Tuesday, September 4, 2007

A Google phone is the talk of the blogosphere

The Google Phone: Few outsiders know if it really exists, but it's got a cult following.Just months after iPhone mania gripped Silicon Valley gadget heads, suspense is building over reports that Google Inc. plans to release its own cellphone.The blogosphere is buzzing with rumors that the search giant may announce Linux-based mobile software as early as this week and a Google phone, which observers have cheekily dubbed the GPhone, by early next year.The latter is the most tantalizing to Silicon Valley, which is just getting over the June 29 launch of Apple Inc.'s multipurpose iPhone.No one has displayed indisputable proof that the GPhone exists. But one thing is certain: Google, which took in nearly $11 billion last year from Web advertising, is investing heavily to target the potentially lucrative and hotly contested mobile search market.

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