Google Phone: Myth or Reality?

After so many rumors, the time has come for Google to enter the communication market with either a mobile phone, specific services, software or all of the above. A little while ago, the Skype phone was just a rumor, but guess what - it has been officially launched yesterday. There have been lots of rumors regarding Google and its near entering on the mobile phone market. Let's remember some of these and see how much truth may be in each of these.

First rumor regards the manufacture of a pure Google Phone, which will offer the whole range of Google services such as: Google Maps, Search Engine, Gmail, and many more. Secondly, it was said that the Google Phone will most likely run a Linux-based operating system, so that it would ease the development of new softwares and applications. More recently, Google approached important mobile phones manufacturers like HTC and LG about a partnership regarding the manufacture of a mobile that will include specific Google software. Furthermore, Google has been in close relationship with various well-known wireless operators like T-Mobile (USA), Orange (France) and 3 (UK), in the hope of a larger market for the future coming Google phone. Latest rumor says that Google will make its entry on the mobile market, or at least make an important announcement, in mid-November.

If it's about the Google Phone, then it will surely include its most successful services and applications such as: Google Maps, YouTube, Gmail, but also it will be an "open" mobile. Which means that any developer will be able to get access to the tools for building more applications that will add new features to the phone. This strategy fits perfectly the new trend of the mobile market, which faces or risks to face huge lawsuits regarding the distribution of "locked" mobile phones by important cellphone carriers.

In the end, Google is forced to work closely with the wireless operators to make its future open platform (if any) viable, because the latter still control the mobile phone market, no matter how many changes will occur, for the moment at least.