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Just 3 months before the iPhone hit the market, I hear this rumors on the up-coming Google Phone, Code name “Switch”. The rumors indicates the search engine giant Google is secretly working with Samsung on a new product, a Google Cell Phone. Some truth in the rumors:
- Google acquired Reqwireless Inc. back in July 2005, a company makes Web browser and e-mail software for wireless devices.
- Google acquired Skia, a small company who produced SGL, a portable graphics engine capable of rendering state-of-the-art 2D graphics on low-end devices such as mobile phones. This is somewhat similar to Adobe Flash Lite.
- Google acquired Android who's founder is Andy Rubin, someone with a broad knowledge in mobile devices.

I have always been suspecting Google will eventually move into the mobile devices industry. My old posting “Google GPS” predicted there are just million of reasons for Google to push their Google Map advertisment contents on a mobile device, something may have a built-in GPS chips. Here are some of the “descriptions” of this new Google Phone:
1.Looks like the “blackberry” phones;
2.Linux operating system using C++ core w/ OS bootstrap
3.Support Java applications
4.Build-in GPS chip
5.Supports VoIP
6.Slick 2D Vector Graphic rendering engine

There is even a “leaked” image of this mystery “Google Phone”! Read this old Business Week article from 2005, judge it yourself...

Google's mystery Phone - "Switch" phone. Collaboration with Samsung. This is from un-confirmed source.

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