Google Android Phones

Los Angeles Times

Google Inc. has been letting its employees test a new cellphone that could be rolled out to consumers as soon as next month, potentially marking its first foray into the business of selling mobile phones.

The Internet search giant already has its own Android operating system installed on phones sold by major wireless carriers including Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile. But bloggers and recent news reports have raised the possibility that Google may sell its own “unlocked” phone — one that could be used with more than one service provider… Read more.

The Wall Street Journal

With an eye toward future growth, wireless-phone companies plan to encourage all of their customers to get “smart.”

In other words, they want customers to buy or upgrade to devices like an Apple iPhone, Palm Pre or the latest Motorola handsets such as the fast-selling Droid. Each of these mobile phones also includes powerful computer-like functions that make them “smarter” than traditional wireless handsets… Read more.

USA Today

Giving someone a smartphone is like giving them a mini computer, with scads of downloadable applications.
If you’re shopping for one, you’ll first want to see what’s available from your preferred carrier, says analyst Michael Gartenberg at researcher Interpret… Read more.

U.S. News & World Report

Google’s Android could be running on 18 percent of smartphones by 2012, say analysts at Gartner Group. That could put the Google phones second only to Nokia… Read more.

PC World

But can Motorola replicate the success of the late RAZR and create an iconic Google Android phone to threaten Apple’s iPhone? Ailing Motorola may just be on…Read more.

CNET News

Motorola’s and Verizon Wireless’ $100 million marketing campaign for the Motorola Droid seems to be paying off with strong sales that will likely result in more than 1 million devices being sold by the end of the year… Read more.

Chicago Daily Herald

Motorola Inc.’s Droid handled the second-most traffic among mobile phones equipped with Google Inc.’s Android operating system two weeks after the handset’s introduction, according to market researcher Admob Inc….Read more.

Salt Lake Tribune

Google is finally gearing up to introduce its own branded cell phone that will use Google’s Android operating system. Web blog, techcrunch, has confirmed… Read more.

San Francisco Chronicle - Mark Sullivan

PC World

We won’t be discussing the Google Phone any further here today (you can thank me later), but we will be keeping with the spirit of trivial competition… Read more.