GeeksPhone One in the wild, now packing a physical keyboard
By Ross Miller 
posted October 3rd 2009 10:01AM
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too bad you dont have one if you did you would know it sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
shame you're not as smart as your name suggests
DR House > all the other trolls in the world
How much you are getting paid by Apple ?? If you are not , then you are one big fool.
I thought the iPhone was amazing from commercials. Then I tried a family members iPhone. The reception = fail. I get full bars where I live on my AT&T phone, and I couldn't get even 2 bars with an iPhone. Sure, the iPhone is a great media player and other stuff, but what's a phone worth if it gets shi*ty service?
Ross,
You say "HTC Dream / Ion / MyTouch 3G". Do you mean the *Sapphire* / Ion / MyTouch instead of Dream? The Dream/G1 is much heavier and larger than the Sapphire / Ion / MyTouch. I know... it would be better if we didn't have carriers rebranding phones just so they can say "only on T-Mobile!"
Don't you mean Sapphire/Ion/*Magic*/MyTouch?
Ah, I'll bet you're right. I was totally confused by that comment since the Dream is roughly double the weight of the MyTouch. They really span the entire range of smartphone weight, with the Dream being among the heaviest and the MyTouch being among the lightest.
@Jamie - Wait till AT&T loses their monopoly on the iPhone.
In the UK, O2 just lost theirs and it's going to 2 additional carriers with better network coverage & data capacity.
I couldn't be bothered to wait and got myself an unlocked Hero to use on a decent network.
"The sliding keyboard like us també."
Google translation FTW!
That keyboard looks very kaiser-like :P
Tight phone
Will anyone seriously buy this phone. ?
The GeeksPhone blog states that the phone will have a 528 MHz CPU which seems a little anemic to me. I was hoping for at least 650 MHz if not 800. Anyways, the blog also says that the phone is quad-band GSM but operates on the 2100 HSPA band. I think AT&T is on 1900 right? That means that 3G wouldn't work on AT&T right? Aside from that, the phone seems to have some really nice kit in it. Good GPS chip at least. The Broadcom GPS chip in the iPhone is the biggest piece of crap ever. Makes GPS on the phone useless.
The keyboard looks way too similar to the Motorola Rival's! Check it out.
@Dr. House
What the F*%&ing hell are you people thinking?!
People keep REPEATING and REPEATING that the iPhone is not the best selling phone in Japan.
It was the best selling phone for 1 week, and then the title went back to the infinitely better DoCoMo SH-06A.
I would hate to see how my fat fingers would work for this, since the video on the Spanish site shows a stylus. :S and.. as far as performance.. I think its just a G1 with a nicer keyboard and audio port right?? ... wait.. I love my G1 haha
I'm all for competition. But seriously iPhone $49 in USA Does anyone seriously feel this will impact USA sales ? Or even iphne sales. ? I hate apple by the way.
I've owned 17 different cells on 5 carriers in 13 years. iPhone 3gs is by far gratest cell of all times. N I hate apple.
SHUT THE HELL UP
srry about that but seriously you have commented like about 5 times each time either insulting this phone, complimenting the phone or comparing it to the god damn iphone!!!! and every time you say "btw i hate apple" just like DR house did... you are seriously a troll wannabe just shut up!!!
To iPhone haters. So u r saying iPhone 3 gs sucks? Your comments are full of hate. iPhone highest customer satisfaction rate of all times. Check your facts. 340 million Americans have chosen iPhone to be the top dawg. It is standard by which phones are measured.
Also iPhone haters r u paid by
GeeksPhone One??
Lol!!!Pathetic. By the way I hate apple. But I don't allow hate to determine my technical facts N opinions.
The fact that OK is in the middle and not space makes me cringe.
@ truth
wow, last i heard there were a little bit more than 300 million Americans. I really doubt that 340 million Americans have an iphone because when i look around, i dont see everyone including infants with iphones. seriously man, check your facts!!!
oh, and by the way, I'm totally being payed by geeksphone one
Hey I have a G1, hey I made this post from it :) .
