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| The designers name is Ryan Scott Bardsley, he has a company called TIXEL HCI. It's no wonder the phone has been showing up in Boston, as that is where he lives.
»www.tixel.net/
The phone has some interesting features including biometric security, touch screen and soft press speed dial features. | |
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spewak
Kiss It, Kiss It Real Good
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Elk Grove, CA | as for Microsoft and their "possible acquisition of RIM": there they go "innovating" again. 
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NOCMan
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| Re: as for Microsoft God I hope regulators do not let that happen. Microsoft would hold a monopoly on devices like blackberry.
Oh wait there's competition it's called a locked in contract with AT&T plus a iPhone.
Somehow that will be their argument for approval. | |
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DooD
join:2002-02-10
Jacksonville, FL | Re: as for Microsoft No more so than the one RIM already has. | |
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ifarrell
join:2000-08-10
Willow Spring, NC
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| Re: as for Microsoft said by DooD  :No more so than the one RIM already has. And how does RIM have a Monopoly?
There's plenty of competition in the Mobile Phone market.
The downside I can see from Microsoft acquiring RIM is they'll turn a good product into an even more over priced product. | |
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pnh102
Reptiles Are Cuddly And Pretty
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join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD
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| Google Impact If Google really wants to cause seismic activity within the mobile phone racket, then it cannot do it by offering "yet another phone."
The business model of this phone must be radically different from existing offerings. For example, if the service was covered by the cost of ads, and not by subscribers, then Google will be able to make an impression here. The same ad-supported model could also work for data connectivity.
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LiamJunket
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join:2002-03-03
Ocean City, NJ
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1 edit | Re: Google Impact said by pnh102 :The business model of this phone must be radically different from existing offerings. For example, if the service was covered by the cost of ads, and not by subscribers, then Google will be able to make an impression here. The same ad-supported model could also work for data connectivity. Google won't be offering either a phone or wireless access. It will be offering software to run on various manufacturers phones. And they aren't in the business of offering wireless access either - at least not yet. IF they bid on spectrum, it won't be until Jan 2008 at the earliest.
So I don't see how they are going to change any business models here. The wireless providers are still going to want their money and the handset manufacturers will also. The only thing that MAY become free might be some data access to the internet if Google underwrites it with ads.
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sivran
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Arlington, TX
clubs: | Re: Google Impact Quick clarification - Google already offers software for phones. What this news article more likely means is that Google will offer an OS for phones. | |
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DooD
join:2002-02-10
Jacksonville, FL
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| Actually, I think "yet another phone" will cause serious buzz in the industry. Not necessarily as much as the iPhone did but a lot. I think you underestimate the number of people that will go get it strictly because it's related to Google. Especially if it's labeled an iPhone killer. A lot of people, myself included, use a myriad of google mobile software and to have all of that and more in a phone with an OS designed by google would be enough to make me want one. And if it's offered by my current carrier - I'll cancell my plans for a phone with WM6 and go with it. | |
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Titus Pullo
I came, I saw, I slept
join:2004-06-26
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| They can all wipe their (a()()) with their phones. I'm sooo sick of cell phones. Everywhere I go someone has a phone stuck in their ear, or they're writing a text message or there's an ipod up their arse. I'm at the local UNI here the other day, and I'm next to a guy 'texting' on his phone. I'm not staring, but I quickly notice some nonsense on a screen while a woman in a wheelchair is waiting to get around him. Enough with the diversion: what's so Gdamn important that it can't wait?
Are you telling me that ALL this cell calling and texting is of an urgent nature?
Nonsense. It's another minute_by_minute gadget-fest for the Chinese/TeleCom consortium to separate the US consumer_bot from his/her money.
Does the Brooklyn guy do a phone thing? He really should! 
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Arctic nut
join:2006-11-26
Thief River Falls, MN | Re: They can all wipe Yup! You sure got that right and the telcos are laughing all the way to the bank! | |
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StarFish267
join:2005-11-25
Fort Worth, TX | Wi-Max Google & Sprint are already working together on
Wi-Fi & Wi-Max so I bet this will be a new Sprint phone.
"Could it be coming just in time for Christmas?"
We'll see, Hint Hint. | |
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DooD
join:2002-02-10
Jacksonville, FL
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| Re: Well... Well from what I can gather this M8 phone is a GSM phone and therefore will not work with Sprint. Which is really depressing as I have sprint and there are a lot of cool phones and options with GSM phones that I don't have access to being with sprint. However, none of the other carriers can come close to the price on an apples to apples comparison of the service. | |
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tmc8080
join:2004-04-24
Floral Park, NY
| not necessary to compete, if... If google can get a phone on a network that is NOT subject to taxes, regulation and requirements of the traditional cellular carriers.. Google WINS before the game is even started, or scheduled. Unlimited calling, access on a PDA, HANDSET, WIMAX usb interface or any other WIMAX enabled product with virtually NO TAXES or fees is a real possibility, and don't think every cellular carrier (and their MOTHER) is going to do EVERYTHING possible to scuttle that kind of plan.
Just think what would happen if customers of traditional bread and butter wireless's customers told them to take a FLYING LEAP... and cancel their phone service in FLOODS (aka MILLIONS of customers) | |
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chef423
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join:2000-09-02
Springfield, IL |  phones suck
Keep feeding the machine...as you already do. | |
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Scree
In the pipe 5 by 5
join:2001-04-24
Mount Laurel, NJ | No, it's not. Where's the aolPhone! ha | |
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mudpie2
@verizon.net
| VOIP Phones America missed the cell phone boat years ago. We should have adopted GSM/UMTS. One world standard. Did you know that in Germany cell phone users do not pay for incoming calls?
VOIP phones-any Skype enable or the new Google Phone need a wireless hotspot to work. If you connect to someones open wireless access point without verbal or written permission, you are essentially hacking the network and could face prosecution if caught.
So how will the marketing engine ensure that new owners will be able to actually use the phone outside their own wireless network? i.e at home? | |
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RK_Coyote
@videotron.ca
| Re: VOIP Phones LOL, this could be hilarious... but it's so sad... In over a decade of using cells I never paid for incoming calls, neither on plans neither on pay-as-you-go... And I arrived to north America... the third world of communication technologies...
I discovered that in Canada broadband means 64k or more...
that you are caped on bandwidth! oO that Adsl is slower here than wireless broadband in Asia... That you still have the backward CDMA mobile phone system (but some phone operators know about UMTS and GSM apparently)... It's as if USA still believed it was on the top of technology and forgot to continue evolving a since a decade. Sounds just like French attitude, or do the American believe in those adds for retards. calling from an international cell in Canada to Canada costs more than calling to Canada from Poland... Move your ass you third-world fat asses! | |
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The Google Phone Is Coming
