According to The Times newspaper Google has confirmed that it's working on a basic mobile phone to bring online advertising expertise into the handheld market. It seems that their interest is all about access for those without a PC at home - sound familiar?
Google is working on a basic mobile phone to extend its dominance in internet advertising to handheld devices, according to analysts.
Richard Windsor, of Nomura, the broker, said that Google representatives had talked about a device at an industry event in Germany. The report followed remarks by a Google executive in Spain, who admitted the company is working on a handset.
"Google has come out of the closet at the CeBIT trade fair admitting that it is working on a mobile phone of its own," Mr Windsor wrote in a research note. "This is not going to be a high-end device but a mass market device aimed at bringing Google to users who don't have a PC."
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This isn't an entirely new story as The Observer reported something similar in December 2006 as a possible tie-up between Orange and Google (see
here).
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