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- RoroCo, on 10/18/2009, -5/+145I am pretty geeked about getting an Android phone later this year, but I am really enjoying the fact that Google and Verizon are taking it to a personal level against AT&T ant the iPhone. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPYM-XTqcec&fea ...
I enjoy a good media feud, especially when it involves tech.
BTW... I enjoy gizmodo.com, but the direct link from BGR is much more informative. http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/10/16/android- ... - yocouchdigga, on 10/18/2009, -1/+89Nice, Android's really picking up steam now... Video of eclair boot on new Droid phone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBuLij0l7SU&fea ...
- Urgoz, on 10/18/2009, -7/+61***** love my G1.
- Parlo33, on 10/18/2009, -1/+49i hope the g1 will get 2.0
- mattisname, on 10/18/2009, -4/+39According to the cryptic countdown on Verizon's website (http://phones.verizonwireless.com/motorola/droid/? ...
,) the Droid is scheduled for launch on 11/9/09! - Lucid00, on 10/19/2009, -0/+23The Cynaogen C&D letter only pertained to the Google apps on Android not the hacks itself.
Google doesn't mind the hacks, just that their apps are being given away (I think they make money off of the apps by bundling them with certain phones). - skate3214, on 10/19/2009, -0/+18No one wants to hear what you have to say.
- rebrad, on 10/19/2009, -1/+18I hate AT&T and can't wait to drop them like they constantly drop me. What good is an iPhone if it only works sometimes except as an expensive iPod. I had Verizon before and it works everywhere I go. So when Verizon gets the God Phone, AT&T gets thrown in the trash. I wouldn't wish AT&T on anyone except my worst enemy.
- GeorgeClayton, on 10/19/2009, -0/+16The default notifications bar is sweet in my opinion.
All new notifications (new email, text, missed calls, phone messages, application updates, callender updates, etc) are displayed on the top bar. When you want to see more details, you slide it down with your finger & it shows details for each notification. Click on the notification & you're sent to that part of your phone (ex: click a text message notification & you go to that text message). - Culyt, on 10/19/2009, -1/+17You mean the giant Google search bar/voice search widget on the default home screen, integrated Google maps, gmail, gtalk and all the "with Google™" branding isn't enough?
The other thing, is while its coded by Google, they don't really own it (although they do own a bunch of default Google apps including the market). It's an OpenSource project, so any one could come along and make their own Android based system and remove the Google crap. They don't even charge license fees from what I understand. I get the feeling that this, and many other projects (Chrome, ChromeOS, Wave, WhiteFI/Whitespace, buying up darkfiber) are more like Google's endgame. - smacksaw, on 10/18/2009, -3/+19I am sure that if you were so inclined, you could do whatever you wanted to with it.
- Dacvak, on 10/19/2009, -3/+18My iPhone is jailbroken to Hell, and honestly, that's the only reason why it's so good. Stock iPhones are crap, imo. AT&T is even more crap.
That being said, if you're willing to put in the time, you can turn the iPhone into something that's difficult to compete with. I truly love Google and everything they do, and I honestly strongly dislike Apple. All sciences point towards me owning an Android phone. But I just can't justify it when my iPhone does so much, and with such a huge user-base, its apps and hacks expand at an incredibly fast rate. I really think the iPhone gets some unfair flack on Digg (as of lately), when really it's a fantastic phone, once you get past the proprietary ***** from Apple. - Samohtneas, on 10/19/2009, -1/+15Dude, this comment is mad stupid.
- bonofosho, on 10/18/2009, -0/+14your on digg. its not cool to be ignorant here.
- Kanaka, on 10/19/2009, -2/+15The thought of Android 2.0 with Sense UI on a Snapdragon Processor just makes me tingle all over. *Sigh*
- Wonderama, on 10/19/2009, -0/+13Google actively assisted Cynaogen to develop an effective workable solution to the issue of proprietary apps embedded within the Android OS.
