HTC Dream (Android) Video Emerges

Barence writes "A video purporting to show the new Android-based handset from HTC has surfaced online. The video claims to show the HTC Dream, with its orientation sensor in action, automatically flipping the screen as the user changes from holding it horizontally to vertically. HTC announced earlier this month that it would be ready to release an Android handset before the end of the year, with speculation that this referred to the Dream handset."

Comments

Wow, it can take a signal from a sensor, and react

[bestinshow]

Yay, it can do what other smartphones have been doing for years.

Android is like Slashdot ... bringing you yesterday's stuff, today!

However I hope that it is good and hence successful, because nothing could be better than getting rid of the travesty of a mobile operating system that is Windows Mobile.

I still think that everyone is fighting around in a 2007-esque mobile phone marketplace, whilst Apple is providing a 2008-esque experience (with functionality holes, yes, but overall).

Re:THe video sucks

[Tony Hoyle]

..provided you don't actually want to do anything interesting with the phone.

And even if you do get past the SDK nazis at apple they can pull your app without warning.

Re:Wow, it can take a signal from a sensor, and re

[bestinshow]

Score 4: Insightful for basically saying that MobileMe isn't suitable for business use. I get -1: Troll for dissing Windows Mobile and not getting excited by an accelerometer rotating the display. What's going on with Slashdot?

Anyway, no shit sherlock re MobileMe's unsuitability for business use.

Why wouldn't you use the Exchange capability, presuming the phone had passed your companies compliance testing to be offered as an alternative to a Blackberry?

It's not like MobileMe is mandatory. It's an option, for consumers. It's push email for consumers, which is a major step forward for them.

At least remote wipe on an iPhone will wipe all the on-board memory of that proprietary data. Windows Mobile remote wipe? What, your data was on a memory card, and that card was removed from the device? Oh no!

Re:I Want To Want This

[MightyYar]

It runs Java, so there's none of this "you can program in any language you want, as long as your one of the ten people in the universe that uses Objective-C" crap.

There may be fewer Objective-C programmers than Java programmers, but there are a hell of a lot more Objective-C programs with a sensible GUI then Java programs.