Yes, MS and Google are both into hardware, but yours will turn into a battle of style+closed ecosystem vs simplicity+open ecosystem. Cf: Microsoft’s Win32/.NET vs Linux/BSD. Cf: pretty webpages vs Web 2.0 style pages. It will take 10 years but eventually simplicity will overtake prettiness. And it will be a sad day because I like pretty stuff.

Steve Jobs, are you reading this?

PS: If you are, please invite me to your next holiday party, I would love to meet you :) My email is on my website. I’m serious.

More sinister plots from Google’s secret underground lair! Someone please send in the Spy Kids! Oh wait no, no…… “Yes, resistance is futile, I must bow to my Google Borg masters….”

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I’m glad you’re not my stock broker.

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I’m still waiting for an android or iphone with a camera in the front for some serious video calling. Nokia already has that kind of phone for years unfortunately the trend never really picked up.

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Checked out the Droid in person the other day.

Killer features are definitely multi-tasking and Maps with GPS. Display is also superior. The interface, not so much.

However, I don’t think any phone will ever beat the iPhone in terms of hard/software aesthetics and simplicity. The whole design is as iconic as Kubrick’s monolith.

Every other smartphone is riddled with buttons and elements that contradict having a touchscreen.

The iPhone needs multi-tasking now as much as it needed copy+paste. It’ll be the only thing Android has going on, once the Google GPS app and Verizon come on board.

The tweet that feed us all. I must say this is one of the ‘good’ news we will be receiving after new year. But what irritates most of the users
is the prediction that the goog phone will be powered by AT&T? geez.. now that’s a ‘ZOMG’ situation… but why?,,,,
Detailed preview of google phone: http://bit.ly/google-phone-on-january-predictions

I think that as of the Droid’s arrival, you’re going to start to see a delay in how soon features that debut on Android will appear on the iPhone. While Google certainly values the user info and ad placement the iPhone interface offers, it’d rather drive early adopters towards Android devices and the functionality offered by hardware made for the Google experience and apps that can fully exploit said functionality. I think buttons that have universal uses across apps have a place on touchscreen smartphones. That is, until they’re replaced by gestures or another input method. Menu, back and home come to mind.

[...] new phones to employees, who began posting comments to Twitter about them, as TechCrunch reported. Some of them referred to the device as the new “Google [...]

[...] new phones to employees, who began posting comments to Twitter about them, as TechCrunch reported. Some of them referred to the device as the new “Google [...]

[...] new phones to employees, who began posting comments to Twitter about them, as TechCrunch reported. Some of them referred to the device as the new “Google [...]

If.

[...] posting about their experience with the phone. Jason Howell, an employee at CNet posted on  Tech Crunch saying the following about the Google [...]

Three comments. One, this would be a fairly material acknowledgement that Google’s loosely coupled approach is not “good enough” for the mass market in mobile (relatively to Apple’s tightly, integrated end-to-end story).

Two, by doing this, Google looses the “enemy of my enemy is my friend” positioning with handset makers, developers and carriers (the “anyone but apple” crowd), and those who to date have bifurcated the market as Evil Apple vs. Do No Evil Google. Now, the two companies look similarly positioned.

Three, the iPhone Killer meme, and the “inevitability” of Android story – great handset or no – still hungers for better tools, more apps, a more compelling Android Market (workflow, experience, marketplace) and an iTunes-worthy Media client.music library, something that I blogged about in:

Android’s ‘Inevitability’ and the Missing Leg
http://bit.ly/87URNI

Check it out if interested.

Mark

[...] [via Techcrunch] [...]

[...] in Jan. A sexy beast. Like an iPhone on beautifying steroids.” [link] In the comments of the TechCrunch article you can find the Great White Snark saying the [...]

It’s only got t-mobile 3g bands.

No it won’t it’s just another Android phone.

They’re allowed to talk about it. No media coverage/pictures.

3.7 at 800×480 Droid resolution.

It’s the passion. The one we’ve seen leaked pics of, with a teflon exterior.

It’s not a google voice phone like they keep trying to say. It’s just a really f’in nice HTC Android phone.

Don’t expect 2.1 any time real soon on anything but HTC devices with SenseUI.

