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| Name I'd rather see it named the G-Spot. That way, if you loose your phone, you can Google the term "Where is the G-Spot" and it will give you a Google map of it's current location. Of course, some people still will have a hard time finding it no matter how hard they look.
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join:2001-01-13
Glen Head, NY
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| Re: Hmmmm said by Transmaster  :This just might get me into a cell phone at last. As a hamradio operator I have not felt the need for one any one I want to talk to is on the other end of a radio. It took me until two years ago to finally get one. I used auto-patch when in the car and VOIP at home. However, after one too many frustrations of needing a working payphone and not finding one I finally bit the bullet and signed on with T-Mobile during a Labor Day promotion back in 2005. I have not regretted it.
Now if the Google phone mandates the use of SIM cards or their CDMA equivalent R-UIM's then it will be a fantastic package. | |
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Tulsa, OK | Re: Name oh golly you are so funny...  | |
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Packeteers
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3 edits | it's about time samsung makes money on the hardware
google makes money on the OS and apps
cell service providers make money on plans
and consumers FINALLY get phones that
can do whatever the heck they want, and
American's can go back to innovating
the hell out of the rest of the World!
iPhones are nice, but a gPhone is what
would make me break a contract to get.
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gaforces
United We Stand, Divided We Fall
join:2002-04-07
Santa Cruz, CA | Re: it's about time But will it run windows? All we need now is the M-Phone, ATTaPhone, and the V-Phone to make the circle complete. | |
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| Re: it's about time said by gaforces :But will it run windows? The story says it will run Linux.
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MD2Be
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Warner Robins, GA | We'll see how open this thing really stays once money becomes involved. Additionally isn't Google going to be putting advertisements on these things? According to the article at CNN they were. | |
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tc1uscg
join:2005-03-09
Saint Clair Shores, MI
3 edits | Re: it's about time That is one slick looking phone. Hey Steve.. hows your blood pressure? 
Next question, will be be priced lower (199.99?) after rebates, blah blah blah.. Maybe it's just me but I seem to recall all the media blitz months before iPhone came out. Guess google doesn't have as much money allicated to buying air time to "push" their product down everyones throat like Apple did. But, gotta wonder what the deciding factor was for Google? VZW=Control freaks. ATT=Not only no but hell no, keep your iPhone. Sprint=Wimax, nice backbone that can handle the bandwidth needs.. oh yea. T-Moble=Spread the wealth (hey, the guys at google always did like the underdog)  | |
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Transmaster
Don't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY | Re: it's about time The built in computing power of the Meiz phone is impressive. The Blog gives the target price range and it's straight price is cheaper, plug in discounts and you will really have a iPhone killer.
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join:2001-10-30
Villa Rica, GA
| Now if only ..they could get all the electronic phone manufacturers to agree to use the same bloody charger technology, pins and cable we could cut millions in costs and waste every year.
Come on Google are you listening?
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join:2001-08-19
Austin, TX | Re: Now if only YESSSSS!!!! | |
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morbo
Complete Your Transaction
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Transmaster
Don't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY | Re: Now if only Sure wish they would do this for the larger MP3 players.
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LiamJunket
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join:2002-03-03
Ocean City, NJ
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4 edits |  Google makes their official announcement - Android
A broad alliance of leading technology and wireless companies today joined forces to announce the development of Android, the first truly open and comprehensive platform for mobile devices. Google Inc., T-Mobile, HTC, Qualcomm, Motorola and others have collaborated on the development of Android through the Open Handset Alliance, a multinational alliance of technology and mobile industry leaders.
Consumers should expect the first phones based on Android to be available in the second half of 2008.
Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt. "Today's announcement is more ambitious than any single 'Google Phone' that the press has been speculating about over the past few weeks. Weird with the name of Android.
Here is the list of the companies in the coalition:
Aplix (www.aplixcorp.com), Ascender Corporation (www.ascendercorp.com), Audience (www.audience.com), Broadcom (www.broadcom.com), China Mobile (www.chinamobile.com), eBay (www.ebay.com), Esmertec (www.esmertec.com), Google (www.google.com), HTC (www.htc.com), Intel (www.intel.com), KDDI (www.kddi.com), LivingImage (www.livingimage.jp), LG (www.lge.com), Marvell (www.marvell.com), Motorola (www.motorola.com), NMS Communications (www.nmscommunications.com), Noser (www.noser.com), NTT DoCoMo, Inc. (www.nttdocomo.com), Nuance (www.nuance.com), Nvidia (www.nvidia.com), PacketVideo (www.packetvideo.com), Qualcomm (www.qualcomm.com), Samsung (www.samsung.com), SiRF (www.sirf.com), SkyPop (www.skypop.com), SONiVOX (www.sonivoxrocks.com), Sprint Nextel (www.sprint.com), Synaptics (www.synaptics.com), TAT - The Astonishing Tribe (www.tat.se), Telecom Italia (www.telecomitalia.com), Telefónica (www.telefonica.es), Texas Instruments (www.ti.com), T-Mobile (www.t-mobile.com), Wind River (www.windriver.com).
