http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/ Engadget Comments for 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/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/May 4th 2010 12:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/May 4th 2010 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/
I like the look of that keyboard though. If they put that keyboard on a higher end model I might consider it.]]>May 4th 2010 12:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/Honest question for you Android guys. Aren't you getting a little put out that the only way to get upgrades seems to be purchasing a new handset every six months or so?

I'm an iPhone user, an admission I expect will earn me some downranks, but I bought a second handset, a 3GS based almost entirely on the 2 years of support I had received up until that point. In fact, the 2G I sold last year is only getting EOLed this year.

I would like to check out Android, but only if I can be guaranteed updates to the handset over the long term. Up until now, that meant that I would only consider the Nexus One since it comes straight from Google. Now that it seems that Google is backing away from the direct sales model, I wonder if I'll ever feel comfortable buying an Android handset.

Side note: I loved HTC's hardware back when they made WM PDAs for a bunch of different manufacturers, and Sense UI looks awesome (I even made a Sense theme for my iPhone awhile back), but at this point, there's no way in hell I would buy an HTC device, and that's solely based on what looks like a pretty dismal support history.

Froyo looks like it might fix some of the above for accessory programs, but what about core OS updates when your manufacturer or carrier stops caring about your purchase? If you hack it, you lose Sense ;)]]>May 4th 2010 12:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/
Nope. For the same reason that iPhone users jailbreak their phones when they're tired of playing by Apple's rules, there's always dev support that makes rooting one's phone extremely easy for Android.

I can update to 2.1 whenever. However, I'm pretty satisfied with 1.5, and am waiting for HTC to release the OFFICIAL version of 2.1 for my Hero.]]>May 4th 2010 12:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/
PS thanks for being a logical iPhone user!]]>May 4th 2010 1:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/May 4th 2010 1:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/
speaking to an average iphone user (assuming they don't know about jailbreaking therefore wouldn't ever root android), i'd say sure it can be annoying that you will feel behind the times, but not to worry most carriers/manufacturers will do their best to try and speed things up and while there are some things u are missing out, android is still android, and it is still an awesome OS (then i'd mention how google is trying to fix the fragmentation prob, etc)

but speaking to you, you said u made a theme for the iphone, which means u've jailbroken, which means u would root, so your whole post is troll bait, and that kind of makes you a tool. because anyone who would jailbreak would root and then would always have the most up to date version of the OS and would never feel any probs with framentation.]]>May 4th 2010 1:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/
you answered his question a lot better and more politely than i... good work, now i feel kind of toolish...]]>May 4th 2010 1:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/While I agree that Android seems better than iPhone OS(all though I personally think WebOS looks even better and WP7 looks much worse then all of the above IMHO), I do just want to mention I used to have the same kind of expereiences vis a vis the secret club feeling for a while after I got my iPhone 3G back in 08, and ive heard online that people get that with their Palm Pre's. So i think it's more of a new exciting phone thing then an android thing.
BTW, how the he'll do you only have 1 month left on your G1 contract? It came out in what October 08? After my 3G anyway, and I got mine a week after launch, which has July, and still have till then for my contract to go up. ]]>May 4th 2010 2:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/Hmm. I gotta say that your response pissed me off upon my first reading, but this is Engadget and trolls abound, so I'll just assume you meant no harm:

Yes, I do jailbreak, and yes I've coded themes (not just artwork) and have even dabbled with native development... That doesn't mean I want to be forced to roll my own to keep current though.

I've had multitasking for a long time now, and copy/paste long before Apple rolled it into the official firmware. The jailbreak community does an awesome job and I'm grateful, but time and time again, when Apple finally gets around to rolling in a feature I'm waiting for, they do it better than the solution I had. And that's why long term manufacturer support is important to me.

It was a legitimate concern I have about the platform. This might seem crazy for a guy reading a gadget blog....but I want all of them. I love the iPhone, I want a Pre Plus, I want an Android and probably will want to play with WP7 when it comes out. I've owned several WM devices in the past...

Drop the my team vs your team bullshit. This is a gadget blog...we're supposed to be fans of technology here.]]>May 4th 2010 3:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/May 4th 2010 3:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://j.mp/mytouch3g-sans-slider-phenomenal]]>May 4th 2010 3:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/Personally, I love HTC's products. I've never had any issue with the two phones I've bought from them, nor any need for their support. They make solid devices, and unless you're a phone abuser (intentionally or not), I don't think you'd have a problem.

That said, Samsung or Motorola are making some good Android phones as well. I'd stay away from the Behold 2 and Cliq, but otherwise, they look pretty good. Just stay away from phones that are skinned if you want constant upgrades, think of the poor Hero still on Android 1.5. ]]>May 4th 2010 4:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/
I posted something like this earlier, but you're right. I just don't know what Google can do about it without making some major changes to how it licenses Android. Apple gets money from you buying the phone, signing the contract with at&t, buying apps, buying music, etc. So they have incentive to keep all of their phones up to date. Other phone manufacturers only make money on the initial sale of the phone so they only have incentive to make you buy another phone.

I'm really hoping Froyo fixes this, but who knows...]]>May 4th 2010 5:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/Late ya think?, I just bought my self a Touch pro2]]>May 4th 2010 5:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/As long as Android is open and 'free', we will always see Android devices not updated.
That should be less and less a problem with future Android versions.]]>May 4th 2010 6:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/May 4th 2010 10:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/theyll be greatly solving that problem with new versions, android is new, google has had many excellent updates, and not far between each update, so it kind of seeps through, however its up to the phone manufacturer to put it to your phone.
but theyre getting onto stopping this kind of thing happening with, is it gingerbread?, but yeah, the next few versions will help 'stop' the lack of updates some people have]]>May 4th 2010 11:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/May 4th 2010 12:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/
It's quite simple. Buy a Nexus One or a similar device in the future. As an owner of a N1 I haven't felt the desire the "jailbreak" or "root" as I know the next update is right around the corner and I will be the first to get it.]]>May 4th 2010 12:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/"Honest question for you Android guys. Aren't you getting a little put out that the only way to get upgrades seems to be purchasing a new handset every six months or so?"