- codered1322, on 10/19/2009, -1/+13I agree, but AT&T has the worst service. I need a phone, not an ipod that sometimes lets me make calls.
- cpressland, on 10/18/2009, -2/+14It might be fourth generation, but I doubt that it'll have 4G tech in it, probably just more speed improvements. At the moment Apple need to fix their software and not their hardware. iPhone OS 3.1.2 is a slow nasty bug-filled mess. Just do to iPhone OS what you done to Leopard, optimise.
- dysonlu, on 10/19/2009, -0/+10Basically, everything will get Flash, except the iPhone.
- Schmich, on 10/19/2009, -1/+11One thing I don't understand is how little "Google" is shown with Android. Google is associated with ease-of-use, quality etc. so why almost hide the fact that it's from Google? Lots of people who see Android just think it's just another "thing" that wants to compete against the iPhone and ignore it. Why? To them it's just like any other software/phone that has tried to compete, and they have all failed so why should this random "Android" make it?
That this release is speedy is quite nice considering "éclair" means lightning in French. I just wish "real" multi-touch (with gestures as we know them in the end of 2009) was included in default. After all isn't the Apple-Google friendship already starting to crumble anyways? - neuroticfish, on 10/19/2009, -2/+12Burying initiated. Requesting reinforcements.
- etx313, on 10/19/2009, -0/+10Yes, Adobe announced Flash player 10.1 for mobile phones and it's coming to android. But the Palm Pre comes first, I'm already in line for the Beta.
- Spanq, on 10/19/2009, -2/+12WTF are you talking about? Android has a very clean and simplistic UI.
- Hellicus, on 10/19/2009, -1/+11I really hope that the "glowing red eye" is just a one-time feature, like when you first boot it to life... I don't wanna see that every time I turn my phone on...
That said, I need this phone. Right now. - Culyt, on 10/19/2009, -4/+13Well it's open source so it shouldn't be a problem, although it would help if Google hadn't thrown lawyers at Cyangen and basicly screw with the entire Android development community (and a huge number of end users).
- nicksource, on 10/18/2009, -1/+10No news on Flash support?
I'd love proper access to Youtube, the mobile version is really disappointing. - 0siris, on 10/19/2009, -0/+9That sorta looked like a U to me, not an S.... just saying.
- ampdj89, on 10/19/2009, -2/+10I wish I had an Android, it's been a dream phone.
- yocouchdigga, on 10/19/2009, -0/+8If it bothers you so much, GTFO, n00b.
- smacksaw, on 10/18/2009, -0/+8It's a phone operating system, not a Dirty Sanchez. That's something you'd be proud to be ignorant of.
- tbttfox, on 10/19/2009, -1/+9I think, that's 11 days, 9 hours.
If you look at the page source (so I'm told), or write down all the symbols as numbers (as I did), the countdown ends on Oct. 30th. - theOster, on 10/19/2009, -1/+8thank you for being the voice of us all. i was afraid i'd never be able to voice my opinion by proxy.
- Madmech, on 10/19/2009, -2/+9The nice thing about Android is that you can customize it any way you want. You can even load different OS's or version of the same OS. It is wonderfully open (unlike some platforms) and thats what will make it win in the long run.
Personally I liked the interface, but I like the fact that I can change it later as well.
I have a feeling I will be retiring my 3GS for an Android handset in the near future. - makkaveli19, on 10/19/2009, -0/+7So you come to a technology content based site and call people nerds?
- LokitheComplex, on 10/19/2009, -0/+620% of all internet users visited you tube yesterday
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/youtube.com - centran, on 10/19/2009, -1/+7email is perfectly fine and widely used way to abbreviate electronic mail.
An acronym can be lower case. Those cases are usually when it has become more wide spread and is pronounceable(ie, laser, scuba). I would agree with you on SMS but some people might argue it is fine to have SMS in lowercase.
