Android rap shows the G1 love, gives Google some street cred
By Darren Murph 
posted Oct 21st 2008 12:04AM
posted Oct 21st 2008 12:04AM
[Via Phandroid, thanks Rob]
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hey guys sorry for the irrelevance but how do you change your avatar? i can't find the login thing on my profile. thanks.
Honestly, I don't know for you. Clicking on your name says 'no profile found'.
HE'S DWARKSIDED!
You probably need to email the staff and confirm that it's you, that way you'll become a returning user rather than a new reader.
i've been commenting for a long while not just recently so...yeah...
Fo' Shizzle
so far excellent phone.. too bad not many aps in the market. One of the reasons I bought early was due to free apps in the begining to save a bit of cash.
snap!
Ahhhh, I'm totally posting from my new G1. On the 20th!!!
same here.
and damn the keyboard sucks. i'm returning mine tomorrow before they're even officially released.
worst. keyboard. ever.
Care to explain why the keyboard is so bad?
At least there's a 'b' button.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/20/apples-new-macbook-is-mm-mm-goo/
the buttons are nearly flush with the backplate, they have no discernable "click" when pressed, and if you have small thumbs like i, it's difficult to reach some buttons due to the "chin".
and if you try to stretch it too much, you'll inadvertantly rub the trackball which then moves the highlighted textbox, forcing you to start all over again in some cases.
the OS is very nice, tho it could use just a little bit of polish to be truly "consumer friendly", but for anyone used to WinMo, you'll make the transition really, really easily. the browser is also, dare i say it, as good if not better than the iPhone browser, if only because it's aided by hardware keys to navigate instead of 1/4 chiclet sized icons.
i wish HTC had used a keyboard more like their previous offerings rather than this sidekick ripoff. this device could/should have been so much more, IMO.
one more thing... T-Mobile's 3g data network is quite snappy!
i love the OS, and i enjoy the upper 4/5's of the handset. if they had lost the "chin", the keyboard would be a bit more tolerable as is... it really should have been "chinless", with the send and end keys integrated into the dialer, with just 3 hardware buttons along the bottom frame of the screen for home, back, and menu.
because other than a second way to open the dialer, the send key is useless. the end key is even more useless as all it does is turn off the screen.
Rap? Yes. Google street cred? No.
Yeah and what's with the dying whale in the background the whole song?
Oh snap!
(que many more poorly realized imitations of hip-hop dialect in 3, 2...)
Sadly, that was actually the best 3 minutes and 56 seconds of my life today.
I agree. It was the best clip I've seen all day in my life.
i played a hour long 60 person online split screen resistance 2 beta today(153 for 26 oh yea) and this comes second to that
Oh, seems I kind of misread your comment.
My b.
This was the best part of this second of this minute of this hour of this day of this week of this month of this year of this life.
Oh please,
at $199 the iPhone is a steal,
I kicked the G1 with my heel
G1 is just an immitator,
iPhone's the true innovator,
iPhone' got the chrome,
G1 go home!
uhg, I just lost a few brain cells typing that...
Fuck off.
OH MY GOD
RACE TO LOW RANK iEYE IS GOOOOOOO
You mean Google has Chrome.
and i thought you didnt have any brain cells to lose...
wooo hooooo!
iEye goes "Aye Aye"... for Apple...! :-P
as much as i hate iEye thats the best thing hes posted yet. creative
I seriously think he's a glutton for punishment. He must get off on being low-ranked.
Not to mention his "rapping" straight blooows. I hear better rhymes from kindergartners.
i hear better rimes from flashpoint... its still better than soldier boy
@ collegekid13
Are you fucking KIDDING ME?!
You seriously think that's CREATIVE?!
You must attend a clown college.
Clown College? You can't eat that.
That advertisement had no effect on me whatsoever.
ughhhhh Can someone ban iEye already???
Sadly that is actually the most thought he has put in to a comment out of all of his other comments... Makes you weep doesn't it?
Just in case no one picked it up... I was being sarcastic........... geez! :-P
Posting from my g1 2 days early hell yes
I feel so black now.
Don't worry, white should be available by December 25th.
OMG ZIIING!
Actually I thought that was pretty GD good for a fan rap. Hail to the android forum dude. Especially for the Android Bot's voice with a Midwestern accent.
If Miss Muffy and the Muffin Mob ever went corporate ... and stopped swearing, they would have written this rhyme.
that was dope!
3:57 well spent.
The G1 looks to me like a 3rd gen ipod photo with an FM tuner clamped on the bottom.... nice idea just a little short on the R/D for the actual phone. Turns off the ringer in the theater though, thats neat
Haha! I love the crack at Palin's yahoo account! lol. (^_^)
Totally gay. And I bet it's built to last about three months.
God, middle schoolers again."That's gay, you're gay, this class is gay, gay gay gay." And any real mafia or 'ndragheta associate/don would have more respect than you :p
Liked the rap.
Like the phone a lot too, won't be available in my area due to lack of T-Mob 3G. Oh well, guess I'm going iPhone :-/
I got my G1 yesterday and its amazing. The iPhone is sexy and all, but besides that, does anyone really have any valid reasons why it's 'better' than the G1? (keeping in mind that the small keyboard is better than an onscreen keyboard)