Google Denies Mobile Phone Claims
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Written By Kate Zimmermann | March 21, 2007 | Share This
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Just a week after Google’s Chief Executive in Spain and Portugal “confirmed” that a future Google Phone was in R & D, the Sydney Morning Herald reports,
“Google has poured cold water on claims it is developing a mobile phone. The search giant said it was more logical to form partnerships with existing handset makers instead…Google’s chief internet evangelist, Vinton Cerf, [said] that building hardware would be a dramatic shift in the company’s business model.”
Google is instead “very focused on software” and seeks to extend its search technology to existing mobile providers. As Engadget points out, however,
“[no one] has come straight out and denied an actual device, or taken steps to contradict Isabel Aguilera’s statements about a low-end phone in the works.”
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