It would be a great time to develop a standards-based dock/charger platform so we could drop our phones/tablets into an adaptor and have them display on a large monitor and accept standard USB peripherals.
Not USB. I want a BlueTooth keyboard & mouse.
I'll accept an HDMI monitor connection for now (some phones have HDMI already), but eventually that should be wireless as well.
When that happens, I'll have no need for a laptop.
Verizon won't discriminate between Hulu and Netflix or Amazon video downloads. They'll all download at the same rate - so slow as to be unusable, or at least so slow as to make Verizon's pay per view an attractive alternative, because Verizon sells video downloads and will have that incentive.
The agreement means that Verizon won't be able to give their own video downloads an advantage like you describe.
"we will do whatever makes us the most money regardless of the damage it causes."
In what way do you believe that your scenario (giving Verizon PPV an advantage over other video services like YouTube) helps Google make more money?
Ever since they switched to Teleatlas, it was a step backwards.
Google no longer uses Teleatlas in the U.S. They now create their own mapping data generated from StreetView information. A search for "google teleatlas" will give you lots of articles discussing this recent (~ 1 year) change.
Gee, putting charging stations everywhere doesn't sound expensive, and I suppose they should raise taxes to pay for all of this?
Cmon now, think like a capitalist. You can charge for use of that charging station! It can be offered as a perk of working at that company, or visiting that mall. The government doesn't necessarily have to do it.
Wait. You're saying that the same public that made movies about the dangers of cancer involved with living to close to power lines is going to happy drive next to an inductor that is emitting enough magnetic flux to power a car?
If you are constantly charging during the entire drive, you don't need a fast charge. It should requires no more electric power than what's carried in the electric lines that are running through the walls of your house right now.
These same people will happily put radiation devices up to their heads several times a day just to talk to friends & relatives. I think they'll be fine with induction charging. It would also be fine to have a single lane with charging capabilities, and only install them where the road goes through sparsely-populated areas.
This might be a good second or third car, but it's not that practical as your main vehicle, and the fact that an electric vehicle must be charged nightly limits it to only being useful to homes with garages.
Sure... currently. I wouldn't get this as my main vehicle. But an electric is perfect for my commuting vehicle. Especially if I can convince my employer to offer charging in our parking garage.
Also, you need to think a little more long-term. If electrics start to become popular with the commuter crowd, then we'll see infrastructure developed to help support them. Cities will install charging stations in various parking spaces. I can imagine that one day we'll have major coast-to-coast highways with full-length induction charging available. Imagine being able to drive your electric car from New York to San Francisco, non-stop! You can't do that in a gas-fueled vehicle.
I can't believe the father quit his job over this. Does he really think this is really gonna support his family in 5 years time?
Dude, if you had a one-time opportunity to earn $150k, wouldn't you consider quitting your job for a year or so to make it happen? You can always get another job when that opportunity stops paying dividends.
Android is pretty much Google's effort at doing to the smartphone what Microsoft did to the PC.
Bingo.
I wish more people understood this. Google doesn't want to build or sell cell phones. They don't care if Nexus One becomes a best seller. All they want to do is force the smartphone platform into being useful, open, cheap, and fast. "Why would they do that?", do you ask? Because then more people are using the internet more of the time, and when they do they often use Google.
Google sometimes tries to make their own things better. But just as often, they try to make the entire internet better, and count on the "rising tide lifts all boats" aspect to help themselves and others.
especially the tracking that is inherent in their Chrome browser.
For more information about what information is tracked in Chrome, including instructions for disabling many of those features, read the Google Chrome Privacy Notice.
If anybody else needs help moving there stuff off of google, be sure to read through the Data Liberation Front. It's an attempt to document methods for moving your data out of (and into) various Google products.
If you buy the phone on a contract, you pay $80 a month. If you buy the phone without a contract, you still pay $80 a month.
That's no longer true. T-mobile introduced no-contract plans last year that cost less, but don't include a subsidized phone. This is what I'm using. (2-line family plan with 500 shared minutes and unlimited data & texting, for $110)
One of the benefits of electric cars will be maintenance. There's basically one big moving part - the electric motor. The volt punts that advantage away by including an internal combustion engine. This is the type of compromise that should have saved a lot of money (using a cheap ICE to extend range instead of adding even more expensive batteries), yet the Volt is expected to cost a lot more than the all-electric Nissan Leaf. Plus I'd still have to deal with oil changes & the occasional trip to the gas station (you'll have to run that motor now & then just to keep seals from drying out and the gasoline from gelling in the tank).
It'll be interesting to see if this compromise pays off for Chevy. I'm betting that the Leaf will end up being more successful.
Why can't Google offer a cell phone that provides browsing, etc via WiFi, WITHOUT REQUIRING ME TO HAVE A CARRIER DATA PLAN?
I used my G1 for an entire year without a data plan. It worked wonderfully whenever wifi was available, and I would get upsell messages in my browser whenever wifi was not available. I could send & receive text messages too, but I had to pay 10 cents for each one.
