T-Mobile Pulse runs Android, headed for Europe
By Paul Miller 
posted September 3rd 2009 10:33AM
posted September 3rd 2009 10:33AM
[Via Engadget German]
posted September 3rd 2009 10:33AM
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Oh look, another jab against Nokia. Getting awfully tired, Engadget.
Aw poor baby
True, Engadget hates Nokia and is out to get them, but they deserve it all the same.
Iphone 3GS thickness: 12.3mm
This phone: 13.5mm
Verdict: almost as "beastly" as the Nokia X6.
In other news, Paul Miller is set to stop by Huawei's offices later this afternoon to discuss kickback proposals.
Hey, maybe that 1.2mm makes a big difference in his emo girls-jeans.
Must not make a penis joke. Must not make a penis joke. Must not make a penis joke.
What you forgot to mention is that it'll be 250 euros unlocked without contract...
And 13.5mm is beastly? What the hell have you been smoking man?
I guess the only remotely unique thing about the iphone is that it is "thin and shiny".
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/01/developers-be-warned-apple-has-apparently-trademarked-those-shiny-chat-bubbles/
It's good to see a lot of different Android devices, from a lot of different vendors, finally hitting the market.
Re. the Pulse, I don't know about the build quality, but for what might be considered a low-to-mid-level Android smartphone, it looks quite good.
@Mark Haven't you heard, skinny jeans are out of style again. Much like your jokes.
Hi, it's generally considered good form to reply to the post your commenting on directly.
Just so you know.
Oh, we have a comedian amongst us.
Why don't you send that message to Engadget cause I did reply to the correct message.
what processor is it running?
hmm it seems like its gonna be an HTC competitor
Standard 528Mhz Qualcomm job.
i hope this comes to the UK!
looks better than Sprint's Hero
It's priced at just under £180 on pay as you go T-mobile in October. See T-mobile Twitter page. JC.
Here's a link:
http://twitter.com/TMobileOfficial
battery life suggests that it's definitely going to go for the low end of the Android spectrum, but it already looks way better than other upcoming Android cheapos like the HTC Click (2.8 inch screen, I think). Fuck it, at 250EUR/USD, I can just buy this and a spare battery and be good to go. Thank god they included a 3.5mm jack.
Actually it has a 2.5mm jack with adapter included:(
Other than that and no camera flash, it looks quite good.
Does anyone aside from Chris know anything at all about Eurotech? It's embarrassing that the man they entrusted the Windows 7 review to doesn't know this will be on PAYG at sub £200.
And 14mm is beastly? Yeah funny how you don't take some other phones' height and width into account isn't it?
on the design front.. in my opinion all they had to do was remove the chin (which they did) and NOT make it curvy.
This is confusing. You say it's available on a 5 Euro contract (IIRC no such thing exists on T-Mobile Germany). The German Engadget reports that it is available for 5 Euro with the Combo Flat S contract, but that one is 45 Euro a month. On a similar priced contract you get the iPhone 3G 8 GB for 1 Euro, the 3GS 16 GB for 100 Euro. And on the same Engadget German page they quote something in English, which is pretty much what the international Engadget (5 Euro per month) said. Huh? Also, the T-Mobile twitter account someone posted here said it has a 3,5" display.
the black on black looks good. best looking android phone i've seen so far. I'd consider buying this, the others not so much. That is if i didn't like the Pre better. Nokia still makes phones?
More pictures and news can be found here:
http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/26810/t-mobile-pulse-photo-gallery
Phone looks freaking awesome but whats up with the 3.5hr talk time??? Short battery life always an issue.
I'm hesitant about the idea of combining the Back and Home functions into a single button. I'm assuming that you go Back with a click and Home with a long press, but that ignores the fact that Back and Home already had dedicated long press features.
The back button isn't such a big deal, since it doesn't have a global long press function (it does pull up the browser history in the web browser, like long pressing the back button in your desktop browser) and in most cases its functionality is available elsewhere in a menu.
But the Home button has an extremely important long press feature that, to my knowledge, can't be accessed any other way. It pulls up a list of the last six programs used (it's sort of like alt-tabbing in Windows) from any screen, and in my opinion is absolutely critical to being able to use the OS effectively. Sure, you can go back to the home screen every time you want to switch between applications, but it would be extremely cumbersome in comparison and I definitely wouldn't want to give it up.
What they should really do is separate that feature out into its own dedicated button so you don't have to wait one second for it to pop up, that's how important it is.
Have any of you notice that Engadget seems to have some negative sentiment towards Android or is it just me??
Paul Miller, grow up or shut up.