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Google’s Visionary Phone Plan
Wednesday, November 7, 2007 at 11:00 am

For months, cellphone aficionados — that is, a whole lot of this country — have waited for news of the “Google phone”: the “G-phone.” When it came, what Google rolled out was not, in fact, a gadget at all.
It was a vision of cellphones as the new PC; of the web rich and deep and [...]

 
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