Can a Google Phone Connect With Carriers?
Google Inc. is close to unveiling its long-planned strategy to shake up the wireless market, people familiar with the matter say. The Web giant’s ambitious goal: to make applications and services as accessible on cellphones as they are on the Internet.
In a move likely to kick off an intense debate about the future shape of the cellphone industry, Google wants to make it easier for cellphone customers to get a variety of extra services on their phones — from maps to social-networking features to video-sharing. To get its way, however, the search giant will have to overcome resistance from wireless carriers and deal with potentially thorny security and privacy issues.
Google is trying to loosen the grip wireless carriers have over the software and services consumers can access on cellphones. Carriers have considerable clout, especially in the U.S., where they control distribution of phones to consumers through their retail stores.
Within the next two weeks, Google is expected to announce advanced software and services that would allow handset makers to bring Google-powered phones to market by the middle of next year, people familiar with the situation say.
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October 30th, 2007 at 11:21 am
has Google seen Microsoft’s new Mobile Device Manager? this system allows IT managers to treat Windows Mobile devices as though they were desktops or laptops. this will make Windows Mobile devices a No-Brainer in the enterprise. Imagine an executive thumbing away on her Blackberry. The CTO sees the exec and says, “Do you realize that you are jepardizing security in the entire enterprise with that unauthorized device?”
October 31st, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Watching the Googleization of mobile space unfold is similar to revisiting the dominance of AT&T before the Feds forced the company to break-up in smaller “baby bells” in 1974. Google not only seeks to control Web search, crushing other search engines, Google has invaded the online web-based office applications space, going head-to-head with Microsoft and other services. Its telecommunications and mobile strategies now drive Google into both landline and cellular services (GrandCentral.com, one example). But that doesn’t satisfy a cash-rich company whose mission is to reinvent cellular services. While one welcomes strong business model challenges targeting U.S. carriers, Google has a much grander plan to globally change and control mobile space, as it relentlessly pushes to maximize mobile advertising revenues. At some point, regulators must say “enough.” For my take on the situation, visit my blog post at: http://innovativemobile.blogspot.com/