INDIA—India's Bharti Airtel Ltd is emerging as the most likely candidate to partner with Google in the Internet search giant's new mobile initiative, the Google Phone (GPhone). Bharti Airtel Ltd. already has a strategic partnership with Google in the mobile search area.
Motorola and Samsung are likely to bag orders in the area of producing mobile handsets for the GPhone. So far, Finnish mobile handset giant Nokia doesn't seem to figure in Google's mobile initiative.
The Google Phone or GPhone will use Google's mobile Operating System about which little is known so far. Technology pundits and industry insiders believe it is built on open source Linux technology, and will provide for multiple Java applications as well as web applications while allowing sophisticated mobile software to be downloaded to the consumer's mobile handset. The GPhone initiative is expected to provide highend mobile software services equaling the BlackBerry.
Google is expected to soon announce its operating system for mobile handsets that will run the GPhone software.
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