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Child Prodigy: Android Turns Three

Voices in News on November 5, 2010 at 10:05 am PT

Three years ago today, with many people expecting Google to introduce its own phone, the company instead unveiled a mobile operating system called Android, with CEO Eric Schmidt saying, “Imagine not just one Gphone, but a thousand Gphones as a result of the partnerships.” Today, the fruits of that strategy are reflected in every new market-share report. For the sentimental, the folks at ReadWriteWeb have compiled a lovely baby book, full of pictures and videos chronicling the first years of the precocious OS.

The GPhone Lives: Google Uncrates the Nexus One “Superphone”

John Paczkowski in News on January 5, 2010 at 10:17 am PT

During an Android demo in April 2008, Steve Horowitz, one of the original engineers working on Google’s Android platform, said, “I’m here to tell you there is actually no GPhone.” Now, not two years later, Google is telling us something different. There is a GPhone, its name is Nexus One and Google officially unveiled it this morning at an event at its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters.

Google Tries Redialing “Click to Call” Again

Peter Kafka in Media on January 5, 2010 at 7:24 am PT

Here’s an interesting side note to GPhone (a.k.a. “Nexus One”) day–Google is still experimenting with its “click-to-call” program for advertisers on “high-end mobile devices.” Coincidence?

The Mysterious GPhone Unveiled: A Slideshow History

Drake Martinet in Mobile on January 5, 2010 at 12:01 am PT

Journey through a series of photos documenting the long march to the announcement of Google’s Nexus One phone. It has been, as you will see, a very long and winding road to the phone’s unveiling today in Silicon Valley.

Gphone Debut Complicated by Its Nonexistence

John Paczkowski in News on June 2, 2008 at 11:21 am PT

When the first phones based on Google’s Android mobile operating system arrive at market in the second half of 2008, the so-called “Gphone” won’t be among them, says TheStreet.com. Which makes perfect sense really, because Google’s never said it was building a Gphone.

Intel, Not ARM, Inside …

John Paczkowski in News on June 2, 2008 at 11:00 am PT

Joy of Tech: The gPhone Edition

Kara Swisher in News on November 12, 2007 at 12:03 am PT

More from the cartoon dudette and dude–Nitrozac and Snaggy–over at Geek Culture’s Joy of Tech, whose work will be appearing more regularly on this site, since we all could use a good laugh. This time at the expense of the eminently mockable gPhone from Google–or lack thereof! Click on the image to make it bigger:

So Much for the 'Gphone'

John Paczkowski in News on November 5, 2007 at 11:00 am PT

So Much for the ‘Gphone’

John Paczkowski in News on November 5, 2007 at 11:00 am PT

Android: the Unphone

John Paczkowski in News on November 5, 2007 at 10:31 am PT

“This is the Gphone. OK, this is not the Gphone.” The words of Iliyan Malchev, a Google engineer, in a video describing the company’s new mobile phone effort, really couldn’t have been more apt. Because what Google’s gone and built isn’t a hold-in-your-hand phone, but a robust open-development platform upon which to build one. Android, [...]

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