Rubin Is the Google Phone Guy?

Another great article from The New York Times about Google's Andy Rubin, the man who is probably leading the Google Phone team.

Rubin's big invention was the Sidekick, an average smart phone that gained a cult status by catering to the youth culture (Paris Hilton had one when she was still, eh, "hot"). I doubt the Google phone's hardware or software will be anything we haven't seen before (unles it's as sexy as the picture on the right). People will probably be disappointed. The revolutionary part should come from how cheap the phones will be to use and the huge spectrum of third-party apps the phones will eventually have. My prediction is that the available functionality (through third party apps) of a Google OS phone will be ten times any other phone (including the iPhone) two years from now. Whether it will work as well as the iPhone is another story.