Google to Develop the G-Phone = Mobile Device Will Support Shopping/Commerce = Mobile Shopping Will Grow Huge by Spring 2008

Once again, I remind everyone in the eTaildTail community that mobile commerce is here to stay; Google will certainly ensure that they leverage "Google Product Search" and all features related to purchasing products online, in addtion Google Maps, Ad Words and everything else they do into any new mobile device that they createor support. For those who "might" give advice that you should wait to learn all about mobile commece until next year, in my view that is short-sighted. 

My personal advice: learn about mobile commerce now via mPoria.com or mShopper.com and how it can benefit your business so that when Google is up an running THIS SPRING, you, the online small to mid sized business can stay ahead of your competition and make your online e-commerce storefront mobile enabled and profitable.

   

Here is a good summary why....as written by MIKE WENDLAND, convergence Editor and Technology Columnist, over at the Detroit Free Press

-- Chip

Google to develop the G-Phone

"It looks more and more like the long-rumored Google phone is about to become fact. Google is expected to make an announcement later today that it is forming a coalition of software and hardware developers to develop an open source operating system that will truly turn mobile phones into mini-computers.

We have smart phones, to be sure. But this Google development is far beyond that.

Google has reportedly lined up initial support from big carriers like Sprint, hardware makers like Motorola and even the huge and innovative NTT DoCoMo wireless provider that has made Japanese cell phones far more powerful and feature-laden than anything we see in the U.S.

Google's idea is to use the open source Linux operating system to build its mobile phone architecture, supplemented with Java, a powerful computer programming language that runs "scripts," or mini programs.

The phone, which Google hopes will be available by late spring, will heavily showcase Google search, maps, chat, e-mail and, certainly, those omnipresent Google AdWords.

What such a system would do to Google is not unlike what happened to Microsoft when it allowed outside developers access to the underlying code of its Windows operating system that controls computers. Google sees this as a way to greatly increase its exposure and interconnectivity.

As mobile phones more and more become computers, Google wants its so-called G-phone to be its means of continued dominance.

For consumers, that means two things: More cell phone features and cheaper phones."

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