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8 commentsFriday, August 15, 2008

Google's Android Phone Slated For Autumn Arrival?

Magic Eight Ball says, "Probably"

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By Home Remedies (WPN reader) - Tue, 10/28/2008 - 20:37

Issues with platform

I am hearing reports of the Android OS being vulnerable to attacks, does anyone have more info on this?

By Jeromy (WPN reader) - Tue, 08/19/2008 - 12:15

As a T-Mobile Emplyee for the last 3 years I know a good deal about the phone. From the demos I have seen of the phone it self and the Android platform it will be very mean little phone. T-Mobiles data plan is currently 19.99 a month and will not change for the G-Phone.

Granted right now most of the country is limited to the standard GPRS and EDGE data service however our 3 G network fill be fully ramped up by the end of the year.

The G-Phone is currently going threw our quality tests and is projected to release mid October if all goes well.

As we all know the big G makes most of their money from their adds. One of the starnge and kind of stalker ish things the phone will have the ability to do is track your location and display ads for local business which is a little strange.

Overall the phone should be an Iphone killer. It is not as cool looking but the open source code is the key to this phone. Anyone that developes software will have the ability to disign for the phone thanks to Googles open API for pretty much everything they do. Google also has a big cash prize out for the best software for the phone.

A good example of this is a program that uses the GPS to tell when rooms you are in in your office building and will turning your ringer on and off accordingly. That is a small example but as people know Windows Mobiles have a large following of software designers and I'm sure the G-Phone will have an even larger one.

By Guest (WPN reader) - Tue, 08/19/2008 - 04:54

Don’t believe all you read..

Well new products always have problems which delay launch and the publicity the delays create are all good from a marketing point of view.

As for network and handset restrictions…

The whole point of Androide is it is open source and it runs on Linux, considering Linux can be installed on just about any platform with a processor in it from satnavs to freezers there are no restrictions.

Go to any good Linux site and you can download it now and install it on almost anything you want, add Android and your away.

There are also 1000’s of people writing software applications for this platform.

By Nairobia (WPN reader) - Tue, 08/19/2008 - 02:40