And the Nexus One and Droid are both under $200. The 32GB iPhone is $399. That's what I call comparably priced.
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And the Nexus One and Droid are both under $200. The 32GB iPhone is $399. That's what I call comparably priced.
Pretty neat, hopefully this will encourage Apple to push down prices or really starting pushing the iPhone forward.
On the downside it's going to make developing for Android even more painful as there's already a big gap between high-end and low-end devices that you have to try and cater for
On the downside it's going to make developing for Android even more painful as there's already a big gap between high-end and low-end devices that you have to try and cater for
Came here to say something like this.
Why is this on the main page at all? It seems page 2 material at best.
I have no idea but it's there.
Front / Top
[1] Power
[2] 3.5mm stereo headphone jack
[3] Charging and notification indicator
[4] Illuminated capacitive soft keys:
Back, Home, Menu, and Search
[5] Tri-color clickable trackball
An unlocked Nexus One costs $530 (as I'm in the UK I convert that to £330). I've not seen a brand new iPhone 3GS available for less than $530. In fact a lot of the ones I've seen are touching $1000. Please PM me a link to brand new unlocked iPhone 3GS's under $530 as I may have a cunning new business opportunity brewing
.Oh, and we can skip the SD costs. I'll throw in a 16GB SD card (or two) as part of the package as they're so cheap anyway.
Actually, AT&T never advertises the iPhone. They don't need to. The closest they are to advertising it is their recent attack ads at Verizon, where 3 of 4 of their selling points can be translated to "we have the iPhone, suck it" but do not actually mention the device. They do say device-specific, but still do not mention the phone.
Additionally, AT&T does still have most of the highest-end BlackBerrys and a few good HTC devices. The iPhone is not their only top-end device. It just happens to be the best
and AT&T just happens to be their exclusive carrier. I for one hope for a chip that would allow for the opportunity to choose the carrier I want to give my money to every month.
One of the problems I had with my iPhone 3g 8GB was once I ran out of space my options were:
Get a new iPhone or get a new iPhone. If I'd had the option to add more storage via the cheaper insert an SDHC Card method I it wouldn't have been an issue.
It's not prefect by any stretch of the imagination but you at least have the option of expanding your phone storage if you wanted to upgrade from 2, 4, 8, 16gb sd cards or whatever you have.
EDIT: Another advantage of the SD card method is that you can keep it across multiple devices. I'll be popping my SD card I already own (hence the cost of an SD card isn't an issue for me) from my Hero into my Nexus One once purchased.
A 32GB SD card is around 65 EUR, that is around 93 USD on Amazon.de.
The Nexus One (unlocked) comes with 4GB internal + 32 SD = 36 GB. Price: 530 USD + 93 USD = 623 USD.
iPhone 3GS 32 GB (unlocked) comes with... surprise 32GB. Price: 699 EUR which is about 1007 USD.
1007/623 = 1.61
IMHO that is "much cheaper".
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That's because Josh can't do a decent review. The purpose of the trackball on this - as is on the hero, which works very well - is so that extremely precise selections can be made without having to zoom in.
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I agree.
This video of the 3 phones loading the webpage pretty much says it all. Fancy backgrounds and high rez screens aside, it all comes down to speed and UI and one phone still does it better than them all.
Hmm, looks decent, but I don't see much that's revolutionary there. The screen has very nice specs, hopefully that will force Apple to upgrade their display.
The only app I really like is the Map app, the built-in navigation is pretty sweet. And if Apple is going to go it on their own with mapping, as it appears they will, do they have something that can compete? It would suck to lose Google Street View.
The only app I really like is the Map app, the built-in navigation is pretty sweet. And if Apple is going to go it on their own with mapping, as it appears they will, do they have something that can compete? It would suck to lose Google Street View.
SSSSHHHHHHHH. This is my plan all along. I'm not friend to AT&T, but I got to believe that it will get better when millions spread-out over the other carriers.
http://www.google.com/phone/static/en_US-nexusone_tech_specs.html
Some interesting observations one hour in.
The speaker and microphone is positioned so the back of the device is how you talk on the phone. Further the camera being there one could do video conferencing and speakerphone, albiet without seeing the visual on the other end.
