{"id":80468,"date":"2009-12-14T05:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T10:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/Google-Hands-Out-Its-Secret-Mobile-Phone-to-Employees-129645.shtml"},"modified":"2009-12-14T05:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T10:24:00","slug":"google-hands-out-its-secret-mobile-phone-to-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/80468","title":{"rendered":"Google Hands Out Its 'Secret' Mobile Phone to Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Google phone which the company denied so vehemently is very much a reality and it’s coming to market early next year. Google has confirmed its existence though it claims it is only a testing device handed out to employees as a sort of mobile lab to run experimental apps and services. Everyone else though is having a field day with info on the device and we know that it will be called Nexus One and will be sold as an unlocked GSM phone, which in the US means it will work on T-Mobile and AT&T. In fact, the unlocked phone will apparently be carried by T-Mobile as well.<\/p>\n

“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,” Mario Queiroz, vice president, Product Management, writes on Google’s mobile blog. <\/p>\n

“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 te… (read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Google phone which the company denied so vehemently is very much a reality and it’s coming to market early next year. Google has confirmed its existence though it claims it is only a testing device handed out to employees as a sort of mobile lab to run experimental apps and services. Everyone else though […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}