Educators and their students soon could have another communications and mobile computing option that isn’t tied to a specific cellular provider, giving schools more flexibility in deploying a smart-phone solution on campus.
Google Inc. is expected to unveil the Nexus One, the first smart phone designed by the company’s own engineers, during a press conference on Jan. 5 at its headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. The device marks Google’s latest attempt to shake up the mobile market, and Google’s vision for how a mobile phone should be made and sold likely will raise the stakes in the internet search leader’s bid to gain more control over how people surf the web while they’re on the go.
In its invitation to the press event, Google said the wireless market had only seen “the beginning of what’s possible” with the free Android operating system that it introduced for mobile phones in late 2007.…Read More