cellrater

Even before Apple announced the iPhone, rumors had been swirling around the tech blogs about the infamous new mobile handset. While the phone is about to drop for the first time in the next few weeks, there are already rumors from Microsoft, Yahoo, and even Google about handsets of their own. Now I have seen screen shots and have been hearing rumors for months about the Google Phone but up until now there hasn’t been any word from Google concerning this nor any reliable source writing an article about the phone… yes, up until now.

The NY Times recently wrote an article titled Big Money in Little Screens where they state that Google isn’t just considering the cellphone market, but they have “gone so far as to build a prototype phone with its own software inside.” The source, according to the NY Times is a supposed insider who “has seen it.”

Typically I wouldn’t argue with the NY times, but if Google is so far into the market that they are already running and testing a prototype then why wouldn’t they announce it and build up some more hype? Maybe articles like this build more hype over time than an announcement a year or two before they are ready to show something? I guess we will just have to wait and see.

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