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- secleinteer, on 05/31/2008, -4/+89So why is this under the Apple category?
- D3koy, on 05/31/2008, -1/+74I'd use it, and considering it is Google, odds are hundreds of skins and themes will be added by third parties later on, so it'll look really slick
- smurf22, on 05/31/2008, -9/+70I'm digging the slide to unlock feature.
- andindt08, on 05/31/2008, -3/+61Screen transitions were smooth.
- funsutton, on 05/31/2008, -6/+54I love good competition. It will keep apple on their toes.
- SQLserver, on 05/31/2008, -8/+53Android, as in Linux on an Open source Phone, backed by a big company, is a great idea.
It has potential to be so, so much more then the iPhone.
However, they are doing it wrong.
Things that have GOT to change:
1. Google should have polished the phone THEMSELVES first, and then introduced developers.
2. Google should have immediately come out with an actual PHONE running android.
besides that, Android is awesome. The pure potential of Linux on a Phone is amazing. - PabloMac, on 06/01/2008, -0/+35Because there is no "Google" category.
- LostRiot, on 06/01/2008, -3/+28I want it now.
- secleinteer, on 06/01/2008, -2/+24It'll be like the Macintosh and Windows, back in the 80s. The company that makes the OS separate from the hardware allows for price warring and innovation among the OEMs, ultimately resulting in a better product. The main difference is that this time, the OS will be open source, which will make sure that the OS doesn't start losing in terms of innovation either.
- locojones, on 06/01/2008, -2/+22LOL They can't patent an interface, it's unpatentable subject matter. And besides, it's rows of icons, which even if it were patentable, hardly qualifies as new, useful, and non-obvious. Grow up.
- Astheria, on 05/31/2008, -10/+29"i like how all the comments are getting buried by apple fanboys."
Actually it seems like most of the pro-apple comments are getting buried. I smell comment graveyard. - paOol, on 05/31/2008, -18/+37 i like how all the comments are getting buried by apple fanboys.
- osrevad, on 06/01/2008, -2/+20I hate sensational terms like iPod/iPhone/etc Killer. Just call it an iPod Competitor and leave it at that.
- p0tent1al, on 06/01/2008, -2/+18The story is from Appleinsider. I think the main reason is that Android is shaping up to be some real competition for the dominating iPhone.
- canthraxp, on 06/01/2008, -1/+17Hasn't Apple patented everything under the ***** sun?
- inactive, on 06/01/2008, -6/+20Mark my words... The day Google allows totally open software development and doesn't require any certification is the day you'll have to install Norton System Works: 2010 Mobile Edition.
- skyshock1, on 06/01/2008, -1/+13You're saying Android isn't going to have the same calibur of apps as WinMo because Java is a language nobody knows? That an open-source software system isn't going to be as customizable and/or extensible as a closed-source system?
I need some of what YOU'RE smoking! - s0urce, on 06/01/2008, -1/+13It's a brilliant phone and will run on a 3g network finally. Since it won't be exclusive to just ONE provider, that's a total win in my book.
- Arkitan, on 06/01/2008, -0/+11I do like the unlocking feature, I could see myself somehow changing things to make it "better" like I do with my computer and forgetting what I changed it to. Neat though.
- PuRowdy, on 06/01/2008, -2/+13That is so sweet, the unlocking pattern system is a nice change. I will pass on the iPhone and wait for Android, my BB will do for now.
- christopherRB, on 06/01/2008, -3/+14There are somethings that I have not seen on the IPhone that I really like. I hope they got the unlocking feature patented before microsoft or apple take it.
- Lemon, on 06/01/2008, -0/+10HTC
- inactive, on 06/01/2008, -9/+19Apple didn't invent the freaking App "store"!
Burried as lame! - rubblecovers, on 06/01/2008, -0/+10Installer
- svensksvamp, on 05/31/2008, -2/+12Yes they were
- inactive, on 06/01/2008, -1/+10I smell the inability to use the reply button.
- consonance, on 06/01/2008, -5/+14Because the Apple fanboys are circling the wagons.
- unionaire, on 06/01/2008, -4/+12what was the device on the display? it looks very similar to an iphone but apparently not an iphone
- iamjames, on 06/01/2008, -6/+14I will buy a Google phone.
- skyshock1, on 06/01/2008, -2/+91.) Google isn't releasing the source yet until they get it exactly like they want it, even though the SDK is available early. So they pretty much ARE polishing the phone themselves first.
