How to Play DVD on Wii?

So you want to play DVDs on your Wii?
Want to watch your favorite DVD movie or television show on your Wii? It seems really difficult for most people. Thanks for hombrewer, everything becomes easy. Here we will show you two methods to play DVDS on Wii.

Method 1: Using the Homebrew Channel to Play DVD on Wii
Method 2: Using the DVD to Wii Converter to Play DVD on Wii


Method 1: Using the Homebrew Channel to Play DVD on Wii

Carrying on the rich hacker tradition of picking up the slack for companies that are unwilling or unable to provide the functionality users need, a team of Wii coders have given the console what Nintendo could not: DVD playback. By installing a small, hidden channel on a system, this package blesses the console with a libdi file (DVD access library), and allows you to watch your favorite videos with the MPlayer application, an open source media player.


The actual process is so simple – It's a matter of downloading a small file, a homebrew video player, copying them to an SD card, and using the Homebrew Channel to apply a two-second patch. Keep reading after the break for our full impressions. Check Step-by-step gallery at below:
http://www.nintendowiifanboy.com/photos/guide-to-watching-dvds-on-wii/

Once it's up-and-running, you can pop into the Mplayer app from the Homebrew Channel, put any video DVD in the drive, and voila – you're watching a DVD on a game console. Crazy, huh?

Attention:
There is a risk that brick your Wii if you do something wrong.

Method 2: Using the DVD to Wii Converter to Play Converted DVD on Wii

Right, the Method 1 seems to be perfect. However, it’s still difficult for many people and exist risks to damage your Wii. So are there any easier and safer methods to do that? Thanks for the effort of Wii’s third part app developer, watching DVD on Nintendo Wii become much simpler and safer. All you need is a DVD to Wii Converter and a SD card.

Here below, I will take a third part app developer for Wii named Wondershare DVD to Wii Converter as example, and show you step-by-step guides – how to watch DVD on your Wii.

Step 1: Download Wondershare DVD to Wii Converter – Which can rip any DVD (including protected DVD) to Wii supported format such as AVI.

Step 2: Convert DVD to Wii supported format
The conversion is easy to handle, just with a few clicks. It may take you half an hour for a full DVD with lossless output quality.


Step 3: Copy the converted DVD to your SD Card

Step 4: Play the converted DVD on your Wii with the SD Card
Plug in the SD card to your Wii, then put your foot up on the desk and enjoy your converted DVD on Wii.

Compared with the two methods, the first one can play DVD on Wii directly, but it need over 10 steps to finish the task and need some assistant hardware, further more it exist risk to brick the Wii. The second one also has its disadvantage - Not play DVD on Wii directly, but play converted DVD on Wii; anyway, it seems much easier and safer.

Blackfriday&Cybermonday Software special offer lists:

Today is Thanks giving; Blackfriday&Cybermonday is very close to us now. And how is this year’s holiday? Will it become quiet due to the economy’s drop?

According to the research, from ‘ST. LOUIS, -- Maritz(R) Poll’, most of the shoppers are going to purchase on this thanks giving holidays, though the global economy decreased. And we’re even expecting a slightly increase in this season.

On the other hand, we can see most of the merchants and software publishers are ready to rock!
Here we collected some of the information on Blackfriday&CyberMonday offer from software to the online shops.

Note: This list is only for the shoppers’ convenience, you are very welcome to update and renew the information. Please Do not post any advertisement or other commercial information.
Category:
SOFTWARE:
‘Thanksgiving Deals’ at wondershare:
http://www.dvd-ripper-copy.com/special/hot-deal.html
‘Free video to mobile converter’ at Aimersoft:
http://www.aimersoft.com/special-offers.html
’Drm removal B1G1F plan’ at Daniusoft:
http://www.wmatomp3-converter.com/guide/thanksgiving_day.html
‘Anti virus discount’ at Vipreanti:
http://www.vipreantivirus.com/blackfriday/
‘B1G1F for windows’ at Wondershare:
http://www.dvd-ripper-copy.com/special/special-offer.html#116
‘Discount pack in mac’ at iSkysoft:
http://www.moviesmac.com/thanksgiving.html
‘40% off for media devices products’ at Almedia.com:
http://www.all-media-converter.com/thanksgiving-offer.html
‘20% off coupon’ from xilisoft:
http://www.xilisoft.com/
‘30% off for the flash&netmedia products’ from Wondershare:
http://www.flashontv.com/thanksgiving-promotion.html
‘20% off coupon’ from imtoo:
http://www.imtoo.com/index.html
‘Thanks giving card’ from sothink:
http://www.sothink.com/special/thanksgiving-special.htm
‘Thanks giving discount’ from VTF:
http://www.video-to-flash.com/thanksgiving2008.html

