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Posted by Herb Oxley on November 10, 2007, 4:13 pm
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> Google's Visionary Phone Plan
> Aired: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 11-12PM ET
> http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2007/11/20071107_b_main.asp
> By Tom Ashbrook
[...]
> It was a vision of cellphones as the new PC; of the web rich and deep
> and always present in everyone's hand; of freestyle armies of
> creative geeks firing up a new cellphone software platform called
> "Android."
How "rich and deep" a Web experience can be delivered by a device small
enough to be a personal accessory and held in one hand?
Man-o-man I sure do smell marketeer snake oil here!
> Your next phone may be free, with Google ads and the whole world in your hand.
Will Google wind up buying Sprint? I can't see how they could make an
ad-supported phone service work unless they own the phone company.
> mms://realserver.bu.edu:554/w/b/wbur/onpoint/2007/11/op_1107b.wma
> http://realserver.bu.edu:8080/ramgen/w/b/wbur/onpoint/2007/11/op_1107b.rm
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Herb Oxley (speaks only for himself)
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