Signs of Android Life

Posted by Marshall Sponder on September 22, 2008 | Link It

Yeah, this demo of Android‘s capabilities make me wonder if I should have waited a little longer before moving from TMobile to ATT (so I could get an iPhone).  I’m referring to Read Write/Web’s review of a prototype Android Phone – see RWW Predictions: Google’s Android vs. Apple’s iPhone.

To be honest, I don’t think the new TMobile Android phone will have all the features shown in the video clip, below, but it goes give pause – see Android: Google’s Dream, Apple’s Nightmare? in Time Magazine today.

The biggest departure from the iPhone design is the inclusion of a physical keyboard, which apparently slides out from underneath the Dream’s touchscreen. The Dream will also allow users to run multiple applications at once and more easily share contacts and data between them. And if reports from developers TIME interviewed prove true, mobile-phone users will finally be able to cut and paste text in emails — a function that’s frustratingly absent on the iPhone. The Dream, which is expected to go on sale in late October, will also reportedly cost the same as the 3G: $199.

Had I known this, had T Mobile had their act together, I would have waited and maybe got the Dream instead of the iPhone.   Oh well, it’s like ….. measuring Apples against … well…. Dreams…hmm…

Fact of the matter, what Apple has created with the iPhone, it’s technological advantage, is now, more or less, erased, with Google‘s Android Platform.

It’s a fact of life that any advancement, via Technology, is copyable – I’m sure Apple has it sewn up with Branding and Entertainment.

And Interestingly, while the 3G Iphone runs at 600 MHZ, according to this clip, the phone running Android, was running at 300 MHZ and drew screens and allowed Voice and Data to be active at the same time (not sure the iPhone does that).

Again, an interesting read.

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