Shopping websites:
http://www.kbtoys.com/Thanksgiving-Specials/N/4294802081
http://www.newegg.com/?nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-homepage-_-na-_-na&AID=10440555&PID=1234320
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Friday-After-Thanksgiving-Sale/b?_encoding=UTF8&node=384082011
http://www.sears.com/?sid=I0084400010000100694&aff=Y
http://www.samsclub.com/shopping/index.jsp?pid=_DoubleClick_Affiliates&dblclick=true
http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2008/11/24/black-friday-deals-already-online/
http://arstechnica.com/index.ars

There are more than 70 percents of the online shops will offer their special discounts in this holiday season. So be prepared, it’s time to fill the bag for the winter!

How to convert MTS/M2TS Video to Popular Video and Upload to Youtube ？

Summary: This article includes three chapters:
Chapter 1: A basic knowledge about MTS/M2TS
Chapter 2: Why Convert MTS/ M2TS to Popular Video formats?
Chapter 3: How to Convert MTS/M2TS to Popular Video and Upload to Youtube?

How much do you know about MTS and M2TS?

According to Wikipedia, both MTS and M2TS are Sony high definition video file types, which are raw AVCHD videos recorded by AVCHD camcorders such as Sony HDR-SR1 camcorders. And m2ts files usually record onto 8cm mini DVDS or blue-ray DVDS, SD memory cards and Memory Stick, or record onto hard drive camcorder.

Why Convert MTS/ M2TS to Popular Video Formats?

If someone used to have m2ts or other AVC HD videos, he would be frustrated that there are so little devices which support m2ts video. Normally, you can only play your m2ts video directly from a camcorder on a HDTV with a HDMI, or play on a Blu-ray Disc player.

However, have you imagined playing your mts/m2ts videos on your PC, laptop, iPod, iPhone or any other portable mp4 players? Or even uploading your mts or m2ts video to Youtube, Google videos to share with all of your friends?

In order to find out a workable method to do that, I have searched relate questions on search engine. Finally, I got an answer which certainly can do that – Convert MTS/M2TS files to popular video formats such as avi, mp4, mpg, wmv, flv...etc. So that you can put the converted mts/m2ts video to your iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP etc. and even upload your m2ts to Youtube. And the key step to do that is to use MTS/M2TS video converter. And I have found out some video converters which well support converting m2ts video to popular video formats, such as Wonderhsare video converter platinum, Daniusoft Video converter and Aimersoft video converter etc.

How to Convert MTS/M2TS to Popular Video and Upload to Youtube?

Here below I will take Wondershare Video Converter Platinum as an example, and show you the step-by-step guide to converter mts/m2ts video to popular video formats such as convert m2ts to avi, convert m2ts mp4, convert m2ts to wmv, and convert mts to avi, wmv, flv …etc.

Step 1 Get MTS/M2TS files from HD Video camera/camcorder to PC.

Connect the HD video camera/ camcorders to your PC with a USB cable. It is desirable that you copy the videos to your PC's hard-drive before converting or editing it.

Step 2: Download M2TS Video Converter:

Here we use Wondershare Video Converter to show the mts/m2ts conversion process. In addition, this Video Converter not only can convert m2ts video, but also can convert other hd videos such as tp, ts, trp and standard videos such as avi, mp4, wmv, flv.

You can download free trial Version here: for Windows users, for Mac users, Then install and run this program.

Step 3: Load the MTS/M2TS files



Click the "Add " button to browse your computer hard disc and add the .MTS or .M2TS files you want to convert to the program. Batch conversion is supported by this M2TS video converter, so you can load several M2TS files at one time.

Step 4: Customize output Settings

After you added MTS/M2TS files, you can select an output format for each video file and specify a directory on your computer to save the output files. Here we select .flv as output format.


Step 5: Edit your M2TS files (option)

This Video Converter can help you set video brightness, contrast, saturation, crop video, trim video and even merge multiple files into one single file before the conversion.

Step 6: Start the conversion

Click the “Start “button to start conversion and then you can just have a coffee or take a nap, and the conversion may have been finished when you come back: )

Step 7: Upload the Converted M2TS Video to Youtube

Login to Youtube, upload the converted video (flv format video) to Youtube.

