The Gphone - Googles Next Big Thing.

Published: July 8, 2008, 11:05 pm

Unlike Apple’s iPhone, the Gphone or Google phone is not really a physical phone, but an attempt by Google to create a world where everyone is always within arms reach of being able to access Google’s products and services. Consider the following situation. You are having dinner at a restaurant, and decide to go see a movie after you finish eating. You then pull out your cell phone, push a button to activate the voice recognition software, and speak “find nearby movie theaters”. Your phone then determines your physical location, and up pops a map of nearby movie theaters. You touch the icon for the nearest theater, up pops the movies that are playing, their showtimes, and a 20% off coupon if you reserve your seats by touching the coupon icon. You are about to make the reservation, but off to the side you notice two advertisements for movie downloads. You touch the first one and up pops a 50% off offer from Netflix. You touch the

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