The gPhone Blog

A member "Madnezz" on the Mobile Burn Forums posted a Screenshot on the forums regarding some Survey he participated in a survey on the www.epic-surveys.com as the link shows up here :-



The Pic shown for gPhone therein was :-



He calls him a fool himself for not taking screenshots of the whole survey instead of that only one. According to him

i totally forgot to take a screen shot of the specs but they seemed decent, not mind blowing
had the usual in par of 3g/wifi etc, had a camera 2megapixal from what i recall, feel really stupid for now taking a screenshot of the specs not lol

Google makes relevant information and communication tools easily accessible wherever you are.
The Google Phone brings the power of the internet in your pocket, in a simple and intuitive device. It combines the traditional voice and SMS capabilities of phones with all the exciting Google services from the PC such as Search, Gmail, Maps, Blogger...
The Google Phone, designed by Samsung, is a very thin and stylish handset with a large screen and a QWERTY keypad so that it provides a real internet experience.
All these internet services will be available under a simple Internet monthly flat fee, comparable to PC Broadband products, giving you transparency and control over your mobile bill. Thanks to simple, relevant advertising, Google will even give you a 3 month discount on your mobile Internet monthly flat fee.

A blogger came up with a concept caller "The REAL GPhone.""..

It had become quite famous.. and got listed at many places like.. Techmeme


But when i went there to read it.. Unfortunately enough.. the post had been removed.. :(

Could not even get it on google cache.. I think this post had resulted into some controversy.. and Google using its powers got it removed from that site and even from its own cache.

But after 'wasting' some of my time going through here and there and 'googleling' for different keywords, I found what I was looking for.

Here it is :-
Quoted from Bruce MacVarish

Simeon Simeonov of Polaris Ventures offers inside scoop on the Google gPhone...

"Andy Rubin has a team of about 100 people at Google working on the Google Phone. So people have been paying attention. Andy was the founder of Danger and later Android, which he sold to Google in August of 2005. Andy is a systems guy and so it’s a good bet that he’s working on an OS for the famed Google Phone.

To help the cause, in July 2005 Google also acquired Reqwireless, a mobile applications company that has apparently played a role in developing the suite of Google mobile apps.

What is more or less unknown is that later in 2005, Google bought Skia. (That acquisition is not part of even the Wikipedia list of Google acquisitions and there is very little information about this on the Net.) Skia was founded by Mike Reed, a device software guru who’d built a very tight vector-based presentation engine. I looked the company as a potential investment in August 2005, a few months before Google got them. The demos I saw were pretty compelling given the early stage of the technology at the time and Mike certainly knew what he was doing."

And Charles Ying who downloaded the Skia code that Google open-sourced... and then saw Google remove the code... wonders what is the legal status of the Skia code he has now...

Last year, Google open sourced the Skia vector graphics engine and placed the code up on Google Code under an Apache license. I heard about it through the grapevine (not from Mike) and downloaded a copy to take a peek. Shortly thereafter, the code disappeared.

So a Google Phone leveraging a SVG / Flash-lite rendering engine optimized for Java on C++ that will be running Google Apps and VoIP (Gtalk or Skype?) with Google marketing the phone/services and carriers fulfulling behind the scenes for a slice of the revenue.