Google Phone

[Admin]

So today the 800Lbs Gorilla that is Google launch there phone today to take on the big boys in the cell phone market. Will it be able to take on Apple, Nokia etc and win

[DaveC65]

Does it come with a backpack sized battery to run all the apps?

[parmenion]

Saw some photos on stuff, but it just seems to be a rebranded HTC phone (see the photo of the back of the phone), so not sure what all the media fuss is about, they're just bunging their logo on someone else's phone.

Nothing innovative in simply selling someone else's hardware, just a way to get more revenue share.

[suspect]

kinda ignorant statements, it is of course an HTC, but the OS is by google.
thats what the media fuss is about, its called Android and is a rival of the version of OSX running on the iphone, Android is linux based and therefore open source, which basically means it doesnt need to be 'jailbroken' to get all the cool features that are on iphones.
they might be just 'bunging their logo on somebody elses hardware' but to say theres nothing innovative about the Android operating system is a plainly foolish statement, its the OS that youre really buying, the previous big googlephone was on motorola hardware, the choice of HTC this time round will merely be about quality/price.

ironically a quick google search would have appraised you of these facts.

p.s. id skip gorilla and get a nexus one, its easily gunna blow the iphone outta the water on both price and function, oh and batterylife is not a problem ,two days normal use i think is average? unlike the iphone the battery is user replacable.

[Admin]

p.s. id skip gorilla and get a nexus one

What is gorilla?

[suspect]

  hah, i thought it must be the name of a phone they were launching here, since every phone seems to have 2 or 3 names depending what market its in, with names like tattoo ban magic it seemed to fit in, lol, shame.

[Admin]

800Lbs Gorilla is a term i used and have done for a few decades now, just meaning no one can fuck with it.

And IT, I meaning "Google"

 

[parmenion]

kinda ignorant statements, it is of course an HTC, but the OS is by google.
thats what the media fuss is about, its called Android and is a rival of the version of OSX running on the iphone, Android is linux based and therefore open source, which basically means it doesnt need to be 'jailbroken' to get all the cool features that are on iphones.
they might be just 'bunging their logo on somebody elses hardware' but to say theres nothing innovative about the Android operating system is a plainly foolish statement, its the OS that youre really buying, the previous big googlephone was on motorola hardware, the choice of HTC this time round will merely be about quality/price.

ironically a quick google search would have appraised you of these facts.

p.s. id skip gorilla and get a nexus one, its easily gunna blow the iphone outta the water on both price and function, oh and batterylife is not a problem ,two days normal use i think is average? unlike the iphone the battery is user replacable.

Nope, I think you've missed the point.

This is about the new phone (i.e. piece of hardware) that Google have recently launched. Not their Android OS. Android has been out for a while now and has been already done to death in the media, and it has been available on more than just Motorola hardware for a while as well (you can buy the HTC Magic from Vodafone for fucks sake).

So go back and do some more googling, read whats actually said and you might figure this IS actually about the physical device being sold as the Google phone.

The big deal is all the hype that Google, who until now only did a mobile OS, have supposedly produced their own physical device (like Apple and the iPhone) - even though it actually appears to have been made by HTC.