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Official Google Phone Coming in January 2010, Testing Now

I like that it's thin and that the CPU is apparently fast, the noise reduction sounds useful too. The fact that it sells unlocked is the best thing that can happen to a phone. OLED is also great. Voice dictation probably doesn't work well enough to be useable though, as I've never seen it work well anywhere before.

It looks way too plasticky and ugly, just like the Android OS itself. I'm only talking about the look of it, which is very important to me. Google really has enough money to design a nicer GUI and a nicer phone...
 
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DaveGee said:
Shoooosh up!

Hey if you like technology and big companies spending the monies they spend to continue to produce faster better cheaper devices then I'm all for it.

Apple could become VERY VERY stagnant with the iPhone if it weren't for phones like this that make them say ... hey we can't hang out in the slow lane for the next 12 months and milk the current version like they have a habit of doing with most other hardware they build.
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Thing, is, Apple is just as competitive and hungry *without* competition. Apple developed the iphone thus far in the stark absence of any real competition. Apple simply doesn't stop. Apple seeks to outdo *themselves* each time, and that is definitely a tall order. And come June, Google or no Google, we'll soil ourselves once we see what Apple will reveal at their phone event. Google and the also-rans won't even see it coming. Rest assured.
 
Love it.
Apple has been resting on their laurels for 2 years with this iPhone.

There are so many things we put up with-- and Apple could have easily improved on some features over the past 2 years, but didn't-- simply because there was no realistic competition.

If the Google phone is super great, i'll buy it.
I really really hope it is, so Apple is forced to up their game.

And PS- I hope AT&T gets the hint as well and improves their coverage.
 
MrGouda said:
You obviously didn't read the entire article: "The phone will be produced by a major phone manufacturer but will only have Google branding (Microsoft did the same thing with their first Zunes, which were built by Toshiba)."

Same thing with the iphone. Apple doesn't make it, Foxconn does. Sure, Apple designed it, but they don't build them.
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True, but there is only one official iPhone. How many official Google phones have we heard about?
 
*LTD* said:
Thing, is, Apple is just as competitive and hungry *without* competition. Apple developed the iphone thus far in the stark absence of any real competition. Apple simply doesn't stop. And come June, Google or no Google, we'll soil ourselves once we see what Apple will reveal at their phone event. Rest assured.
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Why do we have to wait until June for the phone event to "soil ourselves" with something tremendous from Apple? Apple COULD have given us something much earlier--- but didn't because there was simply no competition.

People went gaga over cut and paste..... as if it was the next great thing.

I'm an Apple fan, no doubt, but I still would like to see Apple do more.
 
zub3qin said:
Love it.
Apple has been resting on their laurels for 2 years with this iPhone.

There are so many things we put up with-- and Apple could have easily improved on some features over the past 2 years, but didn't-- simply because there was no realistic competition.

If the Google phone is super great, i'll buy it.
I really really hope it is, so Apple is forced to up their game.

And PS- I hope AT&T gets the hint as well and improves their coverage.
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i totally agree. i upgraded from 2G to 3GS and it's worth it. but from 3G to 3GS it's not. That means apple has not much improved in two years. most notably battery life, camera quality and such should have been improved. Also on the software side there are some things not optimal yet.

as always, competition is good.
 
I'm no fan of Google and have no intention of buying this thing. But the competition should light a fire under Apple's @$$. Perhaps the next iPhone update will have an earth-shattering feature.
 
ctt1wbw said:
Why do people keep calling this a Google phone? HTC made it, not Google. You could also call any other Android cell phone a Google phone. This makes no sense at all to me. If Google made the phone, then yeah it could be called a Google phone.
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This thing has confusion written all over it.
 
*LTD* said:
This thing has confusion written all over it.
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As a casual observer I'm not sure who's making or doing what now. Google made the Android OS, yea? But it's being used in phones, a desktop OS, a netbook OS? And then theres Google Voice so just how are these networks going to get money (outside of Data charges). And this phone was not made by Google, even though it's an official Google phone?

Yea. I'm not entirely following this now.
 
Jeaz said:
Hang on, GSM? So no 3G? Good luck selling it outside US as an iPhone competitor.
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No. 3G, or "third-generation", is a generic term. The phone will most likely support the third-generation protocol for high-speed data in the GSM world called HSDPA (high speed downlink packet access).
 
*LTD* said:
Thing, is, Apple is just as competitive and hungry *without* competition. Apple developed the iphone thus far in the stark absence of any real competition. Apple simply doesn't stop. Apple seeks to outdo *themselves* each time, and that is definitely a tall order. And come June, Google or no Google, we'll soil ourselves once we see what Apple will reveal at their phone event. Google and the also-rans won't even see it coming. Rest assured.
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Exactly.

All these other companies are making iPhone wannabes.

For those with short term memory, companies did the same with iPod wannabe and that just make people want to buy the real iPod.
 
*LTD* said:
Thing, is, Apple is just as competitive and hungry *without* competition. Apple developed the iphone thus far in the stark absence of any real competition. Apple simply doesn't stop. Apple seeks to outdo *themselves* each time, and that is definitely a tall order. And come June, Google or no Google, we'll soil ourselves once we see what Apple will reveal at their phone event. Google and the also-rans won't even see it coming. Rest assured.
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I am Jack's overwhelming sense of disbelief.

I own an iPhone (had the original and now have a 3G) and you are approaching cult like fanatacism there. I told people from day one that the most amazing thing Apple did with the iPhone was to convince the average consumer that they "need" a smart phone. But whether they invented the idea or not this phone (or the HTC Bravo if this is in fact not the Bravo) and others are going to start taking a chunk out of the iPhone market.

Apple does not strive to outdo itself -- it strives to make money like every other company. Their company "personality' may be somewhat unique, but they aren't this benevolent force bent on eradicating evil empires for the good of all mankind. They are a company. The iPhone has some serious flaws that they have to correct if they want to maintain their market share. Apple has failed to make me "soil myself" since the iPhone came out and I think I'm more pro-iPhone than the average guy too. Cut and paste and landscape email is not enough anymore.

In the end it's a phone. It is not your identity. I have requirements and desires for what I would like a phone to do to enhance my life and if the gPhone meets more of them than the iPhone, I'm in.

You are not your mobile phone, people.
 
*LTD* said:
Thing, is, Apple is just as competitive and hungry *without* competition. Apple developed the iphone thus far in the stark absence of any real competition. Apple simply doesn't stop. Apple seeks to outdo *themselves* each time, and that is definitely a tall order. And come June, Google or no Google, we'll soil ourselves once we see what Apple will reveal at their phone event. Google and the also-rans won't even see it coming. Rest assured.
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+1

Apple's main goal is make the best products they can, for the present and future, and which their employees themselves are happy to use. It's not just for money. They don't really care about competition. It's not like there's been any real iPod competition for instance, yet they kept improving the iPods over the years.
 
Interesting the disdain for a "plasticky" phone. Last I looked, my iphone's shell is plastic.

Fanboys attack!
 
Software compnay doing a hardware company's job?

This looks interesting and I'm sure part of frustration from Google seeing the full OS not being done right by the hardware manufactures concern for things like manufacturing BOM cost and yields that determine profits.

I'm guessing but from the specifications of this all out Android phone: 1) This is going to loss lead and Google will write it off as a promotional expense. 2) Being so thin, the battery life is going to worst than the 3GS. 3) Only a matter of time before this one is rooted and security is compromised. 4) Will become a serious collectors item in a few years. 5) This is a PDA if you buy it and don't active any service.

I'll be picking one up just to mess with it.
 
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