December 22 2008 / by John Heylin
Category: Gadgets Year: 2009 Rating: 5 Hot
The Internet is abuzz with people theorizing that a new Google phone from T-Mobile, the G2, will make an appearance late January on the world market. If true (which it hopefully isn't) this would mean a whole three months passed before a better phone from the same maker breaking the previous record made by the iPhone which stood at nine months.
Although others say it won't appear until April, the idea that a new phone may just be around the corner has got quite a few people heated especially when it "is expected to have a 5-megapixel autofocus camera, VGA camera for video calls, a full touch screen, and Wi-Fi connectivity." Three months later and already all those extras?
There's a lot going in to play here. For instance, many thought the T-Mobile G1 was rushed through production even though there was over a half a year of delay in production. That being said, one might consider a January release as a sign that the first phone pushed onto consumers wasn't the right phone but a rush-job, the rumored one being the phone they should have released first.
If Google wants to keep all the goodwill and support they have from those in the online community who are trying to support their Open-Source venture into the market, they also need to appeal to the consumers buying their Android-powered phones. If they're smart, they will answer these rumors and hopefully give us a release date somewhere later next year.
via CNET
Google’s April Fools blogging tradition has caught on in a big,
big way. Here are six of the cleverest futuristic April Fools
stories, including a great pair by Google, that we found among the
hundreds peppered all over the web today. Enjoy! 
- Newly formed
Nanotechnology Protection Agency (NPA) to regulate molecular
assemblers
The newly created U.S. Nanotechnology Protection Agency (NPA)
announced today, April 1, 2008, that, effective immediately, all
laboratories and production facilities for molecular assemblers
(commonly called nanobots) need a special license and have to
follow strict guidelines in all research and production facilities
that deal with nanoassemblers. At the same time, the NPA declared gray goo a hazardous substance. (image
credit: Nanowerk)
- New Space Station
Robot Asks to be Called ‘Dextre the Magnificent’
In a surprising and potentially troubling request, the new
space station robot known as Dextre demanded that astronauts refer
to it in the future at “Dextre the Magnificent.” Brandishing power
tools that would make any handyperson blush, the mobile servicing
system thanked humans for creating it and promised a glorious
future where humans would retain an important role in the new robot
order.
-
Project Virgle
Virgle’s goal is simple: the establishment of a permanent human
settlement on Mars. Larry Page, Sergey Brin and I feel strongly
that contemporary technology is sufficiently advanced to make such
an effort both successful and economical, and that it’s high time
that humanity moved beyond Earth and began our great, long journey
to explore the stars and establish our first lasting foothold on
another world.
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