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Conspiracy Theory: Google Phone rumours were started by Apple; it’s all lies

Categories: Android, Apple, Rumors
By: , IntoMobile
Sunday, December 13th, 2009 at 8:14 AM

Eldar Murtazin, Editor in Chief of Mobile-Review, is calling bullshit on this whole Google Phone (aka Nexus One, aka HTC Passion) saga. Here are several of his tweets:

  • “Hmmm Google Phone is a kind of fake finaly. Just finish conversation with some guy from Google, story looks in other way then it was discuss”
  • “Google employees are testing some features of upcoming version of Android 2.1 on HTC Passion which was called Google Phone (=Android phone)”
  • “Some rival company used misunderstanding to lauch rumour about Gphone and new business model from Google (which arent true).”
  • Twitter user @merajc asked Eldar: “any clue about who this rival company is?” to which he replied: “For sure is Apple – they fight against future Moto products”

Whether or not you believe Eldar is up to you. I would say out of 10 rumours he publishes, 8 of them are true.

I still remain a skeptic. I do not believe Google will launch their own device. If they do it would be suicide since their partners would basically tell the “do no evil” company to piss off.

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • Jeff Schaffer

    CNBC had an hour long show on Google the company and they actually showed Sergey Brin at a trade show handing out Google phones for free to developers at this conference. That was not an apparition.

  • fort

    Apple, There’s been a train coming. When you see the light you’ve already been hit.

  • Stefan Constantinescu

    I’m not talking about the Google Developer phone, the one that was handed out at Google I/O, I’m talking about the Google Phone for consumers. The phone that Google is going to sell themselves, with Google branding, straight to consumers, via the internet.

  • jerry

    What’s so odd is how the one released picture is clearly identical in all respects to an unreleased HTC Passion, except there is no HTC logo, and still everyone insists, it’s not an unreleased HTC Passion, it’s a GOOGLEPHONE!!!!

    Yeah, because HTC wouldn’t take their logo off of phones when they are in the alpha test in the wild phase.

  • jerry

    BTW, regarding Google’s dogfooding of this phone, I returned a Palm Pre and cursed Jon Rubinstein for not releasing it only after he and all his top managers and engineers had used it as their only phone for a month.

  • Adroid

    Conspiracy by Apple? Don’t make me laugh… everybody is holding OFF buying an iPhone in eager anticipation of this Nexus One phone. If they started this rumor, they sure shot themselves in the foot didn’t they? What a daft article.

  • ipodtouch

    im really laughing of loud to see alien reading newspaper, now.. im forget to post a comment about google phone… LoL

    Cheers