Tech News: Ogle Over New Google Phone

Affectionately known as GPhone/Android, the G1 is about to drop, if you go online to YouTube you can search personal video of the unveiling of the prototype at a conference (with duck tape masking logos and the makers names. Google and T-Mobile's G1 phone is ready for its mega debut (iPhone looks like you were just a flash in the pan).

It will have:

• Touch screen
• Customizable home screen
• Phone flips open for a full QWERTY keyboard
• Three megapixel camera
• Google Maps Street View—this is where my jaw dropped. You can pan in the Street View photos by just moving the phone in the direction you want the image to turn. (!)
• One-touch Google search

Google’s blog released a number of bold predictions of what the future might hold for phones as they see it:

· Smart Alerts: Your phone will let you know if something has happened that impacts you or needs your attention.

· Augmented Reality: Your phone will tell you information about your location, desires or needs before you are even aware of them.

· Instant Crowd Sourcing: You’ll be able to use your phone to review the most recent uploads of images, music, text, Tweets and blog posts by persons in your vicinity and you can go interact with them (after receiving directions from your phone).

· Sensory Perception: Weather updates, traffic reports, news events - these will all be at your fingertips the instant they are available.

· Business Tool: Your phone as your meal ticket, allowing you to work remotely, track your investments, keep up with clients, build your business and increase your communication ability.

· Intelligent Phones: Web 2.0 comes to mobile, where you can create apps on the fly, add content to your site and your phone will automatically download the latest updates to your favorite apps based on your preferences. Your phone *learns* based on your activity and makes it easier for you to use over time.

As Google prepares to take over the world, (now through telecommunications, aerospace satellites and its own personal navy) these two quote seem ominous:

“Sensors everywhere: Your phone knows a lot about the world around you. If you take that intelligence and combine it in the cloud with that of every other phone, we have an incredible snapshot of what is going on in the world right now.”

“Safer software through trust and verification: Your phone will provide tools and information to empower you to decide what to download, what to see, and what to share.”

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/future-of-mobile.html