Podcast: Will the Google phone be subsidized?

Google is preparing to launch and sell a new smartphone, untethered from the cellular carriers. Learn the two factors that will determine its success.

The Big Question is a joint production from ZDNet and TechRepublic that I co-host with TechRepublic Editor in Chief Jason Hiner.

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Stories discussed in this episode:

• The Google Phone: Risks, rewards and wild cards (ZDNet)
• Why So Many Are So Wrong on the 'Google Phone' (PC Magazine)
• Google phone with T-Mobile contract in Jan: source (Reuters)
• Google to launch unlocked Nexus One Android smartphone in 2010; disrupt mobile industry (ZDNet)
• Top 10 Google Phone rumors (ZDNet)