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Hey, Motorola And Verizon, How Does It Feel To Be Upstaged By Your "Partner" Google?

Here's what we still don't understand about Google's Google Phone (Nexus One) strategy: How is Google planning to deal with the obvious partner conflict?

By most accounts, the Nexus One is a better phone than the "Droid" that Motorola and Verizon are currently spending untold amounts of money advertising. The Motorola and Verizon advertising is unquestionably helping Google, by selling Android phones and raising awareness of Android. And now Google's distribution of its own phone to employees has completely stolen the thunder from the Verizon ad campaign.

"Droid Does"?

Who cares?

All anyone wants to know about right now is what the Google Phone does. And it apparently does a lot.

PLANTING YOUR ELECTRONIC FLAG

We all know that Google is in bed with the government… I suppose it’s nice that CEO Eric Schmidt is at least open about it.

In a recent interview with CNBC, Schmidt effectively admits that Google archives everything about a user– web searches (google), email and contact lists (gmail), online office documents (google docs), photographs (picasa), text and voice messages (google voice), and even a user’s current location (google maps).

The depth of this information is a bureaucrat’s fantasy, and as Schmidt indicates, Google is obliged to hand it over.

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