This evening a foreign website is reporting that Google might be gearing up to release their own brand of mobile phones.  Rather than using Motorola, Samsung or Dell, Google will focus on their own brand much like Apple and the iPhone, but even take things a step further by bypassing the national carriers and selling the phone without contract.  The website claims that this is all part of Google’s focus on the new generation of open standards designed to bring mobile Internet devices to consumers.  With the current limitations mobile carriers enforce with exclusive devices it makes more sense for Google to embody the the open standards by selling the device direct to the consumer instead of forcing them to be at the mercy of their current wireless carrier.

So what do we know about this alleged Google brand of Android phones?  Well the focus of the project will be centered around the Qualcomm Snapdragon platform with an overall goal of delivering open, low-cost network-friendly touch-screen devices.  Maybe those classic renderings of the original Google Phone have a bit more credibility now that Android has established itself as a player in the smartphone market.

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