Entries Tagged as 'gphone'
Google’s Android Market (v. App Store)
It’s all over reader this morning, but Google’s provided a few more details on its Android Market - their App Store competitor. So first off, I’m generally skeptical of Google’s push into mobile telephony - I dearly hope they succeed, but I’m not sure that they will.
But Android Market is genuinely interesting. They’ve gone [...]
Who’s planning on getting an Android phone?
So the news hit the tubes yesterday all day about the updated Android SDK in preparation for the big T-mobile Android/HTC Dream release. I hope it’s all true!
Here’s the thing, literally everyone I know who could possibly have been persuaded to get a smartphone already bought an iPhone. Except for folks who have to have [...]
Google Android delayed. Probably. So what?
A rumor came out yesterday that the first Android phone might get delayed. Apparently HTC is having some problems cramming all the features that the G wants in the phone and now they’re trying to get some kind of minimum revenue assurance from Google. Ok, you all know I’m a big Android skeptic, I just [...]
iPhones, gPhones, RIMs, Treos and Open Mokos, oh my!
Man. Stuff is happening in the smart phone world! Seriously, if you don’t believe that the iPhone is having a huge effect on the world. Well. I don’t know where you’ve been.
iPhone 3G (the hardware) and iPhone 2.0 (the software, confusing! I know!) are raging successes. Apple’s sold 1 million phones and had 10 million [...]
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Android, hope and skepticism
So I finally finished reading that massive Wired piece on Android. Which, more or less, was filled with a lot of not that much actual information or insight, but with a lot of rah, rah, Google Android’s the shiz niiiit. Still it got my brain monkeys running around.
Ultimately, I remain skeptical that Android will be [...]
Symbian going Open Source, is it enough?
Well it looks like Nokia’s trying to get in on the smartphone party. Which is odd, to some degree, seeing as how by almost any measure Nokia or at least Symbian is the smartphone party. But it seems that there’s some writing on the wall and Nokia has read it. To that end it is [...]
Oh, Google Android.
Just a quick note - in my absence, Google seems to have had a conference in which they talked about Android. Now, I’m reasonably skeptical about Android, but it seems to be coming along well - so I hope that I’m wrong about this and it makes as big a splash as some folks think [...]
Google shows off Android alpha
So you know I’m an Android skeptic. I’d love to see it, I just have doubts that a huge coalition, including the carriers, could pull it off if they wanted to and suspect that the carriers are less interested in most in having this succeed. But who knows… stranger things have happened.
There was a video [...]
You know why I love the iPhone?
It’s not because it’s the greatest single device I’ve owned (rivaling my love for the 650 when I first got that bad boy). It is because of what it’s done to the market. Competition is good. Think back…. waaay back… to a time before there was an iPhone, let’s say a year ago. Remember what [...]
Google, Dell and the gPhone
So the latest scuttlebutt is that Google and Dell are getting together and bashing out the first Android phone. Turns out to have been just that - a rumor.
Nevertheless I think there’re interesting reasons why this could be a real thing - perhaps something that’s in the works that isn’t ready for announcing time.
1) Google [...]
