Google Inc (GOOG): X Marks The Spot

“It’s obviously our major market so, for us, having manufacturing here gets us much closer to our key customers and partners as well as our end users,” he said. “It makes for much leaner, more efficient operations.” And that efficiency will apparently carry over into the phone, which Woodside said would have low-power sensors to register context and environment so certain features of the phone can power down to save energy, and he said the phone will run on processors that are designed to save power and battery life as well. He did not go into details.

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