Google’s Peter Norvig says that there’s no GPhone (proprietary hardware device) in the works. The on-again, off-again rumors are perplexing, especially given that a number of people claim to have seen an actual device:
Dan Roth, president of VoiceSignal, a division of Nuance Communications Inc. which makes speech recognition technology for cellphones, is under NDA. Mike Phillips, founder of Vlingo Inc., a speech recognition start-up, has seen the phone – but neither company would say whether they’re working with Google. Paul Ferri, a founder of the Waltham venture capital firm Matrix Partners, has seen it, as has Murali Aravamudan, founder of a start-up called Veveo that is building a video search engine especially for phones. “We’d love to support a Google phone, if and when it becomes available,” Aravamudan says, adding that there isn’t yet a deal in the works.
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