And Apple should 'watch out'? For 50k phones? They sell that many iPhones in a day!

The Gphone is not going to be competitive with the IPhone because they appeal to different markets while using different marketing strategies. The IPhone is aimed at the high-end smart phone market, acquiring customers who do not mind shelling out top-dollar for their phone. But the GPhone, with its advertising based model, appeals to people who would like to spend less on their phone and wireless bill, opting to allow advertising to help offset some of those costs. The phones are not even competing with the same customers, so the impact of the first GPhone generation on the sales of the IPhone will be minimal.

Whoever comes up with the cheapest phone with the most user friendly features and services at the lowest price will win. Just like TV's and calculators, over time people expect more for less. The iphone has already been reduced by $200. for this very reason. People want features for less.

A new or better operating system will NOT be on these GPhones!

Apple OS X Tiger, soon to be Leopard, is the most advanced and user friendly OS. Until an OS is comparable, it will be difficult for competitors to catch Apple.

The GPhone will probably have a Google software sample for software developers to use for testing and advancing their own applications on a mobile device. This is similar to Intel sending test chip samples to computer manufacturers to prototype and develop units before incorporating the chip into mass produced computers.

"Apple OS X Tiger, soon to be Leopard" is intentionally crippled on the iPhone. It won't be a superior operating system utill it is opened up to developers.

Read this...

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone

Just because of the name Gphone vs iPhone, it really not automatically make it comparable to the iPhone. You can have Gphone or mPhone, o Nphone or Sphone, whatever, but for now there is only one iPhone! get it!

Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, is on the Board of Directors of Apple and is a close friend of Steve Jobs. Google is not going after the same market segment as the iPhone. I would assume that Apple will leverage whatever Google does for its betterment in the marketplace.

ChrissyOne: read the article again.

Those 50,000 phones are going to developers so that when the phone is actually released, it will be supported by lots of software.

> A new or better operating system will NOT be on these GPhones!

How do you know? Have you seen the GPhone OS?

> Apple OS X Tiger, soon to be Leopard, is the most advanced and user friendly OS.

Most advanced? Will the iphone support more than the handful of applications (without turning into a brick), GPS navigation, bluetooth audio, text to speech, spreadsheet, pdf? I hope so. My 3 year old "windows mobile" phone does all that already.

I am not a windows fan (as I use a Mac everyday) and this is not a Mac vs Win vs Google OS discussion. I just can't stand people making claims without any facts. This is why "mac fanboys" don't get any respect.

But Apple Inc. may well pay attention to Gphone.
Although Apple Inc.'s iphone have the best image in the world, Apple Inc. have suffer from product of competitor. Also consumer think that what i buy because outlook of people is various