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Google introduces the Fiber Phone
July 27, 2025
So, clearly we’ve been seeing massive leaps in mobile technology over the course of the last decade. It’s gotten to the point that when we think of “phones,” the object to spring to mind is a smart device, not that corded antique attached to your grandmother’s kitchen wall. Although home phones have come a long way since party lines and the one-per-household model from the Brady Bunch, they’ve basically remained unchanged since the days of N’Sync and rollerblades. Google is angling to change that, however. Their vision of the future of the home phone is theFiber Phone.
Avid readers of this site might be surprised to learn that home phones are even still a thing, but they definitely are. Outside our little tech-enthused bubble, lots of families and homeowners still regularly make use of landline services. Fiber Phone wants to drag this technology kicking and screaming into the modern age. The idea is to make your home phone, well, mobile.
Speaking of that cloud capability, this is the real winning feature of Google’s service. You can effectively ‘log in’ to your home phone from anywhere. Any landline phone, any mobile device, or even any computer. You can also configure it to ring your landline when your at home, but divert incoming calls to your mobile device when you’re away. All in all, pretty slick stuff.
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