Archive for the 'Google Phone Rumors' Category

Google’s Inroads into Mobile Marketing

Last week Google launched the mobile version of AdSense and they are heavily promoting it on the AdWords side of things as well. They are giving free click-throughs for the next couple months to get the word out.
While not a lot of details were provided when Google purchased Zingku, more details are coming out. 
Zingku’s platform […]

Google Acquires Mobile Platform Operator Zingku

All the stars are starting to align for a big announcement from Google in the coming weeks or months that they have have in fact been working on a mobile device and it will be available in 2008. Google has acquired Zingku for an undisclosed amount of money. It seems that Google is only going […]

gPhone Jobs

 I wish we would have thought about this soon. Want to know what Google is planning for an upcoming product launch? Check out the job ads on their site. That is exactly what the smart people over at the Inquirer did and they found some very interesting new positions available at Google.
There’s at least […]

Google Plans Move Into the U.K. Mobile Market

Guardian newspaper is reporting that Google is:
…considering a move into the U.K. wireless market after the U.K.’s telecommunications regulator Thursday unveiled plans to liberalize parts of the country’s mobile phone radio spectrum, the Guardian reports Friday, without citing sources.
source: CBS MarketWatch
While this is very much in the early stages, this could be significant opportunity […]

Google gPhone Still on the Way

 We wanted to let the dust settle a little before we got back to  posting about all the craziness surrounding the gPhone. Our inbox is literally filled to the brim with rumors around 3G vs. EDGE vs. WiMAX. Based on everything we have read to date, the gPhone is still a “go” and the specs […]

I’m Just Saying…

It ought to be very intersting to see what Google has to present at TechCrunch40 next week. If it is just their version of PowerPoint, I will be very disappointed. I guess we will know in less than 5 days.
We just got permission to post this - On top of everything else we’ve got planned, […]

More Confirmations - Business Week

It has been a crazy few weeks since the gPhone rumors started up at a wildfire pace. While we are still probably weeks or even months away from an official announcement from Google, Business Week has just put out an article saying, more or less, that the gPhone is real and Google has plans to […]

Why I Hate Analysts

I am sure that Thomas Husson is a pretty smart guy, but sometimes I really wonder why these guys get paid so much damn money. Look at this quote from Husson:
Husson said that, because Google is essentially an advertising company, the extent to which a mobile phone would fit into its business model is questionable. […]

Couple Interesting Survey Results

Here is what Julie Ask wrote about recently regarding very interesting survey results as it relates to cell phone usage:
Are consumers interested? Maybe. About one-third of 18- to 24-year-old survey respondents said they would be open to advertising messages on their phone if they were given a free phone. (They aren’t even paying for phones […]

Google Phone Launch - Not If, but When

I could sit here and post 200 gPhone related rumors from the 1000s of leads we get each day, but the fact of the matter is most of these rumors are just re-hashes of the same 3-4 articles we have already mentioned here, here and here.
That being said, when we find something truly interesting and […]