All the conversion takes me 25 minutes with 700 M2TS videos, and the conversion speed often depend on the original video site and your PC configuration. The conversion speed and output quality seem ok, anyhow, the converted video (standard video) is not as clear as the original m2ts video (HD video), but it will meet most people requirement. Generally speaking, it is worth to use this video converter to convert your m2ts video.

BlackBerry Storm Converter

Blackberry storm 9530 was released yesterday, so i check the specifications about that. For i need to know whether the Blackberry support Youtube video, if so i intend to get one.

So despond about that, the Blackberry storm still can't support youtube video, it only support MPEG4 H.263, MPEG4 Part 2 Simple Profile, H.264, WMV (Video format support) MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, WMA ProPlus (Audio format support) [see from: blackberry.com]

Then, i try to find some third party software for blackberry which can convert youtube video to Blackberry storm. It's a hard work, and finally i found out one which announced as Blackberry storm converter, it describe as it convert various video formats to BlackBerry video formats including AVI, 3GP, H.264, H.263, MP4 and WMV, and completely support Blackberry Storm 9530, BlackBerry 8800, 8830, 8820, BlackBerry 8100 and more other Blackberry serials.

And here is a screen of that program:


But i didn't have Blackberry storm now, so i can't check the conversion quality. if someone got Blackberry Storm, and use that program, please let me know the effect and conversion speed of that program.

Below is where i find that:
http://www.dvd-ripper-copy.com/video-to-blackberry.html

How to Burn all Popular format Video to DVD with slideshow?

Many people download massive youtube video or other format videos on their pc, and they want to see it at their home dvd players. But most of them frustrate with how to do that. Now here is step by step guides show you how to burn all popular format video to DVD with slideshow.

All the thing you need is Wondershare Video to DVD Burner, it takes five simple steps to organize video files to slideshows and burn them to DVD.

Step 1: Organize your slideshow
Click the 'Load file' button to load the video files you want to burn. Then drag & drop the loaded files from the Collections pane to the slideshow storyboard to start organize your slideshow. You can sort the order of the video files in a slideshow by drag them in the storyboard. Click the Add Slideshow button (the first button from the left above the storyboard).


Step 2: Apply Effects
Click the Effect tab and you will see all the available transitions in the Effect pane, to apply a transition, you can just drag and drop it to into the slideshow storyboard.


Step 3: Customize DVD menu (Optional)
Click the Menu tab to customize your DVD menu. There are different styles of built-in templates, frames and buttons for your choice. To apply a template, frame or button, you can just double click it. You can even add text, background music and background image to customize the menu.
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Step 4 Preview your video slideshow(s)
Click the Preview tab to preview your slideshow project by click the preview control buttons. This step is to help you decide if everything is what you have expected. If not, you can go back to any of the previous steps to make changes to your project.


Step 5 Start Burning
After you finish the four steps above, click the Burn tab to prepare for burning your project. If you want o burn your project directly to the DVD disc you have inserted in your DVD-ROM, you can just select “DVD” in the “Burn to” field, specify a temp folder (used to save the generated temporary files), select your DVD drive and burning program (either built-in or your own burning application), select, select your TV Standard and output aspect ration, and click Start to burn your project.
If you just want to create DVD files or an ISO file for the current project, you can just select the “DVD Folder” or “ISO file” option, specify a folder to save them, and click Start to generate DVD files or ISO onto your computer.


Video* - Audio Video Interleaved - A multimedia file format for storing sound and moving pictures in RIFF format developed by Microsoft. An Video file can use different codecs and formats so there is no set format for an Video file unlike for example standard VCD video which sets a standard for resolution, bitrates, and codecs used.
DVD* - DVD stands for Digital Video Disc. A standard VCD records video data in MPEG-1 format. On the other hand, a standard DVD records video data in MPEG-2 format. A DVD player or a computer equipped with a DVD drive is required to play DVDs. Almost all DVD players also play VCDs.

How to convert YouTube videos to iPod, iPhone, PSP, Zune...

Most of us go to Youtube website to watch Youtube videos, and want to playback them on mobile devices such as iPod, iPhone, PSP, Zune and so on. In this case, you can do a search on google with the keywords of “FLV to video” and see what you can find. There are various FLV conversion tools available. If you also want to edit your Youtube movies before converting them, you can give Wondershare Video Converter Platinum a try. See the screenshot below:


You can follow the steps below to use this software:

Step1. Add Files
Click the Add button to add the saved FLV files from your computer hard disc.

