Google Phone? Six Fun Eric Schmidt Facts About GPhone
Om Malik has been laboring all labor day weekend to bring us Google Phone facts…no, fiction, no facts, no rumors, no dirt, no recycled confessions….for the defintive headling GigaOm “five facts on Google Phone.”
REALLY? Malik has had to eat his Google “facts” before (actually, NOT eat them) when he (in)famously shot down a TechCrunch “rumor,” by headling last October “YouTube, Google…fuggedaboutit”:
“The deal has as much chance of happening as me dropping 40 pounds.”
Subsequent to the deal actually happening, at $1.65 billion, Malik promised to make ammends by going on a diet.
Malik is apparently more confident in his “reliable source” on Google Phone, than has was in the TechCrunch and Wall Street Journal pre GooTube talk; His “source” apparently has been reading the Simeon Simenov blog, from “eons ago.”
Among the “facts” Malik offers: Initially there was “one prototype” now there are “three to five devices.” Heads or tails, which one then?
GigaOm’s fact finding, in fact, does not present much differently than Scott Krisner’s “The Boston Globe” purported definitive “Introducing the Google Phone,” that relies on non-information from people bound by non-disclosure agreements!
Krisner’s bottom-line “scoop”:
To actually get a gandre at Google’s phone, we’ ll have to wait until the company is good and ready.
YES! The only real “fact” of the the Google Phone matter.
Top Googler Eric Schmidt, however, has shared with the world fun, Googley mobile facts of his own, that I recap below for your Google Phone rumor pleasure:
November 2006:
1) “Your mobile phone should be free.”
2) As advertising on mobile phones increases, “it just makes sense that subsidies should increase.”
May 2007:
3) “We’ve been internally saying mobile, mobile, mobile…apps, apps, apps.”
4) GPS, cameras…new services will be phone-to-phone, “SMS gone wild.”
5) “Ads in the mobile phone are twice as profitable or more than the nonmobile phone ads because they are more personal.”
July 2007:
6) “encourage much needed competition in the wireless and broadband markets…when Americans can use the software and handsets of their choice, over open and competitive networks, they win.”
THEY WOULD WIN EVEN MORE, OF COURSE WITH A POWERED BY GOOGLE MOBILE LOGO IN THE WIRELESS PICTURE.
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