Nexus One Google Phone

If we believe the usual suspects among typically well-informed tech bloggers, Google has begun testing its own cellphone. Apparently it will look just like an iPhone, with a huge touchscreen, but it will be thinner and it is squarely aimed at the crowd that has become so dependent on texting and mobile Internet. Which, of course, includes single parents who need to stay in touch with their kids.

The Google phone is a rumor that just won’t die. But just when we learned that Apple has decided on the manufacturing plant of the “iPhone 4G”, which we would expect to surface sometime in summer of 2010, there are first pictures of the Google phone as well. Called the “Nexus One” for now, it will be built by HTC (which builds a range of smartphone’s including T-Mobile’s G1 Google phone) and apparently include a super fast processor that will cut down load times of increasingly complex applications we want to run on our cellphones.
The first pictures indicate that it will follow the general iPhone design guide, but it may be thinner than the iPhone 3G. Googlees around the world apparently have been given this phone. However, Google officially says that these devices are just “mobile labs” to allow its employees to test out new applications on the go. Riiiiight.

Anyway, if you have been dreaming about an iPhone and an iPhone is on your Christmas wishlist, you may want to think again. What makes the Google phone very attractive is the simple fact that it will be sold through Google directly as an “unlocked” phone allowing you to run this device with any cellphone network provider, depending on the supported network technology. The downside is, of course, that you may have to pay a higher price for this device – expect it to be at least $300 for an entry level device – but you won’t be locked into a two year contract by your cellphone provider and you don’t have to feel guilty that your cellphone company paid the price for your fancy smartphone upfront.

Google’s decision won’t sit well with mobile carriers. But if there is enough demand, the Google phone may change the cellphone landscape. It remains to be seen how that may work, but it surely is not out of the question that Google will move deeper into mobile communications technologies to push its web services to more users much faster than mobile carriers are willing to do it today. One example may be that Google has invested $500 million in Clear, a company that is currently rolling out WiMax services, an advanced wireless data and voice technology, across the nation.

Conceivably, if the Google phone is successful, it may mean, that your cellphone bill may soon be much cheaper than it is today.

Tags: cell phone, entertainment, Google, single dad, single mom, technology

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