chapperzUK
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http://www.google.com/phone
Looks very nice. Will come down in price when Vodafone release it.
What are your thoughts?
Looks very nice. Will come down in price when Vodafone release it.
What are your thoughts?
Its available on T-Mobile at the moment. Will be available on Vodafone in the spring (along with an american provider). You can also buy the handset unlocked (available on all networks except AT&T).
Not on TMObile ion the UK is it?
Anyone else think its a bit ironic that they have called it "one phone" baring in mind what it will be challenging is the "iphone", i being one in Roman Numerals (for those that didn't know :)!!! So what we have is more or less two phones competing that are called the same!
However I am a huge admirer of Google and their approach at development (for those that haven't used Google Chrome yet, TRY IT!!!), so I shall be intrigued to here what real people think of it when they use it, as opposed to tech people that will think it is amazing, because they developed it!
On a slightly different subject, I am more looking forward to Google OS!!!
Sorry to burst your bubble but it is called the "Nexus One". I've been reading a few blogs and they say that it has everything that will make it beat the iPhone ON PAPER. The iPhone is an amazing gadget but, from what I have heard, not a good phone. Lets hope that Google have created an amazing gadget AND phone in one.
Oops, may bad! I must have read quite an old article on this a while ago where it was called that. May have to read the new ones and catch up on it.
Yeah I am hoping that this is actually a phone first and a gadget second, which is where the iphone falls down, because it is just essentially an ipod with the ability to text and call people. Where google are so good is they start from scratch with a clean mind as to what a certain piece of technology should offer and they are very good at listening to people and implementing ideas that crop up a lot, rather than Microsoft who get an idea from 0.5% of there users and think that everyone wants it! And yes i know Microsoft don't make ipod's, i just don't like Microsoft!
Exactly! I was playing with my mates iPhone and I was like "Wow this is amazing" then someone called and I saw him get so frustrated with it. The virtual keyboard is so annoying as you need fingers of a 4 year old to hit the correct key. Google have made it so that it recognises speech very well (this was actually tested and released on the iPhone as an app by Google ...... :)) which means that you can listen to a speech and not listen!
Yeah I have heard about this speech thing that Google have been developing. Apparently they were told it would never work because you would have to account for so many different accents from around the World, but from what I have heard they are doing very well with it and are already looking to take it further, ie Voice command operating systems, although this is apparently some way off. Also as i mentioned previously if you haven't heard anything about the operating system they are currently developing, you should check it out! They are currently unhappy because it takes 6 seconds from pushing the button to turn it on to being ready to use!!! They want it faster,
Back on the phone subject though, when the iphone was released I wasn't interested at all. The fact i bought an ipod touch didn't help, but this phone is actually make me think, mmm I might get one of those. Might wait for the price to drop though, and for it not to be on Voda!
Where google are so good is they start from scratch with a clean mind as to what a certain piece of technology should offer and they are very good at listening to people and implementing ideas that crop up a lot,
I have a Google Android phone and it is fantastic.
Most of the software developers I work with own an iPhone and they all moan about them.
speech recognition for all apps, better camera, video and application multitasking are the ones that caught my eye
a portable marketing tool where users are bombarded with personalised adverts?
I actually prefer personalised ads. At least some are relevant!