I dunno, I've been using my G1 since it came out (what nearly 18months ago) and don't notice missing eclair or froyo. Want I would like is a AMOLED screen w/HDMI port, which **no** vendor offers yet.

I think you're referring to the 1% of Android users that switched from the iPhone or Pre thinking they be at the coolest, top of the food chain of technology since they'd be getting updates constantly.

I mean the only real problems are the slow CPU and the app memory limits on my G1, and considering I can do everything that an iPhone 3GS can do, is that's asking much from Android 1.6 on a phone older than a 3GS?]]>May 4th 2010 12:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/
I just appreciate a general honest question about all these OS's we have to choose from and not the usual nonsense I read in here; if i could uprank you 4 more times i would, comments that provoke real discussion, who wouldve thought!]]>May 4th 2010 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/
I jailbroke my iPod Touch and have looked into rooting my N1. From what I can tell, rooting is way more of a pain in the ass than jailbreaking. When I first did my Touch in Nov. '07, it was comparable to rooting, but these days, JB is pretty fire-and-forget. Rooting still has multiple steps and putting things in specific directories on the SD card and running terminal commands to change the bootloader and running install commands...

I can re-jailbreak my Touch on a whim, but I feel like I need a damn good reason to go to the hassle of rooting my N1. Maybe if someone comes out with a rock-solid Sense build for it.
]]>May 4th 2010 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/
is that only me or someone else also thinks that after last several Android phones with 1 GHz, every new Android phone with less power seems obsolete? ]]>May 4th 2010 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/
I've had my G1 rooted since a root came out, practically. And in this smart phone arena with so much tooth & nail show off, I can't really say there's been much in the way of iPhones or Pre's running other versions of their OS. I've been running eclair on my G1 practically since it came out, but have also tested Sense UI, Motoblur, Samsung Cube UI all on my G1 and while granted it doesn't have the processing power as the Incredible, I haven't had to pay thousands of dollars to have pretty much the same experience that others had to pay to get.

Gosh, with Android, especially if you're a root user, the community is huge with the end users relationship to the dev's of the roots. When Cyanogen came out with the MUCH anticipated 5.0.7 rom for G1 and MT3g there was an explosion of blogging in practically every Android forum. I don't do much research on the iPhone so I don't know if the community for the iPhone is similar but I don't remember seeing a blog about an upcoming root for the 2g iPhone that made it as good as the 3gs, only how an Apple sponsored bust down of two bloggers doors, stole their computers, after they received their prototype back.

And while I've felt a bit left out in the cold as a G1 user with all the other phones coming out with 2.1 and would like an 'official' update from Google, I can't imagine not having some of the cool features that my rooted phone has enabled that an official version would include, like wired and wireless tethering, and 360' rotation of the home screen which isn't stock on any device that runs Android. But then again, I'm the type of person, since Android has come out, who would want to root my phone, and can't imagine using this My Touch Slide unrooted for very long.]]>May 4th 2010 7:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/May 4th 2010 12:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/May 4th 2010 12:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/May 4th 2010 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/No need to make it sound like a disadvantage. There's EVOOOO!]]>May 4th 2010 12:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/
Considering you can't even finish a complete sentence with any recognizable syntax, it would be very difficult to agree with you on anything.]]>May 4th 2010 1:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/Can you like, you know, try to fix your grammar and whatnot to AT LEAST make whatever you're saying, understandable?]]>May 4th 2010 1:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/i didnt to, im still waiting for the EVO :D

@hated one
who the FUCK does all 6 of those thing at the same time!!...without looking like a douchbag lol]]>May 4th 2010 1:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/May 4th 2010 2:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/May 4th 2010 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/Oh gawd I know.
I have the original MyTouch and have been loathing the name ever since. It sounds so cheesy, like an iPod Touch and an iPhone 3G mixed together in some horribly toxic combination. ]]>May 4th 2010 12:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/yeah... can you imagine what a cross between the iPod Touch and iPhone 3g would look like? disgusting]]>May 4th 2010 4:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/My brain almost asplodes when I try to think what a cross between an iPod Touch and an iPod 3G would look like. It doesn't matter which way I try: an iPhone that cannot make calls is like what? Or an iPod Touch that does make calls? DOES...NOT...COMPUTE...]]>May 4th 2010 5:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/May 4th 2010 10:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/
Did I just fall back into the 90's? Geez.....]]>May 4th 2010 12:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/May 4th 2010 12:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/May 4th 2010 12:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/HTC probably doesn't care about that.
I'm with Patlex. Chances are this is T-Mo's design.]]>May 4th 2010 12:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/
They do have to diversify though, and I can see middle/high school kids totally loving a device like this. I still prefer the original Sense UI, but I gotta say I wouldn't mind having this Expresso build. And the keyboard looks really good too.]]>May 4th 2010 1:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/May 4th 2010 12:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/May 4th 2010 2:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/May 4th 2010 12:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/May 4th 2010 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/Get an android phone.
Boom! Problem solved]]>May 4th 2010 1:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide-official-android-2-1-qwerty-coming/
- VDubb]]>May 4th 2010 12:12AM