Google Officially Intros the Nexus One
You can forget about the iphone on Verizon now.
This tablet of Apples better be good as the bar keeps moving higher by the day.
an iPhone from 2007 that was sold simply as a phone + iPod + Internet tablet can still run most of the apps in the app store. In fact, a 2.5 year old iPhone is more up to date than 60% of the Android handsets for sale. It got updated with Podcasts, Street View, and triangulation as well.
That's the very benefit of the iPhone- it isn't obsolete the minute after you purchase it.
Also, who cares about a removable battery or memory card reader? Honestly, who cares?
Anyone that has ever had a battery fail part way through their contract and wanted a replacement for it.
Anyone that uses the life of more than one battery in a day.
Anyone who has ever needed to pull the battery out of their phone to resolve a rather insignificant software error.
Furthermore New applications for the iPhone is not an evolution. A new model of the phone is not an evolution. Android was created in a way that allows the phone to move to a new operating system and evolve in nature much the way a PC does with newer better (debatably) verisions of windows. The iPhone barely lets you chan...
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The rest of this is hyperbole. The OS is upgraded pretty easily on the phone- you simply connect to iTunes and it is done. That isn't something Droid does that nobody else can do. RIM and Apple have both been doing that for a while.
The simple fact is that Android is on par with the iPhone. It is better in some ways and worse in others. The real issue is that Android isn't catching the public's attention. No google phone has come anywhere close to matching the hype around the iPhone. Until that happens, HTC can make a million phones that will totally fall apart in 18 months (seems like that is their life limit- at least the phones with Sprint) and...
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Yes, 2.1 might not work on the g1, but does that mean google shouldn't release it?
the iphone has hype because it's made by apple. if a phone with the SAME exact capabilities/UI was released by another company (lets say Samsung/LG) the phone wouldn't be as big as it is now.
Say Blackberry released the iphone first.. I can guarentee you that it wouldn't be as popular as the apple iphone, simply because they needed to make sure OS 3.0 works on all versions. Yes, it's nice, but it is also a hinderance.
That being said.. I highly doubt you'll see the fragmentation now that Nexus is playing. "With Google" devices will most likely get direct downloads from google, no matter what carrier. The only ones that might have a delay are ones with MotoBLUR, Sensui and the like, and expect that to change.
Open source doesn't have the same development path as...
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Even photo kiosk printing can be done through apps on the iPhone, and it's not something done too commonly.
If the iPhone's battery fails you take it in and they swap it out. If it's out of warranty you simply pay for the cost of a new battery, not a new iPhone. In exchange for that, the iPhone has a small form factor, good battery life, and doesn't suffer from battery doors falling off.
The iPhone also doesn't suffer from serious software errors to the tune that you need to...
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Why does the iphone 3gs become a monster when you jailbreak it, at least moreso than the stock by such an amount? That phone is capable of so much more than Apple is allowing, why? because if they made it as powerful as it could be, they would have separate software releases as well.
Especially consdiering how big of a screen the Iphones battery has to power.
Dude, turn on a tv, read a paper, or go to ANY other news site that isn't sponsored by apple.
And why in the world would verizon want a phone that they make next to no profit on (comparatively) when they are adding customers and releasing devices that even apple blogs like (check out their ratings on android)
Your fanboy-ism over the Iphone really needs to take a back seat for awhile. The Iphone was a tremendous success in 2007, 2008, and most of 2009. It's OLD news now. Google (notice I say Google and NOT VERIZON) is the new player in town. The specs on the Nexus One completely destroy that of the Iphone. The Iphone is not obsolete by any means and will continue to get it's upgraded software, but it's stale, it needs a refresh. Apple will no doubt refresh the Iphone to something nice, but it's once unequivocal nature is coming to an end. People like choices and once again, google is providing them with that.
And if you browse the net at all and read tech forums, not everyone has been drinking the Iphone KoolAid. People are getting...
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The Specs on the Nexus One are better than the iPhone's.... and guess what, it still can't pull up a web page as fast (see another post in this thread.) . Android has had a lot more publicity than actual development for the platform. Despite all of the fuss about Google's mobile push, they haven't accomplished anything. Their platform has no more direction than it did in 2008. The iPhone meanwhile, has morphed from a new standard of UI to becoming THE standard of mobile computin. Android has shown us NOTHING other than POTENTIAL.
And I don't think Verizon knows how to run its business very w...
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2)Residuals: What chunk is APPLE taking? And how much money did ATT have to pay out to keep their contract.
Apple MAKES phones, ATT markets them. Combined, I'm positive they spend more than Verizon is. (Googles advertisement was a text blip on their homepage)
Do you understand how phone contracts work? (ATT is taking a huge subsidy hit on the iphone as well, just fyi)
VZW is not a one-horse show like that other gig in town...
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