2.) Google does have an actual phone running android. Many of them in fact. They're just not in mass-production yet. Is that what you meant? - Aleman360, on 06/01/2008, -0/+7yet...
- PatrickBrown, on 06/01/2008, -0/+7Here is the full movie & from much better perspective: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk1HvP7NO5w
Skip to around 23:50 mark for android stuff. - ThantiK, on 06/01/2008, -1/+8I'd say yes. Primarily because the development platform is open. Apple is releasing their SDK as a counter-measure to the Android platform, they know if they don't get lots of apps on the iphone quickly through third party developers it's likely they won't be able to keep their market share.
I know as soon as an iPhoneish Android phone is out in the market - I'm getting one. At this point I'll admit I'm a google fanboi ;) - iofthestorm, on 06/01/2008, -0/+6Good thing Android only allows Java apps which will run in a VM so bugs won't crash the system, at least if they design it well. And you joke, but my aunt's symbian phone had an antivirus app on it, although I don't really know what for.
- inactive, on 06/01/2008, -1/+7Wow, quick somebody call google and tell them they got it all wrong !
- iofthestorm, on 06/01/2008, -0/+6I don't know, ***** Steam? Apple fanboys are ridiculous sometimes.
- eleazar123, on 06/01/2008, -0/+6Handango InHand: http://www.handango.com/client/Home.jsp
Handango InHand offers free and convenient access to mobile content directly from your smartphone. InHand simplifies the process of finding, installing and purchasing the content you want. - iofthestorm, on 06/01/2008, -0/+5Are you serious? Java is one of the most popular languages these days, in large part because it runs on mostly anything, and even dumbphones run Java applets.
- Atomic1fire, on 06/01/2008, -1/+6Why is Shipyaad getting dugg down
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_PARC
Both Apple and Microsoft copyed parc
Apple Copyed parc and Microsoft copyed apple
No one except parc is original - drifter, on 06/01/2008, -1/+6It had some nice features thats for sure. The design, which can obviously be changed and customized, was a bit lacking.
But remember this is the software...now you need the hardware. if the phone its self is ugly, hard to use, or just not appealing. it wont matter what kind of software it has. - seventoes, on 06/01/2008, -0/+5Browse apps, put them on your phone.
Whats different?
App store costs money.
Explain what you think is wrong with all this. - skyshock1, on 06/01/2008, -0/+5Apple's iPhone since it came out sends SO much traffic to Google, that it would make ZERO sense for that to happen. Not to mention Google's CEO Eric Schmidt sits on the board of directors at Apple. Many of Google's competitors are actually customers as well. I've heard a few people describe it as coopetition.
- Aitese, on 06/01/2008, -0/+5Well, right now, and for the last 18 months there is this funny little link on my Nokia N95 called "Download" I can browns apps that Nokia have put in there by themselves and third parties like Gameloft, Google and Microsoft, free and non free and the cost gets billed to my phone bill.
What's my prize? - harmil, on 06/01/2008, -1/+6Keep in mind that the iPhone cannot kill Android (though the reverse is possible). This is because, like Linux and BSD (the underlying OS on which MacOS is built), Android is open source. This means that any single Android-based phone could fail in the market, and yet Android itself would continue to be a viable platform.
- locojones, on 06/01/2008, -9/+14You Apple zealots are really getting on my nerves. Perhaps you'd like to tell us what other kind of interface is possible on an all-touch screen device that doesn't include icons of the programs available? And while we're throwing around copying allegations, then I guess the iPhone UI is a copy of Microsoft Windows, who had point and click icons on the screen to run programs long before anything else.
- Shipyaad, on 06/01/2008, -3/+8*cough*xerox*cough*...
- colincornaby, on 06/01/2008, -1/+6Why would Android enjoy the same hype the iPhone did? The hype is all up to the device makers. The hardware is what's going to get advertising campaigns, not the software.
- phantom_mullet, on 06/01/2008, -2/+6You do realize that you completely invalidated your argument by saying, "Didn't watch the whole video," right?
RTFA, or in this case, WTFV. - iofthestorm, on 06/01/2008, -0/+4Also, "it" isn't a phone but an OS that runs on multiple phones. And themonkman, EVDO is just Verizon and Sprint's form of 3G, it can't be faster than itself, although it would be faster than AT&T's 3G.
- n3tfury, on 06/01/2008, -0/+4um, you do NOT want apple out of business. the more competition the better.
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