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T-Mobile To Launch Android Tablet

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the that's-one-big-ass-iphone dept.

nandemoari writes "T-Mobile is planning to use Google's open source operating system 'Android' on devices that blur the line between cellphone and home PC. In addition, Samsung says they will also produce Android phones, but need to work out the kinks first. Both announcements come shortly after HP revealed that it is investigating the idea of using Android to power some of its low-cost netbook computers in place of Windows."

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  1. Orthogonal by Pentalon · · Score: 5, Funny

    > ... that blur the line between cellphone and home PC.

    I always wanted a desktop cellphone.

  2. Re:Why Not Existing Phones? Am I Missing Something by Red+Flayer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can't we take an already popular model (like the Chocolate or Razr or whatever the devil it is the kids consume these days) and just compile it down to match the architecture and write the drivers for the devices on the phone?

    1. Joe Sixpack is gonna use whatever OS is on the device they buy.

    2. Commercial driver support is needed for this to avoid the hell that linux drivers can become.

    People using Android on a phone do not want to mess with the OS on their appliance. For adoption to happen, people must have a smooth transition, and a cobbled-together Android distro for $HARDWARE will turn off a lot of potential users.

    That said, do you really want an Android with a Razor? What could it possible need to shave?!.

    Or an Android with a Chocolate, or a Blackberry? My wife would leave me in a second for a robot that takes orders and comes bearing sweets.

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    "Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
  3. Re:Is this a good idea? by AHuxley · · Score: 1, Funny

    If a woman needs to use a computer, she just seduces a 20 something... and gets any task done correctly and for free.
    Thats where a few years of seduction experience is more useful than a 20 something's decade in moms basement.
    Woman can seduce their way onto any OS or system or network.
    Woman programme you and get to enjoy bags of any size.

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    Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
  4. Re:Why Not Existing Phones? Am I Missing Something by zobier · · Score: 2, Funny

    My wife would leave me in a second for a robot that takes orders and comes bearing sweets.

    Fortunately for you I'm already married -- what's that honey... OK, I'll have it ready in a minute -- GTG.

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    Me lost me cookie at the disco.