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HTTP:: Google Won 039 t Build Its Own Phone
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Search engine giant Google has been rumored a few times before to plan coming to the market with a handset developed by itself, yet it seems that the company has now stepped up and denied those sayings. Google is not into the phone-making business, according to Andy Rubin, head of Android development.“We're not making hardware,” is what Rubin stated, as Cnet indicates. “We're enabling other people to build hardware.” Rubin's sayings follow the recent rumors that Google would be planning the launch of its own Android-based mobile phone, and that the said device would be set to come to the market before the end of the ongoing year. Google is already known to have had something to do with the development of previously released Android-powered mobile phones, such as the HTC Dream (T-Mobile G1), yet appears that the company's implication in hardware development will not go beyond that. It seems that designing an entire phone, and bringing it to the market would mark “a!
fundamental shift” in Google's approach towards the mobile phone market, something that it is not ready to make at the moment, according to Rubin.What Google seems to have in mind when it comes to mobile phones is what it already does: volume licensing and a close work with handset makers and wireless carriers f...
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