I'll second that. This Android thingy actually looks outdated rather than innovative. Besides, Linux smartphones have been around for some time already and they never really take off. When people buy phones, most could care less about whether it's open source or not.
If it's anything at all like that developer says it is in the video over here http://code.google.com/android/ then another significant boom is that it's really pleasant to develop for. Sounds cool. I guess someone will very soon compile it and run it on an iPhone and see how it plays there. Then it could really be benchmarked to Mac OSX mobile that right now looks like it's significantly faster judging by the videos.
The Triumph proved to be one of the better looking and performing pre-paid handsets we'd had the pleasure of holding in our sweaty mitts, but we had one major hangup: the name.
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Sorry, I'll keep my iPhone for now.
Of course you will.
You're in a two year contract.
Remember?
I'll second that. This Android thingy actually looks outdated rather than innovative.
Besides, Linux smartphones have been around for some time already and they never really take off. When people buy phones, most could care less about whether it's open source or not.
Since I paid $500 for my phone, a $200 fee to get out of it is no big deal at all.
@Guzzie,
Contract? What contract? Oh you mean my T-Mobile contract?
@Guzzle
Fail...
If it's anything at all like that developer says it is in the video over here http://code.google.com/android/ then another significant boom is that it's really pleasant to develop for. Sounds cool. I guess someone will very soon compile it and run it on an iPhone and see how it plays there. Then it could really be benchmarked to Mac OSX mobile that right now looks like it's significantly faster judging by the videos.
@Andreas- Are you kidding? Watch this YouTube video and watch how the browser lags as it is scrolled when it is demoed on the "advanced prototype":
http://www.youtube.com/androiddevelopers
It lags because in contrary to the iPhone it loads the whole page, not a snapshot of it and I also think that that proto cpu isn't really fast....