That being said... this is the internet, only break out your grammar nazi side when you can hardly understand someone. If you don't like it then stick to professional articles and journals. - DBeta, on 10/19/2009, -0/+6Every cell phone I've ever owned took way too long to boot. That said, rebooting my phone is a less than weekly thing, so it isn't much of an issue.
- dodger2020, on 10/19/2009, -0/+6Also, nowhere does it say it will be *launched* on the 30th. I think it's more likely that it will be *revealed* on the 30th and they're start taking pre-orders.
- cruelsniper, on 10/19/2009, -0/+6You can install various apps that will do this for you. Some free, some not so free
- ryansmith18, on 10/19/2009, -0/+6I don't understand. How can you be a Digg registered user and never heard of Android? That's just stupid.
- smacksaw, on 10/19/2009, -1/+7Lightstab...you do realise that Android being completely open source, coupled with the ability to do whatever you wish to it means that you will be able to do whatever you like and plenty of people will create themes for free just as they do with desktops, right?
We aren't thinking it's ugly because we don't care. It's like saying flour tastes like *****. I'm not eating flour - I am mixing it with some yeast, salt, water, spiced tomato sauce, mozzarella cheese, pepperoni, green peppers and sausage and will go step-by-step to make a pizza. - rusty0101, on 10/19/2009, -1/+7I get the feeling that the reviewer's have only been occasionally using Android as the app that does Facebook integration has been out since google's summer of code completed this year. The developer had been involved in gsoc and decided to see if he could use some of the skills he had aquired to make an app to do that work. His intent initially was to make it look like the settings interface on Android, which means that it very well got slipstreamed into the plans for Eclair.
If you are wondering, it doesn't import your FB contacts and make phone contacts out of them, it compares the contacts you already have in your phone, with your contacts on FB, then when it finds a match, it will grab the FB contact's photo and update your address book on your phone with that image. So if you're phone contact list is your 10 or 100 favorite people, those who have FB accounts who are your friends there, will get updated images on your phone for their contact. It won't import your 5,000 fb contacts as new phone contacts. - fandyllic, on 10/19/2009, -1/+6It better since the iPhone already does this as well.
- jmuh, on 10/19/2009, -0/+5I wish someone would leak some pics of the hardware already. I feel like we knew what the HTC Hero was going to look like months before it arrived in Europe, and again weeks before it was released in the US.
I know there is that *one* picture, but it's just a single shot of the front, which is basically just a screen. - insertAliasHere, on 10/19/2009, -1/+6A more important question than how fast it boots is, how many times are you going to boot it? If it's a stable platform with decent battery life, you could go weeks or more without ever having to reboot it. If that's the case, then the boot time wouldn't be very high on my criteria for purchasing a phone.
- simplyintricate, on 10/19/2009, -0/+5Yes, the HTC Dream (aka T-Mobile G1) has a Qualcomm CPU/GPU that can support 3d acceleration.
- tushyd, on 10/19/2009, -0/+5Really? Because I really like it. Yeah it looks clunky but it works well... I guess I'm more of a software guy than a flashy hardware guy.
- rusty0101, on 10/19/2009, -0/+5Well, it sounds like they worked out a deal that the google aps can be backed up by phone owners and re-installed after installing the Cyangen firmware. They even include the apps to do that apparently, but you have to have the phone with the aps on them.
Additionally I have read that there are alternatives to the google proprietary aps in development. We'll see.
Hell I'd just like a google maps app that kept my current position CENTERED on the map as I move. This business of letting you get to the edge of the screen then re-centering is crap. I can understand not wanting to undercut the market for GPS companies with 3d views and perhaps even an option to keep whatever edge of the screen is 'up' the direction of travel rather than North, but come on keep me in the 'center' of the screen. - CressCrowbits, on 10/19/2009, -0/+5And its ugly as sin. And the hinge OH GOD THE HINGE.
- theOster, on 10/19/2009, -0/+4i think it will be along the lines of this:
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/10/01/motorola ...
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/08/01/you-want ... -
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