Ashok Kumar strikes again! Google is making a phone, twice as fast as iPhone 3GS, runs Android Flan
By Stefan Constantinescu on Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 at 10:24 AM PST In Android, Rumors
Ashok Kumar, an analyst with Northeast Securities, is now the butt of all my “people who work in this industry who have no clue what they’re talking about” jokes. This time last month he told The Street that Google will be releasing their own Android device, only to be burned a few days later by the head of Android Porject, Andy Rubin, who said “we’re not making hardware, we’re enabling others to build hardware”. Kumar now has new information, and I’m being a total idiot for linking to it, but here it goes:
- Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will be releasing a Google branded handset that has unlimited free calls powered by Google Voice and the recent Gizmo5 acquisition
- This handset will have a “large touchscreen display” and will have a processor “nearly twice as fast as the iPhone 3GS”
- It will “probably” run a new version of Android called Flan
- The device will “probably” be built by HTC and have a Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) processor inside
At this point in time you may proceed to slap your forehead.
If Google ever released their own mobile device, which they’re not going to, they would be alienating handset makers.
If Google ever released their own mobile device with unlimited free calls, which they’re not going to, they would be alienating handset makers and operators.
Will there be a version of Android called Flan? Absolutely, Andy Rubin already talked about, and he confirmed it will support advanced 3D graphics.
Will there be an Android device, built by HTC, with a processor from Qualcomm that is nearly twice as fast as the iPhone 3GS? Yes. Just take the HTC HD2, which has a 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor inside, compared to the 600 MHz processor inside the iPhone 3GS, slap the latest version of Android on it, and there is your mythical Google Phone.
What next Ashok Kumar? Are you going to tell people that the next version of Android, the one after Flan, will be called Gelato and it is going to power the new Google Phone? It’s going to be 4 times faster than the iPhone 3GS, has the ability to tell you where the nearest café serving a hot steaming cup of decaffeinated “shut the fuck up” is, and best of all adds the ability to purchase said cup of coffee with Google Checkout!
Thanks for taking Gonzo journalism to a whole new level Stefan
I love the last paragraph! Your articles always make me chuckle
http://phandroid.com/2009/11/19/google-phone-by-htc-early-2010/
God protect you and your credibility if Google indeed comes out with a phone. I agree with your analysis and the fact that Google will be alienating everyone if it launches its own version of a smartphone. However, Google built the browser, they built an OS and I will not be greatly surprised if they build a phone. They have $22B in cash as of now..
A) Fuck god.
B) If I’m wrong then I’ll admit I’m wrong. It happens all the time.
So you are proven wrong today. Admit it. And give credit to Ashok Kumar – I know this would be tough for you since this post got too personal, but I guess it happens all the time with you!
looking at what google has done so far, it is too early to say that they absolutely won’t come up with a google phone.
And they may buy some phone maker, did this ever cross your mind?
um, didn’t google come out with its own phone, the nexus one?