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Unlocked & Unleashed

**UPDATE 3:08 AM EST 12/13/09: Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Google Phone will be called the Nexus One**
Coming to Any Sore Near you
That’s right folks, you heard right. The Google Phone is CONFIRMED! It exists. Period. It is made by HTC and will be unlocked, just like all the rumors said it was going to be. SO I guess that means for all you Google Phone Haters out there, you must be having a pretty hard time fessing up getting smacked down with the fact that you were wrong, aren’t you?

Ok, so here’s the deal…
So, as of December 11 2009, employees of Google started tweeting the news that Google has handed out probably hundreds of these phones to their employees. They call this practice “dogfooding.” The official Google Mobile blog stated that it did in fact hand out some devices to their employees, but because

“…dogfooding is a process exclusively for Google employees, we cannot share specific product details. We hope to share more after our dogfood diet.”

What’s Under the Hood?
Not very much is known about the device, but TechCrunch was able to confirm a few details and Unlocker.com was able to get heir hands on some pics of it and it appears as if it is a version of the HTC Passion, a close cousin of the Hero. It will supposedly be released in January of 2010.

The Google Phone will run Android 2.1 and it will be as the Google Gods intended it to be with no splintering off of it, meaning it will runt eh way ti was intended to run… Apps and all. And of course it is an Unlocked GSM phone meaning that AT&T or T-Mobile will probably run with it, it has an ungodly camera for a smartphone, and a beautiful touchscreen with an on screen QWERTY. But for those who don’t like the on-screen keypad, the phone supposedly will come equipped with voice to text, meaning you can talk and the software will convert it to email or a text message and send it for you. The Google is said to be really fast too, and that is because it is running a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor-1Ghz. It also has two mics to limit any unwanted background noise, which is perfect for the talk to text feature.

And the Verdict Is?
I honestly wonder why anyone doubted that Google would come out with a phone al their own. I understand why some people might think it will hurt sales because being as the Google Phone is unlocked, it might do a bit better than any of the other “Google phones,” or the phones with other companies running the Android OS in one form or another.

But I really don’t think it will be a problem. I mean, these people are locked into contracts so the ones who have phones can’t go anywhere unless they pay those horrifying fees, and the people who don’t have an Android based phone yet might not want to spring for the Google phone based on price, as unlocked phones tend to be twice as expensive than their locked counterparts without a contract. So it could really go either way. I m just glad it is finally here, aren’t you?

I mean at least when Google says they are going to do something, they do. Not like some “bad apples” I know of…

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