Google Nexus Rumored To Cost $530 Or $180 w/Plan

wkurzius writes "The new Google phone, the Nexus One, is rumored to cost $530 unlocked and will work on any GSM network. A subsidized version is also available for $180 and will get you a T-Mobile Even More Individual 500 Plan for 2-years with a $350 termination fee. Access to the phone is supposed to be invite only at first, with January 5th being the supposed release date."

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eat my shorts slashdot you too google !!

[Anonymous Coward]

Eat my shorts slashdot you too google !!

Hello

[Anonymous Coward]

Alright gentlemen, I've seem to have gotten myself into another bind. Allow me to explain. Seems my boss here is extremely long-winded and is a "time eater." He constantly ambles by my desk and postulates about all of his project load and how I can best assist him.

Well today took the proverbial cake. I had just chugged two Monster drinks and was in dire need of a restroom break to relieve myself. Not wanting to appear rude I allowed my boss to continue his diatribe to the point where my torso started to cramp up. By the time he was nearly finished I couldn't hold it in any longer. And accidentally urinated myself.

So here I now sit, with my agenda binder covering my lap and an unsightly dark stain on my trousers. And my boss is still hovering down the hall between myself and the restroom.

Any suggestions on how to most craftily make an escape and not draw attention to myself? The worst part of the scenario is that I had an asparagus omlette for breakfast so my scent is most foul...

Re:Very disappointing

[Anonymous Coward]

There is also the fact that Android is nowhere as secure as the iPhone. Unless someone commits a terroristic act and jailbreaks their iPhone, Apple's security on the device is effectively 100%. There is no such thing as a malicious app on the iPhone because Apple has a real security model.

Re:In what way is an Android phone more limiting?

[SuperKendall]

So a Linux-based device using X that supports both Qt and GTK2 toolkits is somehow a dead-end OS?

Nokia's variant, yes. It's a dead-end branch. Linux itself will of course survive but in the future you'll be the one porting any improvements.

If and only if you root the thing.

That's only IF you want to do a handful of things that require rooting. There are a great number of applications you can write that do not require doing so.

All the applications I really need are available under the GPL already, and can be ported to the N900 with far less effort than it would take to port them to the iPhone or Android.

I can BUY the applications today on Android. And I can assure you as a full-time mobile developer that migrating applications written for the desktop is not nearly so easy as you make it seem.

The N900 is really well built and designed. It's just they are not with the future as far as where mobile OS's are going. Nokia will be switching to Android soon as well (not news, but a prediction). I'd say about a year as the market share shrinks dramatically.