Step2. Edit Movie
Crop Movie: You can crop a Youtube movie if it has black sides. Just drag the crop frame (in broken line) and the video area within the crop frame will be what you get finally. See the screenshot below:


Set Movie Effect: If you want to change the original brightness, contrast and saturation. You can also select a special video effect, say Emboss, to apply to a movie. See the screenshot below:


Step3. Convert
Select an output format according to your mobile device from the “format” drop-down list, and click “Start” to start the conversion. All the converted files can be found at the output directory (C:\Program Files\Wondershare\Video Converter Platinum\Output by default).

How to Put Limewire music, Youtube video, DVD/video files, games on iPod

Lots of people have iPods, but many of us still experience difficulties putting music, videos and other resources on iPod. I have been using my iPod for quite a long time, and the five tips below are what I have learned to put everything I can on my iPod:
1. Limewire music to iPod
2. Put DVDs, videos to iPod
3. Youtube video to iPod
4. Put games on iPod
5. Sync music and video to iPod

1. Put music and videos from Limewire to iPod
Limewire is a download tool I assume lot of us use. I often use it to download free music and videos and put them on my iPod. If you don’t have Limewire,you can download it from its official website.
Search and download songs from Limewire. You may get songs in all sorts of formats, but not all formats are supported by iPod. Usually I select three formats: MP3, AAC and M4A formats that are supported by iPod and can be directly transferred to iPod using iTunes. For the detailed specs info, you can visit http://www.apple.com/ipod/specs.html . After you download the songs, open your iTunes, click “File” from the upper left corner, select “Add file to library”, browse your computer hard drive and find the songs downloaded by Limewire, select the songs you prefer, click OK and the songs will be put in your iTunes. Then you can just transfer the songs to your iPod from iTunes.

2.Put DVD/Video to iPod
I have a huge collection of DVD movies and video files. And I always put a few movies on my iPod to kill time while travelling.
DVD movies cannot be transferred to iPod via iTunes, so I had to find a converter to do that. I have used a few converters and the one I am using now is Wondershare DVD to iPod Ripper. It is not free, but not expensive either. I decided to spend the money coz it does a good job on the final quality and conversion speed. And if I don’t want to put a whole movie, I can just convert part of a movie onto my iPod with this app. My OS is Windows, so I use the Windows version. If you are using a Mac OS, I have noticed that they have a Mac DVD to iPod converter that you can try, which I don’t know if is as good because I don’t have Mac OS.



Most of my video files are not MP4 formats that can be directly used on iPod, so I also bought the video to iPod converter from the same company coz I thought it would also be nice app, and it turned out to be so.
Actually, this video converter and the DVD converter are pretty much the same as far as the functions and the operational steps are concerned, and the only difference to me is that one is to convert DVDs and the other is to convert video files. If you also want a video to iPod converter, you can just download a trial version to see if it is what you need. Unfortunately, they don’t have a Mac version for video converters.3.Put DVD/Video to iPod
I have a huge collection of DVD movies and video files. And I always put a few movies on my iPod to kill time while travelling.
DVD movies cannot be transferred to iPod via iTunes, so I had to find a converter to do that. I have used a few converters and the one I am using now is Wondershare DVD to iPod Ripper. It is not free, but not expensive either. I decided to spend the money coz it does a good job on the final quality and conversion speed. And if I don’t want to put a whole movie, I can just convert part of a movie onto my iPod with this app. My OS is Windows, so I use the Windows version. If you are using a Mac OS, I have noticed that they have a Mac DVD to iPod converter that you can try, which I don’t know if is as good because I don’t have Mac OS.



Most of my video files are not MP4 formats that can be directly used on iPod, so I also bought the video to iPod converter from the same company coz I thought it would also be nice app, and it turned out to be so.
Actually, this video converter and the DVD converter are pretty much the same as far as the functions and the operational steps are concerned, and the only difference to me is that one is to convert DVDs and the other is to convert video files. If you also want a video to iPod converter, you can just download a trial version to see if it is what you need. Unfortunately, they don’t have a Mac version for video converters.

