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Tuesday, October 30, 2007 — 6:07 p.m. — at my desk

Everyone claims to know what’s up at Google.

There’s going to be a phone, there’s not going to be a phone. It’s coming out next year, it’s coming out next week. It’s white and shiny, it’s cheap and drab.

Truth is, you can read all you want but no one knows what Google is going to do.

Except for Google of course.

The latest from the Wall Street Journal is that Google is going to release its own mobile operating system for phones in 2008. This I believe. I don’t think it makes sense for Google to get into the handset business or the wireless business in general. But, if you can get every mobile phone user in the world to embrace Google’s simplicity and style, folks will be saying Windows Mobile what? Or Symbian wha?

But I don’t think they’ll ever say Apple what? I think the iPhone is safe, no matter what kind of onslaught Google brings on. And, with the connection Apple and Google have in the boardroom, I think there’s a great chance for some sort of mobile partnership that would hit a home run for investors and users alike.

But the WSJ story also says that Verizon and Google are in serious talks to bring the Googleized phones to Verizon’s network. And Bloomberg is reporting that the talks extend to Sprint.

I think Sprint will be bought out by some other company long before anything fruitful emerges from the talks. That leaves Verizon, and while that combination makes sense, I don’t see it happening.

Verizon is known for being so stoddgy that they never allow control of anything to leave their tight little hands. I can’t imagine Google — an imaginative and think out of the box company — working well with Verizon — which reminds me of a ma bell company from 1953.

Had Verizon opened its collective mind, the iPhone could have been on its network. And even though Verizon says that its seen no impact sales-wise from the iPhone (editors note: bull) I think its learned its lesson and will listen a little more carefully to what Google has to say.

So we’ll see. Waiting is never easy, but I think it’s going to be a win-win for everyone. Even if we end up with verizigoogle phones. Or gPhones. Or whatever. Because competition is good for everyone. It will keep Apple on its toes. It can’t afford not to be.

What do you think?

Thanks for calling.

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Tuesday, October 30, 2007 — 3:49 p.m. — at my desk.

I promise not to open my stand-up act with this, but the iPhone’s battery meter is revolting.

Anyone? Revolting? Batteries have volts?

And moving on … Not only is the meter unreliable, the usage page under settings that shows you the time between full charges is unreliable. I’ve gone 2 days now without charging. This morning, the meter said 1 day, 0 hours. So I rebooted the phone. And now it says 2 hours, 54 minutes.

Thanks, Apple. Nicely done.

Can we get an update that addresses this? I’m really tired of writing about it. I know you are all going to get tired of reading about it, but it seems as though I notice some little bug every day and that doesn’t sit well with me.

Thanks for calling.

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Saturday, October 27, 2007 — 11:43 p.m. — in my living room

Tonight, iWife and I were watching TV when we saw the story on the news about the new iPhone purchasing rules.

That’s when she said to me … how come there aren’t any games?

To hear Steve Jobs tell it, the Touch and iPhone are different beasts under the hood and can’t run the games that the “regular” old iPods can.

Strange game. The only way to win is not to play.

Baloney, Joshua.

I mean, obviously Ms. Pac-Man wouldn’t be great on a touch screen, but even Professor Falken would agree that a nice game of chess would certainly be doable. As would Tic-Tac-Toe or even Tetris. You know that breakout game where you have a little ball and try to knock off all the bricks? That would be a great game for nimble fingers.

Yet there’s nothing. Was there no way to put a game on this thing? Battery power is already an issue, I know, but my wife is right … it would be at least nice to have a game.

I might actually blog less. Or not.

I know that we’ll see all this change in February when the software development kit is released, but it’s a long way off and there are quite a few dark winter hours between now and then.

Anyhow, what do you think? Any games that you really want to play on your iPhone? Sure you can do it now with a Safari app, but I was talking something with an icon at least.

Thanks for calling.

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