Google Phone becomes Reality

Various ‘very trustworthy’ sources have confirmed a Google mobile device platform, or OS, to be revealed in the near future. The new Google offering, christened by various blogs as the ‘Gphone OS’, is expected to hit handhelds in 1Q 2008, if not earlier.

The new OS apparently began development after Google’s 2005 acquisition of Android, a mobile software company. The Android team is currently shopping around a Linux-based mobile device OS that provides a customizable system, ostensibly with great Google integration. Read the whole story at searchviews.com

Google's mobile Applikationen

Picasa Web Albums
New! View your photo albums on your mobile device.


Google offers the following services for mobile devices:

Calendar
New! Check your Google Calendar schedule from anywhere on your mobile device.

Search
Search the web and find exactly what you're looking for no matter where you are.

Gmail
Read and compose emails and view attachments all in an interface specifically designed for your mobile device.

News
Stay informed of global and local events at all times by accessing top headlines and searching for articles.



Visit mobile.google.com
on your mobile web browser.

Google Using OpenMoko For gPhone?

There has been a new batch of rumors swirling about Google producing a "gPhone" mobile telephone after a Reuters reporter stated High Tech Computer Corp would be designing the Linux phone for Google. A friendly penguin has told us at Phoronix that Google is looking to team up with OpenMoko for their "gPhone". Google will not be using the FIC Neo1973 GTA01, but they will be bringing the open-source OpenMoko platform to their own hardware, which looks to be manufactured through HTC, and making a few changes along the way.

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Google bietet eigene iPhone Suche an

Eigentlich ist Google auf dem mobilen Sektor schon sehr gut vertreten, aber dennoch scheut man nicht davor zurück eine eigene Suche für das iPhone anzubieten. Mithilfe der AJAX Search API wird eine Suchfunktion mit sehr vielen Einschränkungen angeboten die optimal auf das iPhone-Display passt.

Zur Zeit wird die Möglichkeit geboten im normalen Web, in den News und mit der Bildersuche zu suchen. Die einzelnen Ergebnisse werden dynamisch nachgeladen und passen von der Breite her genau auf den iPhone-Bildschirm.