Gah!!!!! the gPhone is not the gPhone!!!!">Gah!!!!! the gPhone is not the gPhone!!!!
So read [here](http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/11/googles-mobile-.html). Then, read [here](http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/index.html). And [here](http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/googlephone/index.html) and [here](http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/G/GOOGLE_MOBILE?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-11-05-11-04-01) and… well, you get the picture.
Or maybe not.
For weeks, arguably months depending on how connected you are to technology and gadget news, there’s been this rumbling that Google was coming alone with a phone of their own, and that it was going to be a competitor to Windows Mobile.
And for the most part… what they’re doing is. They’re developing with a bunch of partners on the service provider side and the hardware side… they’re developing a competitive OS platform for phones. Except that it’s not only competing with Windows Mobile, which even to my Microsoft-bashing-self is remarkably solid, if unexciting. It’s also going to compete with Symbian, which is what Motorola uses for the most part. So sure… it’d be nice to have a tighter integration on a mobile platform with all my Google apps, like Gmail, Maps, Calendar, Documents, YouTube… but, uh…. so what?
The rumors were talking about free phones with unlimited text messaging on a wireless spectrum that Google would own and just kinda… give… away, provided you agreed to get the trademarked unobtrusive advertising on the phone. So basically, everyone in the world could get hold of a mobile device that would work just about everywhere with ultra-high-speed access to the Internet. And you could access youtube and whatever else you wanted.
And for us in the content development business, even the sliver of us that do learning, education and training content — that meant that you’d have a ubiquitous default device that you could develop for as its own platform. And how cool would that be? Well, for me, that would’ve been pretty sweet and truly paradigm shifting.
But that’s not happening anytime soon. So while I was holding my breath about getting an iPhone, thinking that I might just rather get the gPhone… well, when my service contract is up, I’ll likely be picking up that iPhone.
Unless the Android system is flippin’ sweet. But it’ll have to be now. Because the more my co-workers and friends (and parents) pick up iPhones and iPod Touches.. the more I wants one. The more I wants to build for it.
Which raises the question again, because I’m impertinent: where’s my Flash Player on the iPhone? It’s been months now!
