Motorola Adds Google Button
The AP is reporting that a new deal will have Motorola add a Google button to certain web-enabled phones.
Motorola Inc. will soon begin selling Web-enabled cell phones that feature easy access to Google’s search engine by clicking on a button on the phone’s keypad, the world’s second-largest maker of cell phones said.
The company said in a statement late Thursday it will integrate a Google icon onto certain Internet-optimized handsets that will be distributed starting in the first quarter this year.
Financial terms were not disclosed and Motorola spokeswoman Una Kent said she could not give any specifics on what model phones or which operating systems the button will be built into.
You’d think at this point Google would be ubiquitous enough that there would be a Google button on every phone, without them making a deal, but phone manufacturer’s have been plenty stupid when it comes to the mobile web. I mean, if even Internet Explorer 7 has Google built into the search bar, why wouldn’t a phone from a non-Google competitor? Well, if this is what you have to do to get a presence on the mobile web, more power to Google.
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The Google button is just too cool!
Comment by JohnJ | January 21, 2006