Official Google Blog: Where's my Gphone?
After a lot of speculation Google explains what all these Gphone rumors have really be about, the software that makes your mobile go. As they suggest, it is certainly bigger than just a phone (though don't tell Apple cause it seems as though the iPhone is working out for them). But, if Google can create a platform for your mobile, and then, more importantly, the CARRIERS are willing to allow it, this will be big.
Clearly the US cell phone market needs some reform. Everything is so proprietary and mine, mine, mine. The better way is seen on the web, sure, Qwest, Comcast, however you get to the web, but once your are there you can do what you like, install what you like and expand your services as you like. Mobile phones need to get there too.
And on this, the iPhone set the stage. You just go to the store and buy one. No contracts, no 20 minutes with the cell phone store guy asking for this piece of credit history and your last 6 know addresses. You take your iPhone home, plug it in to iTunes (yuck) and it does the rest. The success of this automated process will change the way everyone buys phones.
The success of a open, mobile platform will change the way we use, and think of our phones.