The device has high Ghz and low memory and flash (too low?), and SD as the storage medium. This allows a user to switch media when it fills, to shift data easily, but is the OS internal and not on the SD card or does a second card need to have an OS installed if you are a switcher?
It uses the same radio stuff as the iPhone. GSM/EDGE.
It uses micro-USB and interestingly is not in the iPhone ecosystem with a compatible dock connector.
It uses an OS with a cute name that begs the question: was the prior iteration "donut"?
The video density and resolution is higher than iPhone roughly 800x480 vs 320x480. I doubt this is meaningful on such a small screen, but I expect Google to hang their hat on it.
The clickable trackball is non-trivial. It makes practical remote desktop and "legacy interface applications".
Rocketman
Some interesting observations one hour in.
The speaker and microphone is positioned so the back of the device is how you talk on the phone. Further the camera being there one could do video conferencing and speakerphone, albiet without seeing the visual on the other end.
The device has high Ghz and low memory and flash (too low?), and SD as the storage medium. This allows a user to switch media when it fills, to shift data easily, but is the OS internal and not on the SD card or does a second card need to have an OS installed if you are a switcher?
It uses the same radio stuff as the iPhone. GSM/EDGE.
It uses micro-USB and interestingly is not in the iPhone ecosystem with a compatible dock connector.
It uses an OS with a cute name that begs the question: was the prior iteration "donut"?
The video density and resolution is higher than iPhone roughly 800x480 vs 320x480. I doubt this is meaningful on such a small screen, but I expect Google to hang their hat on it.
The clickable trackball is non-trivial. It makes practical remote desktop and "legacy interface applications".
Rocketman
Does anyone know if you can teather with the device? I was wondering if the $39 a month prepaid t-mobile data plan + nexus one would make a good mobile internet device.
I'd actually consider getting the device if I can use if for that purpose.
I'd actually consider getting the device if I can use if for that purpose.
Google is going this direction as Apple closed iPhone i.e. App Store for many Google's apps i.e. their mobile ads. In reality, without Google's services, iPhone would be what Mac computers were before they were switched to Intel processors, nice looking and underpowered.
If it's up to Apple we would have to pay mail, maps and any other "service", same way as for MobileMe. Now Apple is moving to mobile ads (Quattro Wireless), but will this lead to savings for iPhone (iSlate?) owners. Yeah right!
If it's up to Apple we would have to pay mail, maps and any other "service", same way as for MobileMe. Now Apple is moving to mobile ads (Quattro Wireless), but will this lead to savings for iPhone (iSlate?) owners. Yeah right!
I have used the selection/copy/paste function of my iphone just a dozen times in all the time that I have owned it.
I cannot imagine anyone using the selection function that often that it warrants building in a trackball...
Honestly, on my third iPhone now (each model), and while the battery life isn't great, I've never really found it that big an issue except when they munged up something with one of the OS upgrades. I am a HEAVY user...but I'm always near a car charger, or a desk charger most of the day, and I have a Mophie juice pack for those times I won't be. I really don't think carrying around a few extra batteries in my pocket and replacing them is any better a solution than. It's really old school thinking. That said, I'm always a big fan of better/longer/more battery life for any device.
Wasn't Apple lambasted over and over when it first released the iPhone and said web-based apps were the way to go? Android phones get a pass on this? I'm pretty uninformed of the Android app situation beyond what you read about number of apps; so is their web-based method as you call it any better than Apple had 2.5 years ago for iPhone OS 1.x?
Verizon has it's own set of evils. Read some of Pogue's complaints about billing, and fees, and the Bing fiasco. I agree with you that Verizon would have been just as crushed, and likely still would be, if it had picked up the iPhone, or gets any device that has unlimited data usage, and actually makes it easy to use that data.
I took it he meant a Google Checkout account. I guess that comes with all Google accounts, technically, but I've got a dozen Google accounts, and I've never used, and have no interest in using Google checkout. Pretty seemless, is it? Just give Google your credit card number? (Hmmm..just one more bit of private information to Google, there. {sigh})
because if you have muli-touch you can pinch in to zoom and be as precise and you want to be