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Google phone makes Wembley debut

Google phone makes Wembley debut An audience at a developers' day held at Wembley Stadium were yesterday given a glimpse of a de-branded Google phone.

No, it wasn't a Dream - which is rumoured to be the name of a new Google phone which T-Mobile is tipped to launch in the US in October.

If you want proof you can log in to YouTube and see an eight-minute demonstration of the handset's capabilities on a Wembley big screen which has shakily been filmed (hopefully not illegally) by some kind soul / undercover reporter.

Mike Jennings is apparently the man giving the talk and providing a walk-through of the power of the Google software (called Android) which puts the search engine on phones.

The footage shows the Californian engaging in geeky wisecracks as his thumbs pinched, slid and prodded their way across the device's touchscreen and keypad.

Viewing the phone's screen in landscape profile, the Google icon soon flashed up and Jennings used the GPS satellite dish icon to take the audience to a satellite view of Wembley.

The Google man claimed to have spent two hours writing his own applications on the device and was keen to proudly show off the results.

Google is expected to put clear water between itself and Apple, makers of the iPhone, by not attempting to lock down the system to prevent people running whatever applications they like.


In other mobile-related news, a Liverpudlian linguistics expert has been busy promoting his book Txtng: The Gr8 Db8 (for non-text people that means 'Texting: the great debate').

There is nothing the least bit predictive about the text written in the book that author David Crystal (who has that reassuringly professorial Father Christmas beard and corduroy jacket look) has come up with.

Mr Crystal told The Guardian: "There is no evidence that texting teaches people to spell badly: rather, research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, because you have to know how to manipulate language to use text abbreviations correctly."

I cld hv tld u tht mi slf.

Google phone news posted on 17 September 2008

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