GooglePhone Makes No Sense. But, a Google iPod touch Killer Might

From the Times Online in the UK, we hear (again)…

The Googlephone: Google gears up for attack on mobile-phone market

I keep reading quoting various analysts that Google is getting ready to product its own branded Android phone. This article speculates that HTC might be the hardware manufacturer (HTC created the first Android phone, the G1, as well as the current T-Mobile Android phone, the myTouch 3G).

If HTC were the only Android phone manfacturer, I might believe this speculation. But, there are several hardware partners with Android phones available for sale today. Why would Google alienate these partners by producing its own branded phone. This doesn’t make any sense to me.

Unless… It is not a GooglePhone at all but some kind of iPod touch competitor without a GSM (or CDMA) radio. Now, that would be interesting and make sense.

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