T-Mobile To Launch Android Tablet

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."

Comments

Re:hmmmm

[binarylarry]

No, nobody is as lame as Verizon.

Re:Why Not Existing Phones? Am I Missing Something

[miknix]

It's my understanding that Android is a mobile OS based in Linux [wikipedia.org] so why do we need to feature new phones? 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?

The motorola razr2 v8 already comes with Linux:
https://opensource.motorola.com/sf/projects/razr2v8

Re:Why Not Existing Phones? Am I Missing Something

[milas]

Cellphone specifications are usually very closed. However, since HTC makes the T-Mobile G1, and its internals are very similar to HTC's other smartphones, it has been ported to some of them, although it is still a work in progress.

Re:WTF are you talking about????

[Ihmhi]

The problem isn't that "Google wins", but that "the people trying to sell you a new phone & contract lose".