Anyway. Its good to see more android phones, I love mine and open source shit RULES!
lol at poor people who can not afford iphone and make pathetic excuses.
Damn, that's hawt
Looks Cool
iphone hate is a joke. the iphone is clearly the best smart phone on the market right now. anyone who doesn't believe that must be trying to make themselves feel better. like i said before, iphone hate is too much on this site, you guys really need to calm down.
NO I AM NOT AN APPLE FAN BOY, I AM INTELLIGENT, unlike the sublime hate from ignorant posters thats so visible to see through. you guys aren't kids anymore, well maybe some of you. reacher and look at the facts, the iphone takes the cake in every category. 1 million iphone 3GS sold in week 1, 2 billion apps downloaded. please, don't make yourselves look foolish.
P.S i love palm, but i'm intelligent and can admit a better product.
I'm sorry ,but no you're peddling your opinion that the iphone is best as fact and trying to affect a calm (I'm not a fanboy) attitude to try and appear impartial. I've had lots of first hand time with iphones and ipod touches from multiple generations and I can tell you that they are not the best thing going in smartphones at all.
What they do well is deliver an easy (highly limited and controlled) user experience with (at best) fair audio and video quality, fun apps and a good web experience. As someones first smartphone or pmp they seem insanely cool ,but the more you look around the more you'll find there are devices all over that deliver functionality the iphone/touch just can't.
The moment you want to do something outside the limited scope of what apple wants you to do with your device is the moment you're going to need something else than a ipod touch/iphone.
Don't think I hate them though, they provide a nice lite gaming, podcast, lite web browsing experience ,but those factors don't make it the best smartphone, not even close.
The iphone might have a great amount of apps but with limited amount of features [unless it's been jailbroken].
Saying the iphone is the "best" is only your opinion. If you are actually intelligent you would the iphone isn't a true smartphone.
@Uraha, define 'smartphone'.
@Uraha please define to me a real smartphone? even give me a couple phones that are better then a iphone 3gs, because refuse to think a textberry or winmo phone HAVE ANYTHING better then the iphone. in fact it's impossible any of those phone are better. the only phone, or platform that will rival the iphone is palms.
This gets you nowhere here. According to people here, the something as blatant as the Creative Zii Egg looks nothing like an iPhone/iPod Touch because the iPhone/iPod Touch wasn't the first device to look like that when clearly it's a blatant knockoff, and according to people here the iPhone has made no impact what so ever and any comment stating a correlation is massively downranked.
iPhone has made NO impact on the market. iPhone ABSOLUTELY SUCKS and there's NO reason for it to have such a high reputation. Understand these two things and you'll fit right in here.
your entitled to your opinion, but your assuming just because it's great for you, it's great for everyone else.
I've used iphone's before and the shortcomings really tick me off, aside from it being a great device. No multitasking is the biggest load of bullshit i have ever come across for instance, I get that u can turn on push etc but it's not anywhere near as convenient as running multiple apps at once. I'll admit it's a great media device, and once you jailbreak you get some form of half assed multitasking(backgrounder...) but it just isn't convenient to say the least.
I myself use an e71, the device has a fair few shortcomings and some ridiculous software bugs with the menu. Overall it's stable though, i can multitask to a ridiculous extent and can type at a decent speed. Web browsing though, gets it's ass handed to it by the iphone....but then again..it does the job.
All im saying is it's annoying that people see the iphone as either a godsend or a piece of shit. I don't see why there is so much hate in this topic.
also, I'm pretty sure the definition of a smartphone is that you can run native code on it. e.g. Symbian/Winmo Apps/IPhoneOS Apps. I myself don't consider bytecode as native.....but then again aren't android apps designed purely in java?....maybe saying J2ME isn't really a native implementation would be more accurate then?