Hahaha what a sad, pathetic troll attempt. Google has been growing faster than Apple and Android’s market share is growing while Apple’s shrinks.

[...] [Via: TechCrunch] [...]

DAMN. I was Going To get The Droid Now I’ll HAVE TO WAIT!!

Great looking phone, Will compete with iphone.

[...] o rumor que não morre, o Google Phone, está de volta; claro, surgido a partir de algumas tuitadas e do TechCrunch… porque, afinal, o sonho de Silicon Valley é que o Google lance seu telefone e, junto com a [...]

[...] Daring Fireball, Tech Crunch, Google Mobile [...]

[...] The Ugliest Fight Ever: Apple Versus Google What people have been saying since since July 2008 is now true: the Google Phone exists and is coming. [...]

[...] Google Phone is sounding more and more real [...]

[...] so here’s the deal… So, as of December 11 2009, employees of Google started tweeting the news that Google has handed out probably hundreds of these phones to their employees. They call this [...]

That was nice of them to hand them out to employees.

no apparently I was right, there are reports out that it’s codenamed “nexus one”

[...] you read this, this, this, this, and this, you might see a common theme. [...]

too bad they cant give you prozac zippy.

[...] The Google Phone Is “Like An iPhone On Beautifying Steroids” (GOOG, AAPL) [...]

[...] night, we started seeing some Tweets from Google employees and others about a new Android-powered Google phone that was apparently handed out at an “all [...]

[...] [via Techcrunch] [...]

it will drink all the beer in your fridge.

[...] Google, TechCrunch, CNET, PCWorld, [...]

Google is moving down in the stack to challenge B2C opponents with an open architecture and new sets of standards. In creating a post-revenue business model, Google can only manage success if consumers accept a co-branding and outsourced manufactured device … NQ Logic recommends reading about the rest of the new Google’s mobile strategy at http://www.nqlogic.com

[...] be directly sold by Google. It even seems that Google employees have got their hands on it and are tweeting their findings to the [...]

Can’t wait for it!

Look some leaked photos on my album!

[...] night, we started seeing some Tweets from Google employees and others about a new Android-powered Google phone that was apparently handed out at an “all [...]

[...] More here: ZOMG The Google Phone Is “Like An iPhone On Beautifying Steroids” [...]

[...] via 谷安 and TechCrunch [...]

[...] wait to see the Nexus One!! The prospect of a pure #Google phone sounds enticing! http://bit.ly/4UTOSg #android #htc Tags: fresh, [...]

I’d do it.

Too bad Google hasn’t made any money on advertising or anything.

OH WAIT

[...] The Google Phone Is “Like An iPhone On Beautifying Steroids” (GOOG, AAPL) [...]

Wow this might be the phone I’ve been waiting for..I was waiting for iphone 2010 but anymore.

But if google is only testing android 2.1?

Wow this might be the phone I’ve been waiting for..I was waiting for iphone 2010 but anymore.

But what if google is only testing android 2.1?

[...] Google-branded phone in early 2010. Arrington’s reports appear to be getting some serious confirmation as Google employees are tweeting they’re testing new devices running Android [...]

[...] ZOMG The Google Phone Is “Like An iPhone On Beautifying Steroids” Dec 13, 2009 in Uncategorized via techcrunch.com [...]

[...] TechCrunch][via [...]

[...] ZOMG The Google Phone Is “Like An iPhone On Beautifying Steroids” [...]

[...] to be tweeting the details of the Google Phone, but they have no problem tweeting about how awesome it is. And they also apparently have no problem showing it off. And not surprisingly, pictures of [...]

[...] now he’s claiming victory on predicting the gPhone? No, I’m sorry.  It was my investigative reporting and hard work [...]

[...] I quote AndroidCentral’s Phil Nickinson, who nailed the intro to the latest Google Phone rumors the way nailing’s meant to be done, let me just ask (again) how giving employees HTC phones [...]

[...] since last two to three weeks, from the day its was announced by Google. Yesterday, one of the Google employees, tweeted about the Google phone being gifted to the employees and called the phone as an iPhone on Steroids. According to Wall Street Journal, the Google phone [...]

[...] | TechCrunch Vía | [...]