Here is the OFFICIAL web site for the handset alliance:
»www.openhandsetalliance.com/
And Sprint's announcement of support for the open source mobile handset:
»newsreleases.sprint.com/phoenix.···=1072575
Looks like USAToday missed the boat on its inside info by quite a bit.
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LiamJunket
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Ocean City, NJ
·Comcast
3 edits | Re: Google makes their official announcement - Android The Google Blog also has something to say on the subject of the new phone alliance:
»googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/···one.html
Despite all of the very interesting speculation over the last few months, we're not announcing a Gphone. However, we think what we are announcing -- the Open Handset Alliance and Android -- is more significant and ambitious than a single phone. In fact, through the joint efforts of the members of the Open Handset Alliance, we hope Android will be the foundation for many new phones and will create an entirely new mobile experience for users, with new applications and new capabilities we can’t imagine today. A YouTube video on Android:
»www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6x0zZsqI3s%20 | |
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aztecnology
O Rly?
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Murrieta, CA | They should have named it Hemroid, cuz its been such a pain in the ass... | |
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gaforces
United We Stand, Divided We Fall
join:2002-04-07
Santa Cruz, CA
1 edit | Ok, Im sold!
I'll take one with HUD-LCD polarizing (prescription) sunglasses/binoculars/camera w infra red, wii like ring sensors, mic, earphones, and I think I'll be good. | |
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Transmaster
Don't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY
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| Oh my If I read the way this open source system is going to work any of you who might have stock in any of the pre-paid cell phone services should dump their stock now. The Android phone is going to kill them off. These pre-paid services have always been a total rip-off.
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join:2002-01-22
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| well it depends would there be a single Gphone or multiple phones that follow some kinda "Gphone" standard.
if they do this right it could totally trash the iPhone if it isnt made single network centric.
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LiamJunket
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| Re: Google makes their official announcement - Android said by Kearnstd :well it depends would there be a single Gphone or multiple phones that follow some kinda "Gphone" standard. if they do this right it could totally trash the iPhone if it isnt made single network centric. From my reading of the news release and the Google Blog, etc., it appears that there will not be some specific Gphone, but phones from multiple hardware vendors that will work on various wireless carriers(in the US to start at least Sprint & T-mobile). The phone will have a Linux based OS and the coalition will be providing a development toolkit that any developer can use to write open source apps for the phone. Google will, of course, have their own apps written for this open source cell phone OS. But any other vendor can write apps for the platform as well - say Yahoo or MSN search tools and not just Google's search tool.
The application development toolkit is supposed to be out next week. And hardware vendors will be releasing phones that the new OS can run on by 2nd half of 2008.
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PolarBear
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Riverside, WA | No deathstar? No problem. said by article :
Noticeably absent from the Google coalition: AT&T (T) and Verizon Wireless (VZ). Too bad... NOT. Looks like a Google-powered phone will be my next T-mobile handset. | |
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Piggie
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join:2005-11-23
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| Re: No deathstar? No problem. said by PolarBear : Looks like a Google-powered phone will be my next T-mobile handset. Don't know about this one, but normally phones are ported to GSM for ATT (old cingular, older ATT) first then since T is also GSM, they buy the same phones.
Truly open will be you go buy the phone on line or at WalMart, with a cable or blue tooth. Then program in from open source sites the way you want it, then contact carrier.
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PolarBear
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| Re: No deathstar? No problem. said by Piggie :Don't know about this one, but normally phones are ported to GSM for ATT (old cingular, older ATT) first then since T is also GSM, they buy the same phones. said by article :
Noticeably absent from the Google coalition: AT&T (T) and Verizon Wireless (VZ). Looks like T-Mobile might get in on this before AT&T, since AT&T is too busy signing exclusive contracts with Teh Steve.
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@comcast.net | Re: Some reporting on the new Android OS Exactly. And there's no way the carriers are going to allow an unlocked phone without a law requiring it. Google effectively announced an embedded software development kit. Big deal. | |
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Baytown, TX | Re: Some reporting on the new Android OS Exactly.... I don't see the value in a Google branded phone. If I choose to remove all of the Google apps on the phone then where does this benefit Google? | |
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join:2000-10-02
Baytown, TX
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| 95% will not care Only us techno nuts will see the significance of running Linux on a phone with Google apps. I don't see any more than a small percentage of users really being interested in an open source phone. Most of these will be power users like myself who would be more interested in the Linux factor than Google stuff. Call me a WM6 fanboy, but most of the nice applications these days are based on windows mobile platforms and will probably stay that way even after the linux phone is released. | |
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