the Killer is back!

Last year there was quite a bit of hype gathering around rumours of the iPhone killer from Google. When in October it was revealed by an insider at the International Herald Tribune that it was actually a mobile OS, it was pupoted to be Windows Mobile killer. People really seem to love the killer term, or they really wish some things to be killed (I know I do too).

But iDoubt that iPhone would be killed and iHope it isn't. Thanks to Apple, this toy finally made smartphones come out of the dull boardrooms and made them fashionable! Remember the saying "All work and no play makes a phone a BlackBerry"? As for Windows Mobile being killed, while it has amounted to little outside the limited US market, Symbian totally dominating the rest of the world, given WM's weak market position (and its built) it really wont matter if it gets killed or not. Just when the smartphone market has started to heat up a little, already some of the big names supporting Windows Mobile, like Motorolla is doing pretty bad, and Plam, the new Windows Mobile player, is closing shop.

And now... they say the iPhone killer is back. Thats right, the Android is back. This time its rumoured that Dell and Google are partnering to build the first "Gphone" running on Android. Like I had said before, this is not good news for the already shaky Windows Mobile. Android is open source. Developers take note.

There are couple of fake pics of the Gphone circulating on the net, but still interesting concepts.



Bilal
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