(2009-11-25) Kumar Predicts New Google Phone Plan

Ashko Kumar of NortheastSecurities predicts a new Google Mobile plan that will include a new, Google-branded handset and the first comprehensive Google phone service with unlimited free calls... The Googlephone promises to be one of the most advanced smartphones, with a large touchscreen display and a processor almost twice as fast as the one powering Apple's IPhone 3GS. It will probably be the first phone to run a new version of Google's Android software, codenamed Flan, offering high-speed 3-D gaming said to be as good as that of many handheld consoles... The real breakthrough, however, will come with the marriage of the Googlephone to Google Voice, the Californian company's high-tech phone service... Google sounded its intentions two weeks ago when it purchased a small company called Gizmo5 (Gizmo), which had developed technology to connect Google Voice with voice-over-internet (VoIP) networks such as Skype. Now Google has the means to offer a complete, end-to-end phone service, with which consumers can make and receive calls between the Googlephone and other phones or computers anywhere in the world, and often for nothing.