GPhone strategy to trump iPhone?

There are product strategies, and then there are product strategies. Apple, for instance, has always gone the high-tech, high-price route. While still wrapped in secrecy, there is an indication that the long-rumored Google phone will take another tack. Google recently bought Jaiku, a Scandinavian holder of important SMS patents and the industry rumor mill now has Google focusing on a low-cost, low-tech strategy for maximum market penetration. How will the Google Phone and Google's 700 MHz plans mesh? We don't know, but it will pay to keep an eye on the search behemoth and its wireless plans.

For more on a possible Google phone strategy:
- read the informed prognostication at NewsFactor