Google Phone With Voice Navigation and QWERTY Keyboard

The upcoming Google Mobile Phone may have have voice recognition and speech based navigation from Nuance of Dragon NaturallySpeaking and a Blackberry style QWERTY keyboard but no touchscreen navigation.

Mark May says he doesn’t expect Google to manufacture the phone itself, but rather provide an operating system and a suite of applications that “would appeal to consumers and professionals,” like the mail and word processing applications it already provides to PC users.

BG - One entrepreneur who has seen the Google phone prototype described it as “simpler” and not as flashy as Apple’s iPhone. He praised the phone’s ability to scroll through icons horizontally, making a number of different features easily accessible despite the limited screen space.

Another entrepreneur, who saw a prototype earlier this year, described three-dimensional, animated buttons on the screen. That prototype had a small QWERTY keyboard, like a Treo or a BlackBerry, rather than relying on a touch-screen, as the iPhone does. Link.