gPhone-Google patents cell phone

Web company Google has applied for a patent for something called the “gPhone”, apparentely a mobile phone created by Google. Google’s enormously successful search engine and other applications have made it into an Internet giant, much like Facebook and Wikipedia have become. The gPhone could potentially be a smartphone or a regular normal phone, but its Internet features would no doubt be far more advanced then the cell phone’s on today’s market. Network World has reported that the gPhone will be “an open source software operating system”, and other reports state that as many as 30 prototype gPhones exist as of now. The gPhone could potentially take a chunk out of the sales that Apple’s iPhone currently reports. Little information has been released on the specifics of the gPhone, but it can be expected that it will contain several unique features that the iPhone does not.

As of this month, Google and Sprint are rumored to be in negotiations regarding the gPhone, apparentely showing that Sprint will provide service for the gPhone, like AT&T does for the iPhone. Verizon is also rumored to have spoken with Google.

Make sure to check back for any updates regarding the gPhone, as I will be following the story closely. This is Kolametal, signing off.