[...] [TechCrunch] Tagged:androidandroid 2.1blockquotegooglegoogle phonehtchtc passionmobile phonesphonesrumours [...]

[...] The Google Phone Is “Like An iPhone On Beautifying Steroids” (GOOG, AAPL) [...]

[...] empezaron a dar vueltas Tweets de empleados de Google y otros sobre un nuevo telefono Android (esta vez DE GOOGLE) que al parecer fue entregado a todo el mundo [...]

[...] Shared ZOMG The Google Phone Is “Like An iPhone On Beautifying Steroids”. [...]

[...] muss natürlich noch nicht heissen, dass Google auch in das Hardwaregeschäft einsteigen will, Beobachtern fällt aber auf, dass die Mitarbeiter in ihren Tweets nur vom “Google Phone” [...]

[...] in Jan. A sexy beast. Like an iPhone on beautifying steroids.” [link] In the comments of the TechCrunch article you can find the Great White Snark saying the [...]

[...] The Google Phone Is “Like An iPhone On Beautifying Steroids” (GOOG, AAPL) [...]

But it won’t toast bread
and the camera’s flash will be too bright
unlike it’s users.

[...] night, we started seeing some Tweets from Google employees and others about a new Android-powered Google phone that was apparently handed out at an “all [...]

[...] Permalink TechCrunch  |  Leslie Hawthorn, Great White Snark, Jason Howell  | Email this | Comments [...]

So, every day Google know more and more about your internet activity and collect more and more data (mostly without your knowledge or approval)

Pretty soon they will know what you do with your mobile phone too (without your knowledge or approval).

Pretty soon Google will own your ass.

Good product or not, putting your eggs in one basket is going to mean very bad things in the long run.

[...] mill you can’t swing a dead cat without hearing about the Google Phone just about everywhere you [...]

[...] night, we started seeing some Tweets from Google employees and others about a new Android-powered Google phone that was apparently handed out at an “all [...]

Once again TC gets it worng by being a lazy Socble Tech reporter:

1. A GooglePhone would only make sense on GSM bands with a quad band chip such as Moto’s to cover both T-Mobile, two AT&T bands and the other GSM US bands

2. All Android developer Phones are not Hardware OEM branded..

3. Could have called the Chicago OEM that distributes ADPs to deny or confirm if it was GooglePhone.

As I have stated before if you are going to report on andoroid get better informed information..perhaps via an informed Android applications Developer..

[...] natürlich wird auch bereits begeistert darüber gezwitschert, wie toll das Teil ist. Es dürfte folglich nur eine Frage der Zeit sein, bis mehr Infos bekannt [...]

[...] just when I decided I’d take the plunge and buy a ‘droid, I hear that Google is releasing its own phone next year. But, when? “And the devices look to be coming out in [...]

[...] a Google Phone. http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/12/12/the-google-phone-this-changes-everything/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/11/google-phone-zomg/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/12/google-phone-unlocked-confirmed/ Apple Buys Lala [...]

[...] (GOOG) announced on its mobile blog Saturday what dozens of staffers had already leaked: the company has given employees around the world free handsets running its Android mobile [...]

[...] TechCrunch for Tweets about the Google phone, Engadget for photos taken with the device, and Daring Fireball [...]

[...] TechCrunch and [...]

[...] Im Laufe des Wochenendes verbreitete sich dann immer schneller die Informationen darüber, dass Google im kommenden Jahr ein eigenes Handy verkaufen will. Nexus One, so soll es heißen. Das Touchscreen-Gerät soll von HTC produziert werden und natürlich mit dem Google-Betriebssystem Android ausgestattet werden. Erste Bilder, die Nexus One zeigen sollen, sind bereis bei Twitter aufgetaucht. Weitere Informationen findet man bei SPIEGEL ONLINE und im Blog TechCrunch. [...]

[...] TechCrunch for Tweets about the Google phone, Engadget for photos taken with the device, and Daring Fireball [...]

[...] The Google Phone Is “Like An iPhone On Beautifying Steroids” (GOOG, AAPL) [...]

[...] so lately there have been a lot of buzz about the so called Google phone. Firstly TechCrunch caught a few Tweets (by Google employees) about the Google Phone (Tweets attached below) then WSJ further [...]

