Podcast: Will the Google Phone disrupt the wireless industry?

by Jason Hiner in Social enterprise

on December 15, 2009, 11:00 PM PST

Podcast: Will the Google Phone disrupt the wireless industry?

Google is preparing to launch and sell a new smartphone, untethered from the cellular carriers. Learn the two factors that will determine its success.

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The Google Phone: Risks, rewards and wild cards (ZDNet)
Why So Many Are So Wrong on the ‘Google Phone’ (PC Magazine)
Google phone with T-Mobile contract in Jan: source (Reuters)
Google to launch unlocked Nexus One Android smartphone in 2010; disrupt mobile industry (ZDNet)
Top 10 Google Phone rumors (ZDNet)

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Podcast: Will the Google Phone disrupt the wireless industry?

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