New Media Exploration : The Google Phone

Behold, the mighty GOOGLE PHONE!
There is alot of buzz going around right now about whether the google phone will be an iPhone killer. At this point its hard to tell since many of the google phones specs have yet to be released. In fact, this image of the google phone may not even be real, there is some speculation that it is a fake photo shopped image since it was not officially released by Google. I think its real though, so we'll go with it.

One thing I really like about this phone is that it's not trying to force silly technology's on the consumer like a touch screen. Personally, I think I touch screen is completely stupid. The only plus is that you have more viewing real estate since the buttons can "disappear". Personally, I like to actually be able to feel the buttons I'm pressing. It's called tactile response. Think about it, would you want a full sized touch screen keyboard, no. Anyways, that was my rant about that.

Some facts about the phone:

-The google phone will have advertisements enabled, one thing that many other phones do not. They are doing this to lower the overall monthly phone bill of its users (It's a bit more complicated than that, but basically).

-the OS will be based on Linux, and all apps will be run using java. The OS will also have the ability to run many different multimedia apps, such as movie clips.

-The UI will have a "pan an browse" feature.

-It will have a fully qwerty keypad.

The phone will be designed by SAMSUNG and should be released some time in 2008.