[...] part of the company’s test process for soliciting feedback and suggestions. TechCrunch uncovered several tweets from Google employees who raved about the device, even when they were not supposed to discuss [...]

[...] Original post by Michael Arrington [...]

[...] Twitter message posted by a Google employee Friday evening, who said she had the phone. The post, first reported by TechCrunch, sparked the new round of [...]

AOL wasn’t game changing. It was the same as compuserve and a handful of others. Not even close to comparable.

“another guy, jason howell…”

LOL.

. dude, tell me you didn’t see his affiliation on his twitter account: he’s a – drum roll, please – CNET EDITOR! yes, CNET!

[...] TechCrunch for Tweets about the Google phone, Engadget for photos taken with the device, and Daring Fireball [...]

[...] says, “Last night, we started seeing some Tweets from Google employees and others about a new Android-powered Google phone that was apparently handed out at an “all [...]

There’s a bunch of pics of thiss phone.. Look harder >_> I think androidphones.com had an article of it with just 1 pic but I’ve seen like 5 pics so far.

[...] night, we started seeing some Tweets from Google employees and others about a new Android-powered Google phone that was apparently handed out at an “all [...]

[...] και επίσημα καθώς μερικοί εργαζόμενοι της Google έγραφαν την Παρασκευή στους λογαριασμούς που έχουν στο twitter [...]

[...] is reporting now that the phone will be called the Nexus One. Tehcrunch says they saw some Tweets from Google employees and others about a new Android-powered Google phone that was apparently handed out at an “all [...]

[...] past week, I was quoted or cited on TechCrunch and blogs of The New York Times, Woot, and [...]

[...] Twitter feed, so to speak, that ensued quickly got noticed by the blogosphere–first on Friday night by TechCrunch, which also first wrote about the “Google Phone” last month. (The Wall Street Journal [...]

[...] CNET’s Jason Howell went further with a detailed comment on a TechCrunch article I was given the phone for a very limited time from a Google employee. It resembled an HTC [...]

[...] for the last few weeks. First, Silicon Valley blogs started reporting that Google staffers had been handed out the new handset, believed to be a rebadged HTC Bravo, seen in the recently leaked roadmap. Then the inevitable [...]

[...] Tweets appear on Twitter from Google employees who had some hands-on on the actual phone itself. Various websites have been doing reports on the new Google phone, which is believed to be “Like an [...]

[...] Nexus One soll laut TechCrunch im Januar 2010 ohne Vertragsbindung auf dem amerikanischen Markt eingeführt werden. Ob es auch in [...]

[...] to be tweeting the details of the Google Phone, but they have no problem tweeting about how awesome it is. And they also apparently have no problem showing it off. And not surprisingly, pictures of [...]

[...] to be tweeting the details of the Google Phone, but they have no problem tweeting about how awesome it is. And they also apparently have no problem showing it off. And not surprisingly, pictures of [...]

[...] confermato da Mountain View e distribuito ai suoi impiegati in tutto il mondo. Uno di questi ha cinguettato senza mezzi termini che è come un “iPhone agli steroidi”, la cui dotazione hardware [...]

[...] mensagens, que surgiram na última sexta, foram notadas pelo blog TechCrunch. Uma delas foi postada por Leslie Hawthorne, uma gerente no Google, e dizia: “Presa no trânsito [...]

[...] unlocked Google Phones running Android 2.1. And the devices look to be coming out in January." http://bit.ly/5ZwONS Tags: fresh, [...]

And if you don’t make money out of it you fail. Well, so much for charity work

What Google forgets is that Apple offers end-to-end multimedia solutions, not just a phone. Between a Macbook, an iPodTouch, AirPort Express you can set up a mobile music library in your home using state-of-the art Apple innovation. How does Google help in that space – they don’t. Google will be taking business away from Symbian OS phones, not Apple.

[...] of info about the Google phone that has been rumored for more than a year were fueled by a tweet. MobileCrunch reported that the following tweet was made and was followed up with a couple other tweets from Google [...]

[...] out in Jan. A sexy beast. Like an iPhone on beautifying steroids.” [link] In the comments of the TechCrunch article you can find the Great White Snark saying the [...]

