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Speculation is rife. Will it be a phone or just a set of Google phone apps?

Announcement later today
 
this is going ot be like bloody gmail isn't it where ti turns out google don't own the rights tot he Gphone brand name (they don't) and they'll end up calling it summit stoopid...
 
Who knows, who cares, what gives, etc?

I dunno, can't see it being an actual phone just a phone with tons of Google stuff (GStuff?) on it...
 
Kid_Eternity said:
Who knows, who cares, what gives, etc?
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Who cares?!!

When Google sneezes, just about the entire the technology world gets a dollop of G-snot, so I'd say it's pretty damn important to talk about what they're up to.

My initial reaction to this announcement is that it's going to provide an almighty kick up the backside to the mobile industry with several big brands already signed up and free to use their new open source OS .

I suspect it's going to be a bit of a "yowch" for Palm and a few others too.
 
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Who cares?!!

When Google sneezes, just about the entire the technology world gets a dollop of G-snot, so I'd say it's pretty damn important to talk about what they're up to.

My initial reaction to this announcement is that it's going to provide an almighty kick up the backside to the mobile industry with several big brands already signed up and free to use their new open source OS .

I suspect it's going to be a bit of a "yowch" for Palm and a few others too.
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Nokia was way ahead of the game with their Maemo platform for ITs ;)
 
I never had the aPhone and they are on I and G already :(

I'll probably wait for the zPhone. At least it can't go out of fashion then as they'll have run out of letters.
 
Ah its more ambitious than a gPhone. They hope to get google on everyone's phone and are offering an open platform towards these ends.
 
editor said:
Who cares?!!

When Google sneezes, just about the entire the technology world gets a dollop of G-snot, so I'd say it's pretty damn important to talk about what they're up to.

My initial reaction to this announcement is that it's going to provide an almighty kick up the backside to the mobile industry with several big brands already signed up and free to use their new open source OS .

I suspect it's going to be a bit of a "yowch" for Palm and a few others too.
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Sure I concede the effect will be big amongst the chattering tech classes, but what will the average person in the street think? Will they even have a clue that their phone is now about to be G'd up 2 da MaX!?

Seriously outside the tech forums, the commenters wanking off and us on this forum who really gives a fuck?
 
Kid_Eternity said:
Sure I concede the effect will be big amongst the chattering tech classes, but what will the average person in the street think? Will they even have a clue that their phone is now about to be G'd up 2 da MaX!
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You don't seem to understand how big this announcement is. There are a huge number of industry big players involved, all looking to develop for this new platform. It's potentially the biggest change in the mobile market for years and may end up crushing the dominance of Microsoft, Palm, RIM and Apple.
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Seriously outside the tech forums, the commenters wanking off and us on this forum who really gives a fuck?
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Seeing as there's a good chance that the 'average person in the street' will end up using a phone powered by this new OS, I'd say it's of general interest. It's certainly as newsworthy as an iPhone launch. More so, if you ask me.
 
You haven't answered any of my questions, the main one being; what will the average person think?

If I phone a family member or my mates and start blathering on about this I doubt very much any of them would take much interest yet they all have heard of the iPhone and find it quite cool/interesting etc.

I understand full well (I can't not given my very obvious interest in this are!) how big this is on one level but do you understand how irrelevant it is on another more day to day level?
 
Kid_Eternity said:
You haven't answered any of my questions, the main one being; what will the average person think?
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I've no idea what the average person will 'think' and neither have you, but it's quite likely that the Google OS will end up playing a part in quite a few people's lives.
Kid_Eternity said:
I understand full well (I can't not given my very obvious interest in this are!) how big this is on one level but do you understand how irrelevant it is on another more day to day level?
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What point are you trying to make here? Things don't have to be of an earth shattering nature to make an interesting topic of discussion in a techie forum like this.
 
i think it's as relevant as 95 coming out before os2 actually in terms of the next 10 years of computing and no the average people might not be intrested in it at present. they weren't intrested in microsoft or apple initially or google for that matter... but the average person does get hit by the bow wave of these changes and then it does impact on their lives.

