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Predicting The Google Phone
An anonymous reader writes "Inside The GPhone: What To Expect From Google's Android Alliance (an article at Information Week) argues that you can predict what the GPhone(s) will look like very easily, simply by listing the technologies of the Open Handset Alliance partners. According to this theory, the phone will have a user interface from Sweden's TAT, VCAST-like multimedia capabilities powered by PacketVideo Corp., and an iPhone-like capacitive touch-screen, from Synaptics. Hardware-wise, it'll probably be built around Texas Instruments' OMAP processors, which enable a single-chip world phone (GSM/EDGE/GPRS). "While the GPhone won't be revolutionary, it'll connect the pieces in pleasantly new ways," argues author Alex Wolfe. Should Apple be concerned?"
Because maybe you should tell us about them too!
I always enjoying hearing about things people find disgusting or that they dislike.
Its so interesting!
Some of us got tired of hearing "Google" all the time well over a year ago...
The only thing that they have done well is figured out how to make very many $$$$$$ by being advertising middlemen on the Internet. Otherwise they are a gaggle of high-educated idiots.
I will agree that ease of use is important, and that apple products tend to do ok at this. But you have got to be fooling yourself if you think that the average n00b had any reason to other than fashion ditch their 8gb iPod in favor of a 20 40 80 whatever. sure they play video now, but I somehow doubt Joe sixpack is ready to pay $12,000 on iTunes, or even rip 12,000 of his own songs, or even use his pod as a usb drive to transfer files. The features, the convenience, the interface did NOT sell iPods. At least not to the average user in my experience. The distinctive earbuds are probably the most important feature in that device and I am not trying to be facetious. It is definatly more important to be seen with an iPod than it is to have one. Look at the commercials. Look at the Mac store. If you still say it is not about fashion first and technology second, I guess I lost ya. Beyond occasional searching for music to play a particular song, I have not really met anyone who needed a slick interface on their Music files, they just hit random and go. Not only that, but how many people bought an iPod because it was the greatest thing ever and N-E-V-E-R use it? Well the iPhone solves that problem by making a fashion sensitive device that you will use, for which you do need the functionality. If the iPhone was exactly an iPod with no new interface but with a simple cellphone built in, I believe the success would be very similar. The iPhone is a very good way to get people to pay monthly to be seen with the latest (or at least standard) slick gadget. It really is very smart from a fashion perspective.