According to reports in The Independent and The Washington Post, Google has begun showing prototypes of its vaunted Google Phone to manufacturers. We all know more or less what it's going to do (something involving web search and advertising), but no one knows what the darn thing looks like.
While Google prizes itself on getting you answers right away, this service, ironically, does not extend to its own products; an image search on Google for "google phone" brings up a depressing array of Photoshop hack jobs and seemingly fake patent drawings, and Google itself is staying tight-lipped.

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It's a shame more designers aren't looking beyond just the shape of the phone and wondering about the Design of the business which Google might hatch. I took a shot ( http://blog.rebang.com/?p=1354 ). Why not do the same? Why not get the design community thinking about business so that maybe, just maybe, some of them will break through the low glass ceiling that keeps Industrial Design mostly subservient to other disciplines?