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Google Launches Nexus One: T-Mobile Plan Available Now, Verizon and Vodafone Coming Soon
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That wont ever happen. I read this is another forum.
For everyone that's waiting for AT&T to get anything other than an iPhone you're sort of missing the reality of what's really going on. If you've noticed, AT&T has yet to receive a single other high-end phone other than the iPhone. This is entirely because of AT&T's relationship with Apple. Not only does AT&T give iPhone users special privileges (early upgrades to new iPhones, etc.), but they also only choose to advertise the iPhone and not anything else (they also subsidized the price greater than they subsidize the price of other devices so as to continue to keep giving the iPhone a sales advantage). They've even declined other products that would essentially compete with the iPhone.
As a result of this relationship pretty much every company has just decided to stop supporting AT&T in the realm of high end smartphones and if you're waiting to receive anything other than an iPhone my guess is that you'll be waiting for a long time because no one is showing any signs of giving AT&T any support whatsoever. When companies are choosing to give T-Mobile support (a smaller carrier) over a larger carrier that tells you a hell of a lot. Hell, even Sprint got a decent Android device.
You have a better chance of the iPhone going to other carriers before seeing high end smartphones going to AT&T courtesy of how they've treated all the cell phone manufacturers and continue to worship Apple.
As expected, no love for NZ. I wonder whether we'll see a "better" set of frequencies in a later model (I need WCDMA 850).
I'm not that impressed, Google voice and the notifications bar are the only things that are attractive about android. The new hardware is still ugly, like all android phones, minus the original hero, and the software doesn't take advantage of the increased hardware specs as much as it should, ie. it's not as fast as it should be.
Agreed.
Googles products and services sometimes seem like devices designed by geeks not taking into account the mainstream consumer. Look at how sparse their landing page is for the phone. If i'm an average consumer and looking for comparative information and illustrations, especially as it pertains to the iPhone, there is none. It's a bunch of text on a page that the average person can't even decipher. Apple just seems incredibly more....'elegant' if you will.
If this was Microsoft with the exact same initiative, it would be ripped to shreds on this board. Competition IS great, and that means from whomever. For instance, the ZUNE is actually a rather nice device in its current iteration, but due to the perceived infallible superiority or the iPod, and the tech worlds reluctance to praise any other competitor other than Google, it doesn't stand a chance.
I think your head is rammed a bit too far up Apple's arse mate.
This phone looks a lot better than a lot of the other phones out there at the moment. It's just a shame that it's not a flip phone.
Oh, just like when Apple scrapped the iPod Mini (which at the time was the BEST selling iPod) and made the Nano?
What sorta makeover are you looking for?
They have sold millions of phones. I don't seem them changing anything about the phone just for the sake of change.
Verizon is awesome because it never got the iPhone and has had the benefit of two years' worth of learning from AT&T's difficulties. Easy to be awesome when your competition's already blazed the trail for you.
I wonder if Verizon will move google functionality and add Microsoft Bing to the home page, like it does with other Verizon phones?
That's a lot of stuff on the very top line on that phone! Kind of PC-ish.
Although I don't own an iPhone, I guess I'm used to seeing the perfectly square, artistically done icons, four across, four up...
Not prejudiced just when you see Nexus One, it just looks empty in some areas and crowded in others.
And those critiquing T-Mobile, sure it's a small carrier with not as many subscribers as att/verizon, it has a different 3G GSM technology, etc., but it has served me well here in the Mid Atlantic area where I live. While I am not a worldly traveler to speak intelligently of whether it has spotty service across the nation or across my state even or in rural areas in my state etc, it has served my needs without fail and my plan is not to shabby either. To outright dismiss T-Mobile with prejudice does a disservice to those of us who subscribe and are happy with teh company and with what we have.
Although I don't own an iPhone, I guess I'm used to seeing the perfectly square, artistically done icons, four across, four up...
Not prejudiced just when you see Nexus One, it just looks empty in some areas and crowded in others.
And those critiquing T-Mobile, sure it's a small carrier with not as many subscribers as att/verizon, it has a different 3G GSM technology, etc., but it has served me well here in the Mid Atlantic area where I live. While I am not a worldly traveler to speak intelligently of whether it has spotty service across the nation or across my state even or in rural areas in my state etc, it has served my needs without fail and my plan is not to shabby either. To outright dismiss T-Mobile with prejudice does a disservice to those of us who subscribe and are happy with teh company and with what we have.
Tell that to my games.
Anyway, what a disappointing phone. Horrible storage. Nice screen, though.
I'm sure all the iPhone haters will declare it as the messiah, but what an earlier poster said is correct, it's an iPhone clone with few apps (also low app storage) and a disorganized UI.
You're probably right given what Apple has done to their laptops.
I don't get it though. My iPhone can barely last a full workday. By the ride home it needs to be in the car charger.
Our company is looking to do enterprise apps. Given the battery and the onerous Apple store method of distribution, the Nexus looks worth investigating. Maybe I won't have to learn Obj-C after all.
Let's see
Google fails to address app storage issue with Droid and Android 2.0
http://androidandme.com/2009/10/new...app-storage-issue-with-droid-and-android-2-0/
Except that if it's a large app with data, not all of the data is stored in the primary memory.
Also, from another thread (and this one too):
The new 3D user interface is pretty nice. And it has voice input throughout the whole phone and not just for some specific application which even seems to work very nicely. Dictating emails and sms will be lots of fun. Not to mention that it is only half the price of an iPhone 3GS 32GB. Seems really to be not just a smart- but a Superphone!
Other than lack of triband 3G and small built-in storage (which is still where apps can run exclusively for now), the hardware spec looks very nice. But to me, it's the software that matters more. Having used Droid, I just can't get myself warm up to Android OS. It's certainly one of two platforms I would choose (the other being Palm WebOS) if I had to stop using iPhone, but it just looks and feels clunky to me.
Also, as was stated in the launch event:
Q: Why 512MB for app storage only?
A: They store apps in the internal ROM and not on the SD card now, for piracy reasons, but they will offer an upgrade soon for installing apps on the SD card.
So it would appear that apps will be able to be stored on removable storage soon enough, making the inbuilt storage limitation a thing of the past.
The new Google phone: the Nexus One unveiled out today 5th Jan 2010!!
http://www.channel4.com/news/articl...w+google+phone+the+nexus+one+unveiled/3489027
http://news.google.co.uk/news?q=goo...ent=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wn
The new Google phone: the Nexus One unveiled
http://www.channel4.com/news/articl...w+google+phone+the+nexus+one+unveiled/3489027
http://news.google.co.uk/news?q=goo...ent=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wn
The new Google phone: the Nexus One unveiled
LoL behind this 'iphone killer'? haha probably not.
Lets not forget that ATT and every other carrier around the world had to change their backend to accommodate some of the features (like visual voice mail). And the fact that it's Verizon. Trust me, talks will break down again when Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg will demand that jobs slap a big check mark on the back of the phone and demand removal of the app store and itunes in favor of the Verizon media store haha.
That Apple didn't make it, and Steve didn't personally bless it. Honestly, I love my Macs, love my iPods, but I'm not blind to the fact that there are some great products out there that aren't made by Apple.
The Android platform is one of them.
Oh I don't know, maybe the other two issues I mentioned?
Liiiiiiiike.. piss-poor internal memory and an inelegant UI?
And no apps?
And developers not wanting to develop apps, because they can't make money?
I'm sure I can think of more.
Apple will be releasing iPhone OS 4.0 and a tablet that (might) dominate the education industry, by the end of this month. We'll see how much leverage android has then.