[Another iPhone Killer] Google Nexus One (Android OS)

phew..I thought you where going to say something about Windows mobile...nv :grin:

 

Any competitor can basically take what Apple did with the iphone and improve upon it. So can Apple. hence, the 4G that should come out later in 2010. Apple was the one who revolutionizes the product in the first place, though, so will keep market share.

 

I have owned in the past year: G1, iPhone 3G, and now a myTouch 3G. All in all the iPhone was far the best, but money talks and I wanted to cut my phone bills down in the short term.

I am completely disinterested in Android. It is a fragmented distribution of OS versions, and the touch keyboard of the myTouch is frustratingly laggy. Coupled with the poor task manager in the Android, the operating system does not feel polished.

I want to try the N900 but it is such an investment for a phone. I looked into the E72, but it does not support T-Mobile US 3G.

I hate cell phones. They're like the male version of shoes.

 

That's funny.

I used to be a gadget freak but it seems like conspicuous consumption to me. I can see why people want them. I would have loved something like this in my previous incarnation as a Unix admin, but only because it would have made the leash a lot longer, and given me more liberty with time away from The Cubicle. But it's still a leash. As a civilian the idea of having that much availability to the world 24/7 (broadcasting my location via GPA for example) scares the crap out of me.

I take my laptop with me everywhere I go anyway, so it seems pointless to have a phone that's anything more than a phone. I also walk outside public places to have what few conversations I do have on my phone. I guess I'm just old

 

ehh nm

 

'It could be the end of the world, when Google becomes self-aware, or 2010. You decide." - techcrunch.com

 

haha nice

 

I just computed it, it's counting seconds till the New Year. Sorry.

 

haha i just tried it, i guess you're right

 

Try the Palm Pre. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. It doesn't have the vast app selection of the iPhone, but it probably has the best smartphone OS in existence.

 

Why are there so few apps for the Pre? This thing has been out for months but the selection is still so limited. Whats the story there?

 

It actually took a while before they finally released the app store in commercial form and got their developer program off the ground. Paid apps only started appearing about a couple of months ago. There has been a steady stream of new apps since then and it's growing quickly, but for a while there was only a limited selection of free apps that were available. What helped Palm was the fact that they made the platform and OS wide open, so even in the absence of an app store, there was an active homebrew developer community right from the get go with lots of apps being written. Many of those apps are now "graduating" to the official app store. But it will take a little while before Palm's app catalog becomes comparable to Android market as far as selection goes.

Also the Pre's graphics capability is still relatively limited (at least compared to the iPhone), and actually the phone's graphics chip isn't being utilized at all. Palm is supposedly working on future OS updates that will enable advanced graphics/3D capability and make it possible to develop high end games for the Pre like you have on the iPhone/iPod OS.

 

If I were working for a competing phone company, and we wanted to make an "iPhone killer", the first thing I would do is find out every big and little thing that is good about the iPhone, and at the bare minimum I would make my phone the same as it. There would be nothing that the iPhone does that my phone does. That's the first step. The second step would be adding functionality that is better than the iPhone's, this step is important, but not as important as step 1.

My "iPhone killer" would:

Feature Android(instant access to apps, solid OS)
Touch screen MORE responsive than the iPhone's, higher resolution, brighter colors.
Faster processor
Multi-touch throughout with support within apps
removable battery
slimmer/smaller than iPhone(no keyboard)
Native music/media player(android one sucks)
Hardware wise it HAS to look sexy and sleek.

 

reading that the nexus one doesnt have multi touch. i havent had a touch screen phone before, what exactly does multi touch allow/do?

 

Just everything.

 

The most important thing is the ability to pinch to zoom, which is a great feature for web browsing, looking at photos, or being in a maps application.

 

ahh ok. is that something that can be applied through an update in the phone? seems like people are pretty down that it is being said it doesnt have that

 

fwiw, i have a coworker who has a G1 and all he does is homebrew his device and of course had it rooted. He installed the Android 2.1 and let me say, it was smooth as hell on a G1, can't imagine how it will be on a Nexus device itself.

I have to admit, even as a Droid owner, I am jealous of this phone, I just hope it boosts the popularity of the Android OS, is the best thing out there for device, hands down, minus the Exchange/BES access that Blackberry still #1 at with PDA/Smartphones.

 

Linux revolutionized the PC but did it keep the market share?

 

Contrary to popular belief, Linux was never designed to be a mainstream desktop OS. Most fans of Linux did hope that it would eventually make a serious dent in the Microsoft desktop hegemony, but "revolutionizing the PC" was not the reason it was written in the first place. Linux was written to be a free, open source and extremely flexible/scalable alternative to commercial UNIX. In that role, it has been an unqualified success, and today it runs on everything from cellphones and broadband routers to massive mainframes. At some point CTOs started realizing that instead of spending tons of $$$ on big expensive mainframes and paying out even more $$$ to license and support UNIX, they could just buy cheap low-end servers and slap Linux on them and get the same performance. It is big iron UNIX products like Solaris and HP/UX, VMS and embedded OSes like WinCE/Windows Mobile etc. that have lost market share to Linux, not Windows on the desktop.