Linux to power Google GPhone?

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Aug 5, 2007 5:28 AM EDT
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Google's first mobile phone will run a Linux operating system on a Texas Instruments "Edge" chipset, and will likely ship to T-Mobile and Orange customers in the Spring of 2008, according to unconfirmed reports. "GPhone" call minutes and text messages reportedly will be funded by mobile advertising. News of the so-called "GPhone" or "G-Phone" broke quietly about two weeks ago in the island nation of Singapore, where Jennifer Tan of Reuters subsidiary Anian Research filed a report on July 12.

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interesting question maggrand 0 683 Aug 5, 2007 10:30 AM

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