“Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile USA will be the first carrier to offer a mobile phone based on Google Inc’s Android software, the New York Times reported, citing people briefed on the company’s plans,” Reuters reports.
“The phone is expected to go on sale in the U.S. before Christmas and perhaps as early as October, the paper said,” Reuters reports.
Full article here.
Dan Frommer reports for Silicon Alley Insider, “Someone who’s actually seen the gadget… tells us that both the hardware (from handset-maker HTC) and Google’s Android software suffer from a similar problem: They’re technically powerful but not as elegant as Apple’s iPhone and OS X.”
Frommer reports, “Specifically, the phone — apparently a hot item to show off in Google’s cafeterias these days — is big and bulky, and not as sleek as the iPhone. And Android, while extremely powerful, has a less-elegant, less-user-friendly interface than the iPhone.”
Full article, with photo of the device, here.
TmoNews.com offers a video of the device in action via YouTube:
Direct link via YouTube here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers too numerous to mention for the heads up.]
“Google Android phone; ‘big and bulky'”
Is it Darth Vader using the phone?
i think that Android is a good idea. it will bring a “real mobile” device to the masses. For those people that cannot get an iphone, or dont want one, Android will be a good choice.
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could do without the sound track –
We’ve got a breather.
I think he was frantically searching for the digital asthma inhaler function. Pretty mean joke.
The out of focus crappy Video that started floating around on Tuesday.
Where’s the dancing bears, bring out the dancing bears!!!!
“For those people that cannot get an iphone, or dont want one, Android will be a good choice.”
Steve Jobs, however, plans to knock down every barrier between the people who can’t/won’t get an iPhone and the device itself. Price, size, various shapes and functions as the lineup expands. That’s exactly what he did (and continues to do) with the iPod.
So if Android goes after those customers first then that’s bad news for Apple.
There seems to be a chorus of Apple fans who don’t want this battle to be between the iPhone and Android but Android and Windows Mobile instead. That doesn’t make any sense. T-Mobile and Google want to eat into those holiday season iPhone sales just like everybody else with the phone you see in that video. Google has gone from friend to enemy.
“People who choose that cheezy looking thing over the iPhone ……. deserve it.”
Sadly, for some it’s gouda ’nuff.
If it’s not user-friendly, it’s not powerful.
that video is blurrier and lower res than the last video I saw of bigfoot.
this is fucking 2008, you’d think it would be possible to film with something better quality than a webcam from 1997.
I love that it takes him no less that three touches to makes something actually go…
I also like how the screen blacks out when it switches from portrait to landscape. Elegant!
Linux on the phone will be as streamlined, simple and easy to use as Linux on the desktop.
“you’d think it would be possible to film with something better quality than a webcam from 1997.”
Maybe he couldn’t clean off the personal stains from the lens.
“Linux on the phone will be as streamlined, simple and easy to use as Linux on the desktop.”
but will i have to recompile to install some apps?
It’s not that Android will be “good enough” for some consumers. It’s that Apple’s marriage to AT&T;in the U.S. market means there are millions of us who can’t buy it even if we want to because of poor or no reception.
God I want an iPhone. Instead, I’ve got a Razr. One thing I won’t do is settle for a bad smartphone. If Android is worthy, I’ll probably bite . . . so long as it’s fully Mac compatible.
That thing lost me when he popped out the keyboard.
damn mouth breathers
They want it to take the cake, but all it’s going to do is cut the cheese.
“Join me, Luke. Take this Android, and together, we will overthrow The Steve and bring order to the universe. It is your destiny!”
“Nooooo! I’ll never use that piece of crap!”
I’m looking forward to seeing the Android based phones out in the publics. I want to see what interesting apps are made for it.
MDN, that headline doesn’t make sense. Of course it is no iPhone. If it was, Google would be sued!
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I hope both Apple & Google control the main mobile markets!
I can’t say that first impressions make this a compelling device. probably will be better by sale time but looks more of a threat to Windows Mobile and other devices than to iPhone at this stage of the game if that brief encounter is anything to go by.
I wonder if Eric Schmidt will give up his iPhone, for the Google Android phone?
He was given an iPhone, as he is on Apple’s board of directors. Do you think he will dump it for the G1?
I hope Google comes out with an exchange program by Android release date so I can trade-in my iPhone for one of these technical marvels!
Give me a break!!!!!
How fat is the guy in this video that he has to breath like that?
Jesus Christ man, give your heart a chance and go running once in a while.