Why are people degenerating them-selves to stupid elitism? THEY ARE JUST PHONES, don't get me wrong, i love smart phones with a passion but there is no need to favour one, i dont see any of you screaming and shouting on forums about how the milk brand you use, it seriously is that stupid, yes the iphone is good, mainly because it was the first big smart phone (first being the LG prada). Apple also has the money to buy the environment for which it grows in thus giving rise to the thousands of accessories and apps, i would like to remind some of you that the app store came about because of hackers like the dev-team and the jailbreak app developers like myself and others. Gizmondo editor jesus diaz mad a very good point about the iphone in his speculation over the apple tablet
"First, people who are afraid of computers—probably not you, the typical Giz reader, but most consumers out there—will love this device as much as they love their iPhones or iPod touches. Apple will keep mining the gold, and offering consumers this extremely easy-to-use interface that doesn't require any mental abstraction. Just click, touch and access the information, media or games you want, mixed with the occasional short mail or chat." (http://gizmodo.com/5336204/apple-tablet-the-wet-dream-concept)
Dont you see, the iphone is the equivalent of a fisher&price "my first smart phone" its not quite that bad i enjoyed my time with the iphone but i dont need 50 different flashlight apps, while the app-store introduces a level of freedom to the user the iphone is stil very restricting. Just consider the rest of the competition, LG is pumping them out nearly one a week in varying flavours of propriety OS and android and some of them will be better than an iphone to some people because this is a market of peoples needs, some people dont need or want an iphone, for some an LG cookie will suffice, for me i gave up on smart phones due to the crap music capability and went out to buy the crem de la crem of mp3's the cowon d2+, but i still own a blackberry for my smart phone cravings.One last point...
i predict that android will soon own a massive market share due to moores law, its open and its in genius, you fan boys need to pull your head out and remember that this is a typical market where different phones suit different folks, this is not an autocratic system with one phone to rule them all. seriously start opening your apple-frosted eyes.
PS: totally loving the android phone up top, may pick one up next year on my travels.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48gnKfDzKdo
DoCoMo SH-06A by Sharp as mentioned above
@Exekias
1. the iphone revolutionized smartphones, thats why almost every company now has there own app store now. that point needs to be made clear. (look i even left space, take that point in)
because without the app store, there would be no app world(LOL, very poor if i might add), app catalog, or andriod market.
2nd, andriod is very good i wont take anything away from it, its not there yet but will continue to grow. but for the simplicity you fault the iphone for is the same as the counter- intuitiveness of the andriod UI. if people think "business" users wont use the iphone (which makes very little sense, iphone will become the standard of business as the new generation of teens[our future CEO's] all use iphones) then there is no way in hell any business user is going to come close to an android. which right now is merely for playing around and customizing at this moment. another fault of the android is its universalness, different resolutions, different brands, and different currencies, i have to have a paypal to buy an app thats 5 euros? its too much non-sense, its impossible to make universal apps. and people done want to pay over paypal or convert euros to whatever they may use. its unrealistic.
in the end of the day the 1 million iphones sold in its first week means a lot of people use/like it. no one can deny it. and the more people that use it, the more people that love it. it comes with an apple customer care that no company can match, and thats the secret of apples success. who are you gonna call when your android breaks down? google? LG? HTC? MOTO?
hey DR House - every wonder why every one of your posts get "lowest rank"?
Is because you are a complete moron - so much so that you make all the other logical sane iPhone users look stupid.
Engadget, is there anyway we can ban this guy - he is such a nuisance...
If you're going to censor/remove comments Engadget, how about removing irrelevant ones too.
You're a dick.
I know.
@Truth:
First of all your name is pathetically ironic for reasons which will soon be evident.
Here is a quote from your post:
"Check your facts. 340 million Americans have chosen iPhone to be the top dawg. It is standard by which phones are measured."
According to the 2008 US Census, there are less than 305 million Americans. So, unless the US saw a population boom of over 10% in one of the worst financial times of our history, you are full of shit. Next time check to make sure that your made up statistics that supposedly lend credibility to your posts are possible if not probable.
And now everyone can enjoy digital tv on their phone...
All those in Europe I mean...
How can they say that the weight is comparable to the Dream and the MyTouch when one weighs about twice as much as the other? That's really not a good basis for comparison at all.