Google Attack On the Mobile Market Rumored

xchg writes in with a somewhat speculative, though plausible, piece from WiseAndroid claiming that Google is gearing up for an all-out assault on the mobile-phone market that will include a new, Google-branded handset and the first comprehensive Google phone service with unlimited free calls. "The real breakthrough, however, will come with the marriage of the Googlephone to Google Voice, the Californian company’s high-tech phone service. Google Voice gives US users a free phone number and allows unlimited free calls to any phone in the country — landline or mobile. International calls start from... just over a penny a minute. Google Voice also uses sophisticated voice recognition to turn voicemails into emails, can block telemarketing calls automatically and offers free text messaging. Google sounded its intentions two weeks ago when it purchased a small company called Gizmo5... [E]xperts are predicting that the Googlephone will be launched in the US early next year."

Yeah, but that is not the real story.

[WindBourne]

Google called it Android because the planet from where they all come from has lots of Androids. And Oprah, Laura Bush, as well as Michelle Obama are secretly having babies from the top guys of Google.

I think that should cover all the conspiracies.

Re:Creative destruction

[Philip K Dickhead]

You have to pay it off, on terms unilaterally adjusted by the lender, on criteria independent of the contract under which you entered the lending agreement.

Christ, talk about a couple of responses to my post taking a tangental discursion from the actual POINT I was making! And then? DEFENDING predatory lenders who abuse their customers!

Where'd I leave my motherfucking cluestick?

Re:"High-tech phone service?" Maybe if it worked..

[perffectworld]

I haven't used it for outbound calls, but I quite enjoy the many calls from far away numbers that I receive badly transcribed in my inbox from people quitting their jobs, or going on vacation, or trying to find out why their girlfriend hasn't called them back. It's a form of entertainment.

Re:Creative destruction

[Cwix]

Only if it comes with the hot, half naked chick, with a whip.

Re:Creative destruction

[Chris Tucker]

The stench of Randroid droppings is thick in the air tonight.

Somebody open a window!

Re:The article may say something incorrect

[Cwix]

Hmm interesting, where would the ads be placed tho?

Re:Creative destruction

[Anonymous Coward]

Slashdotters hate mobile phones because we don't have any loved ones.

Re:Creative destruction

[onefriedrice]

To me, my constraints all seem reasonable:

• blah blah blah...

You want all that, but you don't also want a pony?