[...] insistence on the gPhone’s existence a few weeks ago, and then got ignited by a handful of tweets from Google employees over the weekend. Like this one: A friend from Google showed me the new Android 2.1 phone from HTC [...]

[...] So, what’s the deal with the new Google Phone, also known as Nexus One? After all, a lot of people have already seen Android-enabled phones from HTC and recently from Motorola and Samsung. What will set the Google Phone apart from the competition? Well, it has Google’s signature all over it for one and it will not be exclusive to any phone company — it will be sold directly and via retailers as an unlocked phone. According to TechCrunch, Google has been involved in all aspects of the phone design to ensure all apps work perfectly. Some people who have seen and privileged to be the first users of the phone say that it’s like an iPhone on steroids. [...]

[...] ZOMG The Google Phone Is “Like An iPhone On Beautifying Steroids” (tags: google mobile android phone) Share and Enjoy:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]

[...] recent news you may have heard that Google is brewing something awesome, behind-the-scenes: a Google phone. Now, don’t get this confused with other phones running Android, Google’s mobile [...]

[...] TechCrunch reports that Google has given out unlocked Android 2.1 “Google Phones” to some of its employees. [...]

This phone will probably not be sold under the name ´Nexus One´. A daughter of a late American SciFi Author is said to have already contacted her lawyer…

I´m not familiar with this author, I think you American ( or English ) guys will know better.

The phone seems to be a real I Phone killer !

The downfall of this phone is that it’s supported by the worst service ever, T-Mobile.

[...] Nexus One is expected to be released early next year sold both unlocked from Google and in partnership with at least one major carrier. [...]

[...] the few reviews I’ve seen are all positive and people are explaining the Nexus One as Source: “A sexy beast. Like an iPhone on beautifying steroids.” Rumor is that the Nexus One will hit the market in January and will be available for purchase [...]

It is Google’s strategy to advertise the product (more like Apple’s default strategy)!

[...] is a winner. But now, just two months later, we have a new Android phone that by just about every account is better than it. In fact, the only real upsides for the Droid over the Nexus One is that it runs [...]

[...] year and switched to Android mobile phones. First the MyTouch, then the Droid. I’ll soon be upgrading again. What I like best about Android is the deep integration with Google Voice, which I talk about [...]

i have people complaining about the same thing for http://styleguidance.com but the fact remains that only a tiny portion of users would use the mobile version, and there are way too many more important features to work no.

I’m sure it’s the same way here at TC.

[...] Dezember berichtete das amerikanische Technik-Blog Techcrunch, dass Google viele Angestellte in Amerika mit dem ersten wirklichen Google Handy beschenkt hat. [...]

[...] Sources: Engadget | TechCrunch [...]

[...] Google’s new mobile (Nexus One) is in the design more ore less an iPhone version, why not name it gPhone? I don’t believe in compromising solutions as producing it with HTC, it is not 100% Google. It is like the first Apple mobile done with Motorola (first time I ever seen the audience at Steve Jobs keynote not applauding a new product). We al want Google to become an mobile. They are seriously with Googlemobile.blogspot.com but the first step is to much a of an geek product and are not having the innovative genius level that an 100% Google product can achieve. Like An iPhone On Beautifying Steroids. Techcrunch.com [...]

[...] description seems to be a popular one these days. The Nexus One was first described as an “iPhone on beautifying steroids” by someone last month prior to its launch. For what it’s worth, I ended up disagreeing [...]

[...] last description seems to be a popular one these days. The Nexus One was first described as an “iPhone on beautifying steroids” by someone last month prior to its launch. For what it’s worth, I ended up disagreeing [...]

[...] to be tweeting the details of the Google Phone, but they have no problem tweeting about how awesome it is. And they also apparently have no problem showing it off. And not surprisingly, pictures of [...]

[...] employees couldn’t resist tweeting about the new Nexus One back in mid-December, after which the Google mobile blog made a cryptic allusion to a test run of [...]

[...] zum Nexus One klingen sehr vielversprechend. Wenige Tage vor Weihnachten berichteten sowohl Techcrunch als auch Golem, dass Google Mitarbeiter in Amerika mit dem Nexus One beschenkt wurden. In einer [...]

I hope it’s not going to be tied to one carrier.