The Acer Guy

Not an Acer-related story but IT is IT and I love the way companies are scrambling over themselves to deliver cutting edge mobile solutions.

And you know it’s going to be a big scramble when Google takes part.

This morning I read an article over on Australia’s Herald Sun about Google’s latest brainchild. A phone.

I have long thought that mobile phones were the search engines of the future and Google’s potential foray into this market is only adding to my belief which started once the 3G mobile phone company, Three, launched its X-Series, offering broadband mobile access to Skype, Sling, Orb, Yahoo!, Microsoft’s Windows Live Messenger, eBay and Google at a flat monthly rate.

I’m wondering if there’s a new category of web-surfer emerging here. Come to think of it, I’m actually pretty sure of it.

I mean, I can’t work without my notebook. I can’t produce copy, analyze PPT charts and check PDFs on a 2-inch mobile phone screen so a mobile phone with high-speed internet access is not going to change that part of my life. But what would happen if you offered millions of people (including me) instant access to VOIP services or streaming video or multimedia files (I can think of a dozen distance-learning opportunities waiting to happen over this medium, one of which is my own :-)), not to mention the possibility of finally realizing the dream of free international calls?

Personally, I wish Google the best of luck as it’s about time something big happened at a hardware level and I can’t think of anyone more qualified than them to make it happen.

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