Apple wants to secure a deal with a single pan-European network for the launch of its iPhone by the end of the year, with industry insiders suggesting Vodafone has emerged as an early front runner.
Google, meanwhile, has held talks with companies including Telefónica, owner of O2, about producing a "GPhone'"which would make it easy for users to search for information using their mobile handset.
The fact that Apple will launch it's announced iPhone in Europe by the end of this year has already been confirmed. Vodafone getting the exclusive selling rights would be big news.
The news about a Google Phone being sold by O2 goes against the latest statement from Richard Kimber, one of Google Asia's managing directors in which he told an Australian newspaper that Google is NOT planning a Mobile Phone: "At this point in time, we are very focused on the software, not the phone", he said.
Only time will tell. . .