So as it happens this fingers crossed will be the end of M$ they simply cannot compete with google long term. particularlly not with a closed source system. imagine it googles day of code month of code and billions on nix'ed up people who's os does everything that windows does but is safer online and secure and has no viruses... hmmmm.... people have to upgrade in the next 3 years anyways or will be barracked into it as their machines get slower the net get's faster and they wear out and are replaced now either you can go for the windows system but have to relearn it, again we aren't talking teccie spods like us here who can see that changed icons and a wizzy search do not alter the underlying architeture one jot, all the average suer si going to see is that it looks different and is more difficult to use and seems to have loads of really annoying popups which there doesn't seem to be a way of turning off.

Or they learn a mac, though this is unlikely due to the cost differnetial between ooo i can get a laptop made by kids in china for 30 p from hell computors or i can buy the apple which seems to have less ram and less hard drive space and i have only ever seen the apple montiors never what the computors look like and they are way to fat i want a flat screen etc...

Or google, oh it's just a google machine i know google it's simple, it only has 57 words on the front screen i have a gmail and they did that ever so nice toolbar which blocks those popups and they told me about some other things... it looks simple... why can't my old machine look like this? will it let me look at my email? and my old documents?

It will...

and at that point my friend they will have them eatting out of their hands...
 
awr mate that was posted beofre even reading the who's who...
Aplix, Ascender Corporation, Audience, Broadcom, China Mobile, eBay, Esmertec, Google, HTC, Intel, KDDI, LivingImage, LG, Marvell, Motorola, NMS Communications, Noser, NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Nuance, Nvidia, PacketVideo, Qualcomm, Samsung, SiRF, SkyPop, SONiVOX, Sprint Nextel, Synaptics, TAT - The Astonishing Tribe, Telecom Italia, Telefónica, Texas Instruments, T-Mobile, Wind River.
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see that's the list of people who are no longer happy at playing silly buggers to M$...
 
If anyone was in any doubt about how important this is, look at the names: HTC, LG, Motorola, eBay (Skype), Sprint, Intel, China Mobile, Samsung etc, etc.

These are global industry leaders and if they're fully behind a free, open source Google OS ('Android'), Microsoft have got to be shitting themselves (as should Palm, RIM, Apple etc etc).
 
I guess that the biggest "feature" or thing that Google will bring to the table will be --search--. Searching for contacts, numbers, sms or what ever is on your phone. As phones get more complicated or are able to do more there will be more to search.

There are chaps at work that refuse to use any other facility than google desktop. Some poor bloke has 20k+ of emails and god know how many files.

Maybe even linking your phone's "account" to a desktop or gmail account.

Google's Android software will be provided to handset makers free of charge and could lead to a price war for operating system licenses and potentially cheaper handsets.
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... and advertising. just a leeedle bit ;-)

Edited to ad:-
A development tool kit for working on the new platform will be released next week.
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:-) bandwidth time :-)
 
I wonder how this affects MSs play into the Unfied Comms market?

I can't see Avaya or Cisco being that bothered about using an open source software to achieve the true UC architecture - MS I can.
 
Great quote from some wag on Engadget:

Oh my god. These extremely long letters to Palm are the absolute best. Its like reading about one of those horrible celebrity break-ups where they keep trying to get back together and then break up again and air all the dirty laundry in court.
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editor said:
If anyone was in any doubt about how important this is, look at the names: HTC, LG, Motorola, eBay (Skype), Sprint, Intel, China Mobile, Samsung etc, etc.

These are global industry leaders and if they're fully behind a free, open source Google OS ('Android'), Microsoft have got to be shitting themselves (as should Palm, RIM, Apple etc etc).
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we agree :eek:

jesus have you been hit by a firework?

have I?
:D
 
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