Still no Google phone yet

3rd November, 2009 by adina
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Google denied, on October 31, 2009, making its own smartphone. Andy Rubin, the Android project president said that the company will remain loyal to its customers, offering Android as an operating system only for other hardware manufacturers. He also admitted that Google’s influence on the G1 from T-Mobile was rather negative, as the company is not specialized in hardware design.

The rumor concerning the release of a Google smartphone was also supported by some information saying that Google co-designed the Droid, offering it its brand, its applications suite and that Google helped Motorola design the phone’s hardware. Google affirmed that the Droid is representative for Android 2.0 and that is the only reason why the company was more involved in the phone’s production and release.

If Google ever decides to make its own phone, it risks the collaboration with other phone manufacturers, such as HTC, Motorola and even Apple, as iPhone depends on Google’s Maps and YouTube. Now Google is developing an operating system of its own and will be a direct competitor to Apple. Therefore, Google CEO Eric Schmidt even had to recuse himself from some Apple board meetings and afterwards resigned from the Board of Directors given the conflicts of interests with respect to the Chrome OS.


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