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T-Mobile To Offer Android-Based Phone By Christmas

Give It A Freakin' Chance People!!!

I don't know about y'all but that sucky video really didn't show very much. There is by no means enough info to slam the gPhone yet. I ain't saying it's gonna blow the iPhone away but we should at least give it a chance. Sergei and Larry aren't stupid. Their going to make sure the gPhone has a fighting chance at taking a bite out of the apple.
 
crazyyankeefan said:
I can't believe some of you people! Just because you own an iPhone and you're a Mac loyal fan, you think iPhone is automatically always better than other phones all around? I bet many of you have complained about your new 3G for various issues, or even exchanged it just to achieve "perfection".

HTC has been making phones long before Apple started the first iPhone. Don't get me wrong. I think iPhone 3G is a great device, but this new device by HTC is definitely newer than 3G. Don't you think it's only reasonable to pass on judgement after you have check it out? To say that it won't have the features of iPhone or that iPhone is better at this point is just lame.
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I've owned HTC phones before. While HTC may have hit a home run with their phones, Apple has hit a grand slam in my book.

Maybe you shouldn't pass judgement before you get to know the people commenting.
 
wadejc85 said:
I've owned HTC phones before. While HTC may have hit a home run with their phones, Apple has hit a grand slam in my book.

Maybe you shouldn't pass judgement before you get to know the people commenting.
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Grand slam...that's by your point of view. I'm sure not the whole world think iPhone is the best phone ever by far.

IJ Reilly said:
Not following you. It seems you are more interested in characterizing people than responding to their arguments.
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Whatever dude...now you're just judging me as well.
 
wadejc85 said:
In response to the "Compass" video, I think spinning around in circles to see the entire 360 degree streetview will make me sick. ;)

I never had the stomach for rollercoasters. :p
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Yeah but imagine turn-by-turn directions utilizing the compass and possibly incorporating street-view. Very cool.

However, T-mobile is a pretty lack luster provider of broadband wireless. If you think ATT's 3G is shotty, T-mobile's is years behind that.
 
Competition is always good, hopefully Android will be good which will mean Apple have to work harder to keep up with it (and ahead of it).

I was having a look round the Google Android website, mainly their Developer Challenge - basically Google driving application development with cash incentives. They've got a list of the top 50 apps which made it to the second stage, some of them I personally found a bit worrying due to their use of the GPS functionality.

One of them is for lift sharing, you tell it where you're going and if anyone on your way wants to go to the same place it tells you so you can pick them up and share the ride (or something like that). There are a number of others which to me at least have the same fundamental problem - they encourage strangers to meet up based solely on them having the same app on their phone.

Not something I'd ever use and I can already see the lawsuits when someone gets murdered / assaulted / attacked or whatever by a lunatic after using such an app.

Its one advantage of the App Store - a responsible company can make sure only suitable apps get released. You won't have that with Android, which will be a free for all. I prefer the control though I'm sure not everyone will.
 
Frisco said:
Outside of search and advertising Google stinks!
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Honestly, took the damn sentiment right out of my mouth. They have yet to show market power in any other domain. Google is without a doubt the ANTITHESIS of a product company (that's MS). Android will be the closest thing they get to a product and I don't think they have the structure for it and they are snubbing open source developers who want to help so they aren't making it any easier. I will be so very surprised if Google succeeds here. This is not their "thing" and it will take a lot of work and restructuring for them to be good at it.
 
Hmm that video was annoying and the breathing, he needs to see a Dr. Thats not normal. Anyway if thats probably beta and they have till Nov to work out the kinks? Will they make it?
 
Is it my imagination or are there several instances in this video where he has to repeat his finger motions because the touch screen isn't responding?

Gee, that wouldn't be annoying, not at all. :rolleyes:
 
Dunno why nobody else seems to have noticed this - maybe I imagining it ...

Darth seems to have to take about 5 shots at everything he clicks on the touch screen before it works.

I recently moved from the HTC Touch Dual (good phone, but similar unresponsive touchscreen issues) to the iPhone, and for me, I could never see myself going back. The Android would have to be truly exceptional to beat the iPhone IMHO.

EDIT: darn, you beat me to that by 1 minute!
 
wonderbread57 said:
Yeah but imagine turn-by-turn directions utilizing the compass and possibly incorporating street-view. Very cool.

However, T-mobile is a pretty lack luster provider of broadband wireless. If you think ATT's 3G is shotty, T-mobile's is years behind that.
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Ah, true. I didn't think about the integration with streetview and compass. I guess Google's only problem with streetview in GPS integration will be adding more cities to the handful they have available. I know I wouldn't be able to use it where I live. :(
 
Frisco said:
Outside of search and advertising Google stinks!
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Oh fer god's sake. That's like saying, "Outside of hardware and software Apple stinks!"

The problem with your statement is that search and advertising encompass a lot of areas for turning a profit, and Google is so freakin' good at both that they are light-years ahead of everyone else. And if you haven't noticed, online advertising is a ridiculously lucrative place to be right now.

Edit: starseed6, I cut in line in front of you. :p
 
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