Customers are already flooded with too many smartphone models. Android, iPhone, Microsoft Mobile and many more. Though Google have already launched Android and have licensed it for any vendors, it turns out that Google still has its surprise device hidden. gPhone is supposed to be the ultimate smartphone resulting from the partnership of Google and HTC. It is interesting to see how this will affect the market of Android. Will gPhone is be inside the community of Android or different from them?
The total selling point of gPhone would be anti iPhone, with a slogan “Own the experience” whereas iPhone had “We control the user experience.” Its no doubt that Google is trying to break the control of Apple over the smartphone business.
Google will reportedly sell its phone directly to customers as well as through retailers. That suggests the search giant may not have a network partner on board, and would sell unsubsidized phones instead. Phones sold outside of the carrier system means the Google phone could cost as much as $500, and would have to run on a SIM-friendly GSM networks such as AT&T and T-Mobile.
While a carrier-free Google phone would be an unusual move in the age of exclusivity contracts, it’s not unheard of. Handset makers such as RIM and Palm sell unlocked versions of their smartphones through Amazon and other retailers.
The suggestion that the phone will not be tied to a specific carrier, backs up a previous assertion by Northeast Securities analyst Ashok Kumor who made similar claims last month after Google’s “design partners” filled him about the phone, according to the Street.com.
Source : InfoWorld
The battle between iPhone and gPhone is the battle of vision of how a smart phone should look like. The image above is the sketch up of gPhone by an artist. We can already see that gPhone is a similar myth as iTablets.
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Developers who sell applications through the Windows Marketplace for Mobile receive 70% of the revenue, with the other 30% going to Microsoft. Third-party developers are able to set the price for their applications in each market, and can also choose to distribute their products for free.
If this promotion by Google is successful, then not only would Motorola receive a much needed boast, but Google Android will establish itself in the mobile market. At the same time it would indirectly give Apple the competition it has never received.