GoogleMobile

From Davidbond.net

Suggestion for product and "gi's-a-job": GoogleMobile

It would be great if Google sold a mobile phone.

It would only need a simple interface (like a cross betwwen your home page and Google desktop) for the main screen, a logo and a text box. You then type in what you want to do 'B','e','c' on the keypad and it would do what google desktop does, suggesting the J2ME applications you may wish to run, the names of contacts with "Bec" in them (in this case, Becky, my wife) I then hit 'space' and 'S' and the engine has already worked out that I want to SMS Becky. I hit return and I'm in the SMS application, with becky's mobile number already completed and the cursor flashing in the text box.

At any time, I can hit the Google button to go back to the "Search" screen.

Other functions would be mapped to "ctrl" buttons, so the "People" button would return a list of people in my phonebook. Google-hosted services would also be available: the "Lucky" button would do the equivalent of "I'm feeling lucky". The "Map" button would do a GPS fix and find local services etc. Of course, the "return" button would do a standard Google search.

The phone would likely run on a Java VM using the candybar or flip-phone form factor, QVGA colour screen, though this is a matter of implementation.

The network provider would be MVNO, dependant on the country in which the service was bought.

I'll put together some slideware over the next few days, expanding on this idea but, in the meantime, could I have a contact to talk to and beg for a job?! ;o)

For more info on me, my Wiki is at http://davidbond.net/

David