But only sort of. In a post on the Google Mobile blog, Google’s Vice President of Product Management addressed recent rumours suggesting Google is making a Google-branded Android phone. He said… well, he said nothing. He said Google IS experimenting with new things, but you’d sort of expect that from Google, wouldn’t you?
Here’s exactly what Mario had to say about current Google Android hardware/software developments, including a puzzling American headline about “dogfooding”
An Android dogfood diet for the holidays
At Google, we are constantly experimenting with new products and technologies, and often ask employees to test these products for quick feedback and suggestions for improvements in a process we call dogfooding (from “eating your own dogfood”). Well this holiday season, we are taking dogfooding to a new level.
We recently came up with the concept of a mobile lab, which is a device that combines innovative hardware from a partner with software that runs on Android to experiment with new mobile features and capabilities, and we shared this device with Google employees across the globe. This means they get to test out a new technology and help improve it.
Unfortunately, because dogfooding is a process exclusively for Google employees, we cannot share specific product details. We hope to share more after our dogfood diet.
Posted by Mario Queiroz, Vice President, Product Management
So… a few lucky Google employees will spend Christmas with an experimental Google phone loaded with custom Android tools. Hardly BIG NEWS – surely that sort of thing happens day in, day out at Google HQ? We’d be more surprised if news emerged that Google was RESTING ON ITS LAURELS and wasn’t sending people home with new builds of Android to play with.
The only question is what “new” features and capabilities are being trialed. Chances are we’ll find out whenever Android 2.5 or 3.0 turns up. We must, as ever, sit patiently before our RSS readers in anticipation.
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A very shiny thing from Sony Ericsson, with a 3.7″ screen and Android 2.3.3 inside. But is it exciting enough to win fans in today’s spec-obsessed market? Can man live on one core alone?
INQ’s Android phone is an interesting “boutique” piece of hardware, packed with unique interface customisations that go far beyond the headline Facebook integration. We like it a lot.
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