The phone, I think is nice uses Pros: TI's 3430 processor removable battery slide out qwerty keyboard 8gb, wi-fi (too bad no wireless -n) 3.1" inch touchscreen display volume control 3.0 mp cam w/led flash speaker and usb mass storage slot (expand the amount of memory) and 3.5 mm headphone jack Con: no on-screen keyboard.. <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/VoWm_VxELOk&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/VoWm_VxELOk&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
I'm an iPhone fan boy, and of all the phones that have been deemed 'iPhone killers' this one has to be the only legit one. It has great features and it looks great. I would never buy it because I can't type on those little keys, but that keyboard should win over a lot of people.
LOL ... everybody who has actually had a chance to see it says it is absolutely gorgeous and slick. Took someone long enough to make this thread. This phone, if it comes out as advertised indeed, is everything the iPhone is and everything it isn't. Unlike the iPhone which uses a hacked/downsized version of OS X, this Phone uses a Linux-based OS that was built from the ground up to work with a wireless device. Talk about ingenuity -- it will source your contacts information from Outlook, Google, Facebook, wherever ... and automatically integrate them. Look up someone. You want to email, call, post on their Facebook profile? Your choice. Multitasking -- run 20 apps at the same time if you want to. And it's fast enough to handle them all. Flip through running applications like a card deck. Notifications pop-up in a bar at the bottom of the screen so you can respond to them without having to leave what you're doing. You can launch any app from anywhere ... no more of this "close what you're doing, go back to the home/launcher page" BS. You just make a gesture and the launcher bar thingamajig slides in a bar across your screen. I want this phone yesterday. Wireless charging? Sexy. And to the OP: having a real keyboard is a *huge* PRO, not a con. On screen keyboards suck.
Yes it has GPS with turn-by-turn directions. And yes, it has Stereo bluetooth. All those features you're thinking of, it has them. It also has a real 3.5mm headphone jack so you can use any headphone you want.
I think it will be at&t, I read that the gps is provided by navigator which I believe is the app that att provides.
Aww looks like Sprint will be the carrier of this phone Whoever say's it looks ugly I have no idea what you were thinking.. To me it looks great and I love the QWERTY pull out keyboard... Have you tried to type on an iphone.. Blah.. I love my Blackberry but also wanted a touchscreen. I have ATT so hopefully there will be a unlock hack when the phone does come out.. I don't like sprint at all.
Oh man! Then *sniff* I think i have found my new phone . THANKS FOR THE INFO!! EDIT: SPRINT!!!!! #$@#!!%$%!
no on-screen keyboard is a con? to me on screen keyboards are annoying, I'd take an actual qwerty keyboard anyday btw, the keyboard looks like their Centros which I think is horrible
Sprint is CDMA while AT&T is GSM. They are not at all compatible so you will not be able to unlock a Sprint phone to work on an AT&T network.
Sprint, strike 1 now strike 2 only redeeming quality is of the palm pre, is well... the quality of the palm pre... but i doubt many will jump ship to sprint for this though
Pretty much my biggest problem with it. I will not purchase a sliding phone. The lack of an onscreen keyboard is actually an issue when browsing the web in the side view. If you want to type in a new address you'll have to turn to the side to type. Outside of that, the phone seems cool and I'd kill to have that multi-tasking feature. It's partly why I'm having trouble getting into the games on the iphone. One call and I lose everything I'm doing.