3. Youtube video to iPod
I often visit Youtube to watch videos and sometimes I download videos from Youtube to put on my iPod. Youtube videos are in FLV formats, so I use a free online FLV converter to do the conversion:
Firstly, go to Youtube and open the page of the video you want to put on your iPod. And you will find the Youtube URL of this video to the right of the playback window. Then copy this URL. See the highlighted area in the figure below:


Secondly, go to http://vixy.net/ , paste the copied URL into the URL field of this web page, and select “MP4 for iPod/PSP” from the “Converts to” drop-down list. Then click “Start” below this list to start the conversion. See the highlighted areas below:

Finally, after the conversion, this website will provide a download link for you to download the converted MP4 file. When you see the link, you can just download the final file from the link, save the downloaded MP4 file on your computer and use iTunes to sync it on to your iPod.



4. Put games on iPod
An iPod is not a professional game player like a PSP, but it does handle some easy and fun games nicely. One way to get iPod games is to buy them from iTunes store and sync them onto your iPod. If you want play free games on your iPod, which is something I often do, you can use iPodLinux and Rockbox, and there is a great guide you can refer to on how to put games on iPod with these two tools. Click here to view the guide.

5. Sync music and videos to iPod
Obviously, using iTunes to sync files to iPod is the choice of many iPod users. I use iTunes myself but I have found it a bit clunky. Apart from iTunes, there are also apps you can use to sync files to your iPod, either free or not:
a. YamiPod. YaniPod is very popular free tool to transfer files to iPod and it has different version for different operation systems.
b. Xplay. A friend recommended Xplay. I have tried it and found it is a great tool to sync files to my iPod and I just need to “drag-and-drop” my files to my iPod. I haven’t bought it yet but I think it is definitely worth a try.
c. MGTEK. This app can sync files with Windows Media Player 11. It is also a very nice tool and pretty cheap.
d. Wondershare iPod Video Transfer. This iPod sync tool is also free tool and it is built into the DVD to iPod Ripper and Video to iPod converter from this company. The two iPod converters are definitely great apps, as I motioned above. But their iPod Video Transfer still remains much too be desired, coz it doesn’t do a very good job syncing music to my iPod, although it is a nice tool to sync videos.

There are a lot more sync tools and you can refer to a comparison list on Wikipedia to and see which ones best work for you.

The above is my experience with converting and transferring files from various sources to my iPod, and I hope it can shed some light

How to rip DVD movies and convert vob to avi?

This tutorial is about how to use Wondershare DVD Ripper Platinum to rip DVD movies, convert vob to avi and how to edit DVD Movies. As we know, DVD movie are contained in vob files, so we need to convert vob to avi and other regular video formats. With Wondershare DVD Ripper Platinum, you can rip DVD movies and edit DVD movies with only a few steps.

Step 1: Load the DVD Movies
Open Wondershare DVD Ripper Platinum, and click load file. Here we can load three kind of DVD's:
1. Real DVD, just put the DVD in your DVD drive and click load DVD, ( you can find it by clicking the triangle on the right of 'load file' button.)
2. DVD ISO image, you can amount your iso files in the daemon tools and then load the DVD movie from the virtual DVD drive.
3. A DVD folder, sometimes you may store the DVD folder in your hard drive, it appears like "Video_ts" "audio_ts" folders. You can load it by clicking the "load DVD folders" button.
Tips: Wondershare DVD Ripper platinum cannot convert vob to avi or other video formats directly, in order to convert vob to avi or other video formats, you need to load the vob files from DVD rom or DVD folders




Step 2: Select formats
a) Regular DVD movies usually has several subtitles, like English, French, German, etc. You can select anyone according to your need.
b) Select Audio track as the same as select Subtitle.



c) Format: this software can convert DVD to all popular formats, it also can extract audio track from DVD and save as MP3 and M4A formats which are fit for digital audio players.



Step 3: Start to convert
If you don’t want to set any detailed settings, you can just select an output format from the format drop-down list and click the “Start” button to rip DVD movies and convert vob to avi or any other video formats. Then you can just go get a cup of coffee and come back later to check if the conversion is finished.

However, before you start the conversion, you may find the following operations useful to edit DVD movies:
Trim movie: If you don’t need to convert the entire DVD movie, you can just capture a clip from it to convert. See the two pairs of scissors under the Preview window? The scissors one the left are used to set the start time, and the scissors on the right are used to set the end time. Drag them to capture the clip you want to convert. If you want to precisely trim the video, you can click the Trim button on the top of the preview window.

