The gPhone rumor mill is turning at full speed today following a Marketing Week report that Dell and Google will be teaming up to create a smartphone to compete with Apple's own iPhone.
Ever since Dell hired former Motorola executive Ron Garriques last March it has been thought that Dell was working on a smartphone to replace its failed Axim PDA line. Google has also had its fair share of phone rumors with its fabled gPhone that would run on the Android mobile operating system. Though both Dell and Google have long been rumored to be working on smartphones, this is the first time that the suggestion has been made that they would be collaborating together on it.
Google's Android platform would be the main draw of any variation of a gPhone, as it is designed to be a universal mobile operating system that would allow developers to easily create applications that could run on any handset. Of course, Android would also be optimized to bring all of Google's own standard Web applications to a mobile handset. With an application powerhouse like Google behind it, a Dell made gPhone might be just the thing to knock the iPhone off its pedestal.
With no official word from either Dell or Google regarding the partnership, only time will tell what truth may come from this. But the wait might not be a long one, as industry insiders suspect an announcement to be made at next months 3GSM telecoms conference in Barcelona.
I can just picture the Apple commercial now: Hi, I'm an iPhone? Hi I'm a gPhone..
