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Google Unveils First Android Phone

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the can-you-hear-me-now dept.

danieltdp writes "Google finally officially launched the first Android-enabled mobile device to hit the market. As expected, the first Android phone will be the HTC Dream (also known as the T-Mobile G1), a device with a large touchscreen and a slide-out physical keypad that will run Google's new mobile platform." You might also not be at all surprised to know that Google is working on an Android competitor to the Apple App store.

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  1. Competitor to App Store... by Tickenest · · Score: 0, Troll

    Apple's not worried about this one. If Google tries to launch it, Apple will just shut it down the same way they shut down everything else that competes with their apps.

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  2. Re:Apple fanbois by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 0, Troll

    You aren't a fanboi. A fanboi is someone who follows someone or something without question and without financial compensation. You sound like someone who likes Apple's products. There is a difference.

    This forum would be a lot less noisy if more people made that distinction. I, personally, would like to have an iPhone. I have an iPod Touch. It's great, its useful, its limitations suck but I can still get my value out of it. But... because I don't plan on leaving the country so I don't give a flying fuck about it being unlocked, I'm a 'fanboy'. Whatever.

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  3. Re:Apple fanbois by tyrione · · Score: 0, Troll

    You aren't a fanboi. A fanboi is someone who follows someone or something without question and without financial compensation. You sound like someone who likes Apple's products. There is a difference.

    This forum would be a lot less noisy if more people made that distinction. I, personally, would like to have an iPhone. I have an iPod Touch. It's great, its useful, its limitations suck but I can still get my value out of it. But... because I don't plan on leaving the country so I don't give a flying fuck about it being unlocked, I'm a 'fanboy'. Whatever.

    Let me guess. Your idea of a limitation for a Music Player is that it doesn't allow Wifi Skype to make phone calls?