Full FeedIs a free Gphone really coming this time?
TechCrunch is stacking up a bunch of rumors and is purporting that Google really does have a phone of its own brewing that they will bring to market on their own. This pinnacle of Android phone will be all Google power, optimized for every Google service (surely including Google Voice, now with VOIP???) and will be a thing of beauty and amazement for all to drool over. Forgive my sarcasm and hesitation on this one, I’ve been down this road before.
Way back, in 2007, Google said cell phone should be free, supported by advertising. That got me to thinking, they could actually pull that off. After all, Google is an advertising company. Could they finally be prepping a way to make that happen?
Free phones is nothing new but free service, well that would get some attention. After all, those of us with smartphones know the high price we pay to walk around with the internet in our pockets. Could Google be moving to provide free service in exchange for access to our eyeballs?
How could they monetize it? Ads tacked onto emails sent from the phone, ala hotmail? Ads texted to you periodically? I’d put up with that to save the $70+ I spend monthly for service. With pre-screening surveys, Google could make it extremely targeted and a high value ad buy and we’d all agree to it. OK, not all.
Telecoms would have to push the privacy issue to compete. They’d need to raise the fear in handing over all your data and preferences to Google. Their bread and butter are service charges. Google would provide a major disruption here.
What do you think? Is the Google Phone real this time?
Read: [TechCrunch]
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on November 18, 2009 at 03:53 PM - LINK