Lack of posting again!

I know! I’m sorry but I’m having a big year and because of this, my blog is getting neglected severely! I have so much work and therefore little time for blogging. I’m going to try my hardest to keep blogging like a little trooper (blogger?) in the near feature.

Stay tuned…

Six months! Stats Mania!

Wow! Who would have guessed I’d still be blogging six months after I started!? I wouldn’t have! Anyway here are some stats for people who can’t get enough (like me!). I’ve even included the character count for us statistic lovers!

• Days alive: 6 months (Don’t have time to work out how many days this is!)
• Post count: 23 not including this post (I’m aiming for 50 by the 1 year marker)
• Word Count: 8,972
• Character count: 48,343
• Comments: 77
• Tags: 37 (Is this high or low?)
• Posts that I’ve started and not finished: 6 (They will probably never get finished)
• Total views: 1,745 (I need more! Lots more!)
• Best day ever: 119 (On Sunday, August 5, 2007)
• Views today so far: 11
• Spam: 2,646 and growing by the day! Imagine that only 3 months ago I had only 57! Ha! The good ole’ days!

Enjoy,
Alan.

Google Phone to run OpenMoko

Now that the Google Phone has been confirm, it is rumored that Google will be using the OpenMoko platform on Google designed hardware.

According to Phoronix.com, “A friendly penguin has told us at Phoronix that Google is looking to team up with OpenMoko for their “gPhone”. Google will not be using the FIC Neo1973 GTA01, but they will be bringing the open-source OpenMoko platform to their own hardware, which looks to be manufactured through HTC, and making a few changes along the way.”

I did predict that the Google phone would be Linux-based (although I suggested Ubuntu ) and a commenter on one of my posts informed me about the OpenMoko project(the Neo1973 running OpenMoko, pictured right).

Could this phone be even more hyped than the iPhone?

Google Phone confirmed!

You may have read my last post about the things the so-called gPhone needs to have to beat the iPhone. well it looks to be confirmed that a gPhone prototype has been made and is doing the rounds at various carriers around North America and Europe.

This rumor seems to be confirmed by the Wall Street Journal, here.

Analysis by two news sites:

‘Google is believed to have spent “hundreds of millions of dollars” on its mobile phone project and has courted Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile, and others as possible partners for carrying a Google-designed phone. According to anonymous sources, Google has multiple phone prototypes and envisions a day in which mobile phones will be ad-supported thanks to services such as those Google provides.’ -Ars Technica

‘Google Inc. has developed a prototype cell phone that could reach markets within a year, and plans to offer consumers free subscriptions by bundling advertisements with its search engine, e-mail and Web browser software applications, according to a story published Thursday in The Wall Street Journal.’ – Computer World.

So it appears the gPhone is really and will more than likely be in our hands a year from now. Stay tuned…