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Google Phone: Why I Could Care Less...For Now

By Al Sacco
December 14, 2009 01:49 PM ET

CIO - So. It seems the oft-rumored and--until recently--never-pictured, "Google Phone" exists.

The bulk of the technology news industry is stopping the proverbial presses. Bloggers are clacking away crazily on their laptop keys, regurgitating the new info, cropping and zooming on images and otherwise going ga-ga over the Google Phone a.k.a. Nexus One--which happens to look an awful lot like the previously-peeped HTC "Passion"...

But me? Me, I can't help but roll my eyes and scoff a bit. Google Phone, Smoogle-Phone, I say. I've yet to see a single piece of hardware running Google's popular Android OS that could meet all my smartphone-related needs. And frankly, this new Google Phone, Nexus One, HTC Passion/Dragon whatever, is no different.

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