Read those support forum posts with a grain of salt. There's a lot of mis-information in there. During initial phone setup, you need to skip the google registration process (it won't be able to contact google servers due to the lack of a data connection). Then you configure your wifi connection, and finally attempt to access gmail to continue the registration process. So it's not very obvious how to do it, but it can be done.
A note for Google Voice (and other voicemail service) users, T-Mobile has in addition to your normal bucket of minutes, an additional 500 min bucket that is used if you set your voice to forward another voicemail provider.
Wait a minute. Does anybody have more information about this? You mean I can double my monthly minutes by using a different voicemail provider? Is there documentation of this feature?
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Not USB. I want a BlueTooth keyboard & mouse.
I'll accept an HDMI monitor connection for now (some phones have HDMI already), but eventually that should be wireless as well.
When that happens, I'll have no need for a laptop.
Nah, it's just things that middle-aged white men like.
Now get off my lawn, sonny!
Do they know about book.com?
No book in that name. I'm safe!
Sigh. I miss that show.
The agreement means that Verizon won't be able to give their own video downloads an advantage like you describe.
In what way do you believe that your scenario (giving Verizon PPV an advantage over other video services like YouTube) helps Google make more money?
Very poorly thought-out troll. No cookie for you.
Google no longer uses Teleatlas in the U.S. They now create their own mapping data generated from StreetView information. A search for "google teleatlas" will give you lots of articles discussing this recent (~ 1 year) change.
Yep, all those birds carrying flashlights are just feasting on shrimp now!
Cmon now, think like a capitalist. You can charge for use of that charging station! It can be offered as a perk of working at that company, or visiting that mall. The government doesn't necessarily have to do it.
If you are constantly charging during the entire drive, you don't need a fast charge. It should requires no more electric power than what's carried in the electric lines that are running through the walls of your house right now.
These same people will happily put radiation devices up to their heads several times a day just to talk to friends & relatives. I think they'll be fine with induction charging. It would also be fine to have a single lane with charging capabilities, and only install them where the road goes through sparsely-populated areas.
Sure... currently. I wouldn't get this as my main vehicle. But an electric is perfect for my commuting vehicle. Especially if I can convince my employer to offer charging in our parking garage.
Also, you need to think a little more long-term. If electrics start to become popular with the commuter crowd, then we'll see infrastructure developed to help support them. Cities will install charging stations in various parking spaces. I can imagine that one day we'll have major coast-to-coast highways with full-length induction charging available. Imagine being able to drive your electric car from New York to San Francisco, non-stop! You can't do that in a gas-fueled vehicle.
I can't believe the father quit his job over this. Does he really think this is really gonna support his family in 5 years time?
Dude, if you had a one-time opportunity to earn $150k, wouldn't you consider quitting your job for a year or so to make it happen? You can always get another job when that opportunity stops paying dividends.
Parent is obviously one of the GCC developers.
Big Fucking Watch.
Bingo.
I wish more people understood this. Google doesn't want to build or sell cell phones. They don't care if Nexus One becomes a best seller. All they want to do is force the smartphone platform into being useful, open, cheap, and fast. "Why would they do that?", do you ask? Because then more people are using the internet more of the time, and when they do they often use Google.
Google sometimes tries to make their own things better. But just as often, they try to make the entire internet better, and count on the "rising tide lifts all boats" aspect to help themselves and others.
Is this astronaut planning on wearing stilts in space?
ribbit!
especially the tracking that is inherent in their Chrome browser.
For more information about what information is tracked in Chrome, including instructions for disabling many of those features, read the Google Chrome Privacy Notice.
If anybody else needs help moving there stuff off of google, be sure to read through the Data Liberation Front. It's an attempt to document methods for moving your data out of (and into) various Google products.
It'll never happen because the politicians use the tax code for control more than to raise funds.
That's no longer true. T-mobile introduced no-contract plans last year that cost less, but don't include a subsidized phone. This is what I'm using. (2-line family plan with 500 shared minutes and unlimited data & texting, for $110)
It'll be interesting to see if this compromise pays off for Chevy. I'm betting that the Leaf will end up being more successful.
I used my G1 for an entire year without a data plan. It worked wonderfully whenever wifi was available, and I would get upsell messages in my browser whenever wifi was not available. I could send & receive text messages too, but I had to pay 10 cents for each one.
Read those support forum posts with a grain of salt. There's a lot of mis-information in there. During initial phone setup, you need to skip the google registration process (it won't be able to contact google servers due to the lack of a data connection). Then you configure your wifi connection, and finally attempt to access gmail to continue the registration process. So it's not very obvious how to do it, but it can be done.
Wait a minute. Does anybody have more information about this? You mean I can double my monthly minutes by using a different voicemail provider? Is there documentation of this feature?
I just downloaded the Windows version. It has intro and intro music.