Google Phone Navel Gazing

Move over iPhone. The tech world is now drawing its attention to a rumored gPhone.

Reports are popping up everywhere that Google is shopping around prototypes of mobile phones. Confirmation came from a report from The Wall Street Journal. It reported Google has built prototype cell phones, to be mass-produced by multiple hardware manufacturers.

What might those phones look like? Just as iPhone prototypes began popping up on the Web (long before Apple made an official announcement), so are Google phone prototypes.

Don't expect anyone to guess correctly what a gPhone might look like. But that hasn't stopped designers from dreaming. Here are some images I rounded up on the Web of prototype Google phones (and one prototype iPhone) linking back to the sources where I found them.

Oh boy, this designer was way off. Impact Lab posted this prototype of the iPhone in 2005.

Earlier this year IntoMobile and other Web sites posted this prototype Google phone.

Here is a sleek design from a UK-based gadget Web site called T3.

Here is an unlikely candidate from a Turkish site SuniPeyk.

I doubt when and if a real image of a Google phone does surface it will look anything like these models. Plus, I'm convinced Google's billion dollar bid for 700MHz wireless spectrum and its interest in the mobile phone market has more to do with selling ads and putting its software on handsets - not making them.

More interesting to me is what a mobile Google software platform or interface would look like and what it could do.

Comments

Looking forwardward to it! Keep the news coming.

http://www.GoogleMobilePhone.net

gaines

August 04, 2007

4:01 PM PT