MacDailyNews Take: “Everything” being a string of over-hyped “iPhone killers” whose sole constant isn’t a uniform feature set for developers, but mediocre or worse unit sales. Some warm up.
Arrington continues, “Google is building their own branded phone that they’ll sell directly and through retailers. They were long planning to have the phone be available by the holidays, but it has now slipped to early 2010. The phone will be produced by a major phone manufacturer but will only have Google branding (Microsoft did the same thing with their first Zunes, which were built by Toshiba).”
MacDailyNews Take: Does this mean that, aside from being derivative, they’ll be brown and thick as a brick, too?
Arrington continues, “There won’t be any negotiation or compromise over the phone’s design of features – Google is dictating every last piece of it. No splintering of the Android OS that makes some applications unusable. Like the iPhone for Apple, this phone will be Google’s pure vision of what a phone should be.”
MacDailyNews Take: Based totally on Apple’s vision, of course. As pilfered by Schmidt The Boardroom Mole over many months spent kneeling at the feet of Steve Jobs. The fact is: Google knows about as much about designing devices as Michael Arrington.
Arrington continues, “One source told us that HTC, a Taiwanese company, is building the new Google phone, but we think that information is incorrect. We have some fairly good information that suggests Google is working with a Korean phone manufacturer on the Google phone – LG or Samsung. Samsung has multiple parts in the iPhone and could be pressured by Apple not to work with Google, which says LG is the more likely partner for Google.”
MacDailyNews Take: Oh, by the way, Logic Flaw: South Korea’s LG signs 5-year LCD supply deal with Apple, nets $500 million advance – January 12, 2009.
Arrington presses on, “But either way, the best information we have right now points directly at Korea as the birthplace of the Google Phone. We’ve also heard from a good source that Google is planning a big advertising push around the device early next year – like January.”
MacDailyNews Take: So, Google’s big advertising push is to begin right after millions of people activate their new iPhones on Christmas morning. Genius.
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “iSteve” for the heads up.]
