Friday October 17, 2008
The AW sent me a pointer to this article from the San Jose Mercury News published on 16Oct2008 that gave a fair assessment of the upcoming Google phone. See: Here's a quote: Unfortunately, video and song playback is hampered by a major hardware shortcoming: the G1 eschews a standard headphone jack in favor of an included but uncomfortable earbud headset, which plugs into the mini USB port that is also used to charge the phone. This poses several problems...Better wait for 2.0. Or get a BlackBerry Storm. The Storm has Java ME technology and is already mature. Nothing wrong with that! |
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Even better is an HTC Diamond Touch - has Windows Mobile 6.1, Java ME, Audio, Video and Touch interface - the best of all worlds.
Posted by Beve Sallmer on October 17, 2008 at 11:11 PM PDT #
It's new and needs improvement.
Will do better in the next version.
Posted by Sam on October 18, 2008 at 12:36 AM PDT #
Overreaching with the graphic? You are blaming Android for a shortcoming of HTC hardware. You must think your readers are idiots.
Posted by scott on October 18, 2008 at 01:55 AM PDT #
Calling the G1 the "Google Phone" is as stupid as calling a random phone running Windows Mobile the "Microsoft Phone". Please do some research before posting, Hinkmond.
Posted by x on October 18, 2008 at 07:34 AM PDT #
Now the excuses begin. Sigh... "It's not our fault, we do software" and "It's not our phone, we do Web indexing".
Makes you wonder what anyone takes responsibility for nowadays anyway, doesn't it?
Hinkmond
Posted by Hinkmond Wong on October 18, 2008 at 12:47 PM PDT #
Take that - http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Google-Open-Sources-Android-on-Eve-of-G1-Launch/
Posted by Willy Wonka on October 21, 2008 at 07:48 AM PDT #
Uh-oh. Google Android must be really desperate for more people to port their platform to other phones now that they finally open sourced their code.
:-)
Hinkmond
Posted by Hinkmond Wong on October 21, 2008 at 10:52 AM PDT #
Well, yes, just like Sun is very eager to see as much adoption for J2ME as possible, what's your point?
At least, Android is free (as in "no licensing fees") and open source. And considering Sun's stock price and the impending lay offs, the J2ME licensing doesn't seem to be a moneymaker for Sun.
Posted by Will on October 23, 2008 at 06:09 PM PDT #
Why all the hatin'? Don't hate the player, hate the game. :-)
Hinkmond
Posted by Hinkmond Wong on October 23, 2008 at 08:59 PM PDT #