Googlephone, Part 2: The Return (Update)
About a year after the release of the Android operating system, Google, apparently, is going to release its own smartphone with its own system. On sale in North America, the smartphone should appear in January .
Google employees got smartphones for testing. The Wall Street Journal calls the device "Nexus One" (development name).
HTC received an order for production: a company that has long been developing and producing smartphones with Android, and, I must say, very successfully. Nexus will be sold immediately with the latest version of the system 2.1.
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It is reported that Google will sell the smartphone itself, directly, without a contractual agreement with a mobile operator and sim lock, which is usual for Western countries, which significantly distinguishes it from Apple's competitor, iPhone.
Update Features:
1 GHz Snapdragon processor
3.7 "capacitive OLED touchscreen
5 mp 720p camera
2 microphones for noise removal
Trackball
3D accelerometer
proximity / light sensor
Wi-Fi / Bluetooth / FM (802.11n support will be possible!)
compass
Estimated price: $ 199 , which is significantly lower than the price for any comparable device.
The exact technical details are still unknown, but it is assumed that the smartphone will be technically similar to the HTC Bravo / Passion.
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At the same time, Eldar Murtazin says that the Google Phone is a myth.
Here is a detailed article that does not shine, unfortunately, with logic.
In my opinion, Google would not hurt to break away from the pure development of software and start selling their system with "their" hardware.
Many companies, such as Nokia or Vodafone, do not like and do not want to see Android on their products.
The fact is that android prevents them from developing and selling their services to customers. Namely, services that are difficult / impossible to refuse to the buyer, give the greatest profit, although they are inconvenient, are often not needed and generally hinder progress. Starting to develop its services based on Android, as Motorola does, is to give control over your product, even partially.
Therefore, vodafone makes 360 together with Samsung, and Nokia is still trying to start up with no one anybody Ovi.
Even looking at HTC, you can see that WinMobile, which is outdated and has lost its popularity, is still placed on smartphones with the best hardware and the latest developments. Naturally, HTC gets a decent amount of money from Microsoft for it, which still doesn’t reach the 7th version.
What remains for Google, how not to get around all these parasites with their unsuccessful developments, and start selling an excellent piece of hardware to people directly for almost the cost price? Someone would call it aggressive marketing, but we will definitely benefit from this struggle.
Of course, Samsung, Motorola, LG, etc., as members of the Open Handset Alliance will be annoyed, but Android has already won the hearts of people, in the AppStore thousands of successful applications - where will they go? Your system will start to develop, better than the iPhone and Android? Do not tell, if Nokia and Microsoft can not cope.
Google needs one good exclusive partner and sales over the Internet - and then Google Voice and in general any development needed by people and not needed by mobile operators will appear on the market without discussion.
Google employees got smartphones for testing. The Wall Street Journal calls the device "Nexus One" (development name).
HTC received an order for production: a company that has long been developing and producing smartphones with Android, and, I must say, very successfully. Nexus will be sold immediately with the latest version of the system 2.1.
')
It is reported that Google will sell the smartphone itself, directly, without a contractual agreement with a mobile operator and sim lock, which is usual for Western countries, which significantly distinguishes it from Apple's competitor, iPhone.
Update Features:
1 GHz Snapdragon processor
3.7 "capacitive OLED touchscreen
5 mp 720p camera
2 microphones for noise removal
Trackball
3D accelerometer
proximity / light sensor
Wi-Fi / Bluetooth / FM (802.11n support will be possible!)
compass
Estimated price: $ 199 , which is significantly lower than the price for any comparable device.
The exact technical details are still unknown, but it is assumed that the smartphone will be technically similar to the HTC Bravo / Passion.
inside - more ( update )
/ update
At the same time, Eldar Murtazin says that the Google Phone is a myth.
Here is a detailed article that does not shine, unfortunately, with logic.
In my opinion, Google would not hurt to break away from the pure development of software and start selling their system with "their" hardware.
Many companies, such as Nokia or Vodafone, do not like and do not want to see Android on their products.
The fact is that android prevents them from developing and selling their services to customers. Namely, services that are difficult / impossible to refuse to the buyer, give the greatest profit, although they are inconvenient, are often not needed and generally hinder progress. Starting to develop its services based on Android, as Motorola does, is to give control over your product, even partially.
Therefore, vodafone makes 360 together with Samsung, and Nokia is still trying to start up with no one anybody Ovi.
Even looking at HTC, you can see that WinMobile, which is outdated and has lost its popularity, is still placed on smartphones with the best hardware and the latest developments. Naturally, HTC gets a decent amount of money from Microsoft for it, which still doesn’t reach the 7th version.
What remains for Google, how not to get around all these parasites with their unsuccessful developments, and start selling an excellent piece of hardware to people directly for almost the cost price? Someone would call it aggressive marketing, but we will definitely benefit from this struggle.
Of course, Samsung, Motorola, LG, etc., as members of the Open Handset Alliance will be annoyed, but Android has already won the hearts of people, in the AppStore thousands of successful applications - where will they go? Your system will start to develop, better than the iPhone and Android? Do not tell, if Nokia and Microsoft can not cope.
Google needs one good exclusive partner and sales over the Internet - and then Google Voice and in general any development needed by people and not needed by mobile operators will appear on the market without discussion.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/78162/
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