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(Unverified)Oct 22nd 2008 5:00PM
What we want to know... is this the iPhone killer? Not for the masses, but for us who liked the iPhone was it really was.. an awesome gadget. Because having a phone for more than a year; it doesn't feel right ^^
(Unverified)Oct 22nd 2008 5:04PM
My take? It is too soon to tell right now -- we'll have to see how the software evolves. I don't want to get into hardware too much (that isn't our beat), but the one major annoyance is having to switch between modes to type on the phone vs. portrait surfing a la the iPhone. Apparently a on-screen keyboard is already being developed by some hackers with ingenuity, so that might take care of the biggest issue.
As a gadget, the camera is better (though it is slow and horrible in low light, so it isn't that much better), it plays more types of media and has better battery life (from what tests I've seen, I don't have an iPhone 3G to compare). The market for really geeky third party apps is probably higher here than on the iPhone, but I don't know how long that is going to take.
ronin691Oct 22nd 2008 5:27PM
Oh man please don't start that whole "iPhone killer" thread all over again.
Apple users are fanatical, loyal people, it's a whole lifestyle. Zero people will switch from iPhone to G1, just like iPod user never switch to any other PMP even when the alternative is a superior, lower cost, technology.
Android, the Open Source operating system is an order of a magnitude more than a "phone". T-Mobile's forked, proprietary version of it is just a single example of the OS/platform/ecosystem than can be used in any computational device.
Apps you write for the G1 can be used in: Any other Android phone, future TV set top boxes, cars, remote sensors, industrial robots, on and on - something never to be achieved by the iPhone.
(Unverified)Oct 22nd 2008 5:50PM
Ah, but Todd, this isn't about Apple users, but simply about people aware of technology, wanting the very best. If Apple's the best, fine with me... right now, the iPhone is (as a phone).
I just want the Android/G1 impressing me; pushing the envelope, just like the iPhone did. It helps the (true) state of technology go forward, ... ?