{"id":5284,"date":"2008-09-19T07:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T05:58:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-09-19T07:58:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T05:58:00","slug":"first-google-phone-to-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/5284-first-google-phone-to-debut.html","title":{"rendered":"First &#039;Google phone&#039; to debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US telecom carrier T-Mobile is slated to unveil on September 23 a &quot;Googlephone&quot; built by Taiwanese firm HTC and to have the device for sale in stores as early as October (<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/photos\/showphoto.php\/photo\/6312\" target=\"_blank\">Google HTC Dream image here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Google is hoping Android will become the dominant operating system for mobile phones. It is designed to improve the speed and quality of using the Internet on handsets.<\/p>\n<p>Android is being developed as an &quot;open source&quot; platform, meaning anyone is free to use the technology to make mobile telephones compatible with the networks of multiple carriers.<\/p>\n<p>Google announced Android plans late last year and analysts reacted by saying it could potentially transform the mobile telephone market by providing service supported by advertising instead of subscription fees.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We are seeing a number of technology companies demonstrating how Android will operate on their technology,&quot; Google spokesman Barry Schnitt said at a Mobile World Congress gathering in Spain early this year.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Clearly momentum is building.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Google announced a 34-member group called the &quot;Open Handset Alliance&quot; in November of 2007 to develop Android, including China Mobile, HTC, Intel, Motorola, Qualcomm, T-Mobile, Telefonica, LG and eBay.<\/p>\n<p>ARM, Marvell, Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, NEC, ST Microelectronics were reportedly among companies that demonstrated Android phone prototypes at Mobile World Congress.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=136332\"><strong>Google Phone discussion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mobile telephone tailored to run on Google&#039;s Android software is to debut next week in New York City. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}