http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/ Engadget Comments for False alarm: Android-powered phones are coming in 2008 http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/gPhone '08 for President.]]>Jun 2nd 2008 7:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/Jun 2nd 2008 8:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/Jun 2nd 2008 8:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/
Happily texting away on my 3G RAZR V3xx.]]>Jun 2nd 2008 8:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/I agree with you. For those of us that have been following Android's development, especially over the past year, Android's arrival really does herald the end to the proprietary phone wars.

Clearly the Razr broke new ground with its design. But its UI really was not good (at all). The HTC touch then marked the start of a new phone revolution. Apple then blatently copied the Touch, (hardly innovation)

Android really presents the sky as the limit.

Clearly this is the end of the Apple phone and may mark the end of Apple itself. With a better phone, a UI that is not defined by anyone, applications galore, Apple will not be able to compete.

(and now with the next portable computer battefield, namely the netbook, having been set with Apple not in sight, this leaves Apple trying to keep alive by creating over the air back-up utilities, desperately).

The end of Apple. Which I personally think is a pity. Clearly they never really made a dent on real computer companies like HP and Dell, but I made a lot of money out of Apple. But the short slippery slide is a foot.

I will still walk in to Apple stores to listen to people complaining at the "Genius bar". (Now that's entertainment !)

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And maybe a little tweaking in the GUI here and there. And I've used the emulator and seen the previews - whichever phone arrives first with Android, give it good 3D capabilities for crying out loud.]]>Jun 2nd 2008 7:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/
*exits bomb shelter*]]>Jun 2nd 2008 7:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/Jun 2nd 2008 8:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/Jun 2nd 2008 7:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/Jun 2nd 2008 8:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/Jun 2nd 2008 8:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/Jun 2nd 2008 8:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/
But, I'm crossing my fingers for AT&T. =)]]>Jun 2nd 2008 8:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/
What do you mean? I highly doubt Apple has any say in what phones AT&T offers just because they gave them exclusive US iPhone rights. If so, and the T-Mobile hunch is true, it doesn't matter anyway because T-Mobile is GSM. Hence, someone can just buy an unlocked T-Mobile phone and use it with AT&T's network.]]>Jun 2nd 2008 8:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/Jun 2nd 2008 9:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/Jun 3rd 2008 12:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/Jun 2nd 2008 8:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/Jun 2nd 2008 11:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/Jun 2nd 2008 8:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/14/new-players-team-up-with-limo-foundation/) foundation, which is a contender to Android. So, it's very unlikely that VZW will carry an Android phone.]]>Jun 2nd 2008 8:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/Jun 2nd 2008 8:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/
how comes whatever topic the news is about it always comes down to iphone/ipod/iwhatevercrapappleisgoingtorealeseinthenext10years.. ?

Serioulsy ?

I came down with 2 theories but i cannot choose so please vote :
#1 : most of Apple research and devellopment team members actually spend their days on engadget and such. This way they can fulfill the second mission they've been given : more advertising (understand : more advertising than the one that is already provided by the HUGE Apple advertising team).

#2 There actually are Apple bootcamps in some remotes areas all over the U.S. where fanboys are slowly but surely brainwashed and trained to spread the words of The Steve !

Now please Apple, I know the second one is kinda hard to believe, that you are going to deny it, but you cannot tell me the first one is true can you ?]]>Jun 3rd 2008 2:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/Jun 2nd 2008 8:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/
I must ask this great question... Why hath not the "great Sony empire" failed? Sony actually just "stamps" their name on quite a few different brands of hardware (Ex: LG Brand), so with your logic, they should have been dead years ago.]]>Jun 2nd 2008 8:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/
It looks exactly like the Blackjack II; IDK if that's the real phone or it's photoshopped.]]>Jun 2nd 2008 8:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/Jun 2nd 2008 8:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/

mmkay?]]>Jun 2nd 2008 8:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/
Yeah, as a consumer that benefits from competition...I hate it and wish Google would not compete with other phone manufacturers, possibly causing them to be more competitive with their phones' prices and features. Google will be better off if they don't try this, and I want the best for them.

There should only be one phone. It should cost $200 a month per person with no discounts, and hopefully it will not have any unnecessary extra features like memory or a screen.

]]>Jun 2nd 2008 9:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/
Competition is great, and helps me as an iPhone owner (and Apple zealot). But leave it to the iPhone wanna-be's of the world, like HTC. They're increasingly successful at copying Apple. But Android? Please. It's like the Linux of mobile phones. The only people that want it are Apple haters and geeks.

So in your hatred of all things Apple, rest assured that yes, Android will be a flop, like Linux on the desktop, but it will continue to give you something to cling on to, although inside you really want an iPhone. You just can't tell your IT buddies that or you'd get ostracized.]]>Jun 2nd 2008 9:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/
Here is one thing I like that you don't...competition. It just doesn't make sense to be a "zealot" for a company that does things in its own best interest, not your own. If you want a piece of their success and to own part of the company, buy their stock.

You look silly when you act like competition is a bad thing. Whether or not Google succeeds, it can only benefit you as a consumer, not harm you. If Android becomes a real threat to the iphone...guess what? YOU the consumer benefits!

Apple is a great company. But...competition is better.

Now why do you want Google to fail again?]]>Jun 2nd 2008 9:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/
And when I say "Competition is great", that usually means someone LIKES something, or is in favor of it.

But really, who's saying Apple doesn't do things in my best interest? I mean, what company does? Ford? GE? Microsoft? GOOGLE? No. These are businesses that wouldn't exist if they didn't make money. Just so happens that Apple makes outstanding products, time and time again. And whaddya know, most of us love everything they make. Why? They 'get it'. Google, try as they may, 'doesn't'. ]]>Jun 2nd 2008 9:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/
You misinterpreted the "Apple is great...competition is better" part of my post. I meant competition in a general sense...as in competition as a concept is better than any single company no matter how great they are.

Once again, now I can see that you do appreciate competition but you chose Apple because you believe they have the best products. That is fine...that is not what I garnered from your first post however (and neither did phanbouy).

My other point was that no company does things for the consumer's best interest.

While I disagree that Google doesn't 'get it'...that is just one opinion against another. I agree that Apple makes great products...but because of their dominance in various areas...they NEED to have competition to stay accountable for their prices and quality. I think Google is a worthy competitor...but as far as phones go...this is all speculation.

I believe we are on the same page now, yes?]]>Jun 2nd 2008 10:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/Jun 2nd 2008 8:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/
"to announce Android-powered phones this year."

They announce phones months before releasing anything. I'm predicting first Android phone q1 2009. Probably the first with a full qwerty in q2.]]>Jun 2nd 2008 9:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/Jun 2nd 2008 9:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/
Im up for a new phone at the end of November...]]>Jun 2nd 2008 9:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/Jun 2nd 2008 9:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/Jun 2nd 2008 9:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/Jun 2nd 2008 10:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/
Thats just painful to view...

As for potential networks is it possible it could be on Sprint? After that I say AT&T or Verizon...since I plan on joining either one of those assuming Sprint has nothing good in terms of phones by end of this year.]]>Jun 2nd 2008 11:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/Jun 3rd 2008 4:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/
(and they PAY him for this!)]]>Jun 3rd 2008 5:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/Jun 3rd 2008 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/false-alarm-android-powered-phones-are-coming-in-2008/Jun 3rd 2008 8:07PM