Crop Video: There are always black edges around DVD movies; you can easily edit the DVD movie and remove them with this DVD Ripper. Click the Edit icon to open the Edit window. Go to the Crop tab, and you can set the output video aspect ratio crop the movie video. The program provides you with three methods to crop your video: select a crop mode from the Crop down-down menu, drag the crop frame around your video, or set the crop values (Up, Down, Left and right).

If you want to edit DVD movie effects, you can go to the Effect tab to set the brightness, contrast, saturation and select a pre-set movie effect.

A Professional Video Converter On Line

Recently, i surfed online, found a great and powerful third part converter software which call Wondershare Video Converter, a well know converter software online. A screen as follow.



Below is a description on the site:
Wondershare Video Converter is professional video converting software to convert video files and extract audio tracks from video with super clear output quality. It completely supports almost popular multimedia portable devices such as PSP, iPod, iPhone, mobile phone and more other players. Besides, Wondershare Video Converter provide >200% converting speed, so fast beyond your imagination;

The Wondershare Video Converter has powerful video editing function for advance user, it supports to trim any segment of movie, crop video site and edit video effect. And it has option to automatically shut down your PC after conversion. Meanwhile, Wondershare Video Converter built-in iPod and PSP file manager tools, which allow you to transfer files between PC and iPod or PSP with ease.

Compared with other dvd ripper, such as daniusoft dvd ripper, aimersoft dvd ripper, Wondersahre dvd ripper seem to be more easy to use and have more powerful function.

Video to Gphone and DVD to Gphone Converter

T-mobile released G1 one month ago, and it's reported T-Mobile has already sold all of its preorder units. No other companies have yet premiered Android-based phones, but rumors abound about many in the works. Allegedly, five other cell phone makers are working on Gphones—possibly including Samsung, LG, and Motorola. Qualcomm is supposed to definitely be one of the other makers. So i guess the Gphone will receive a big mobile phone market share in the future.

Relating to conversion market, do you think video to Gphone or DVD to Gphone will have a great market prospect? I think so, as long as the Gphone have a good market prospect, so will the Gphone conversion market.

And I have search "Gphone converter" on google, i have find some companies have already released the Video to Gphone and DVD to Gphone converter. But these sites seem to be just so so, and Xily, PQ, Cucu didn't release related products.

Meanwhile, i have foundd G1 specify, the input format of Gphone is MPEG-4, H.264 Video, MP3,WAV, AAC and AMR, and i found that Wondershare mobile phone converter which completely Gphone, it can all video to Gphone support videos.

In my opinion, if one leading converter software company develop and release such software (DVD to Gphone and video to Gphone Converter), it will grad the Gphone Conversion market easily.

What Gphone Look Like and Its Concept Designs

The iPhone has surely disappointed a lot of people out there but there is a new gadget, yet to come, which will definitely overpower the iPhone market and it is none other than the great Google Phone. The Google Phone is a 3rd generation gadget being designed by Google to bring the Google-Life to phones and mobiles.

Google Phone vs iPhone

There are rumors that the new Google Phone will simply out throw iPhone out of the gadget industry but of course nothing can be said so surely till its out in the market. Before its release, iPhone was said to have remarkable features but the gadget has turned out to be a disappointment for most of the Apple fans. Here are some Google Phone Concept Designs for you that will help you judge if the Google Phone will be powerful enough to dominate the iPhone market.

Though the concept design by Dog Orgod is simply out of this world but its too ideal to be the real Google Phone.

Why Google should have developed its own Gphone

Google is positioning itself for the future. It’s conquered search on the Internet, revolutionized advertising with AdSense, and opened the door for the development and acceptance of Web applications like Gmail and Gcal. At the same time Google is leading a media renaissance with the acquisitions of YouTube, Blogger, Picasa.

Google could sit tight and count its pennies, not unlike what Microsoft did during its heyday, or it could push forward, beyond the desktop and into the mobile world, where content and information are meeting voice communication and the cell phone.

So what will be Gphone be?

If done right, the Gphone will change the wireless industry, at least in the U.S. If not done right, the Gphone will be just another cell phone with some advanced features. Here’s what it might look like, if done right:

Tech Specs

Operating System

The big rumor is that Google is working on its own operating system, which would make sense if Google is to tie all of its applications and properties together in a cell phone. Back in 2005, Google purchased the mobile software company Android, started by Danger cofounder and former president Andy Rubin. The Android/Google team supposedly has developed a Linux-based mobile OS, which one expects will integrate tightly with Google’s interests to provide a satisfying user experience.