Re: [MLUG] Google's New Phone

["Christian M. Cepel" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I really want one.  It has a swappable battery and that's one thing I 
hate about the Apple devices...but some things really concern me:

1. you can't tether it.

2. they don't specify if it's connectible to your PC via USB like most 
smart phones (let alone charge from USB).

3. There's no Headphone jack.. what the heck?   Why have a smartphone 
with storage and MP3 capability if you don't have a headphone jack... 
and apparently it doesn't sync with bluetooth headsets.

4. The camera doesn't natively do video (but people can write apps to do it)

5. No Exchange support

6. People have said that there are no gestures (multi-point), but I've 
seen video demo where they do multi-point... what's the deal.

7. What's the situation with memory.  Who in their right mind would put 
1gb when MicroSD cards are so cheap and I think currently up to 4gb.  
I've seen that it has a 'memory slot' but nowhere can I find what 
form-factor/protocol that slot is.  Some things I've seen suggest that 
it's not swappable but something you pay $50 more to have them put 8gb 
in, so if you envision having a little wallet of 8gb cards with your 
music collection on them, forget it.   That really irritates me about 
the Iphone and now about this phone.

8.  It seems they are lying about the price.   $179 if you're already a 
TMobile customer who's 2-year contract is ending if you extend another 2 
years.  $300 for everyone else (+$50 for the mem) and a 2 year service 
agreement.

9. T-Mobile.. 80 Cities compared to nearly 300 with Cingular/ATT.  They 
claim that after 90 days you can switch sims and use your own G3 
Provider... however... you're stuck in your contract for another 1..75 
years.  Also they don't mention that the G3 network frequencies that 
T-Mobile operate on are different than those of ATT.

10. no support for Apple/Itunes DRM.

11. Android doesn't want to pay royalties so no Flash (and similar).

12. Swappable batteries, but as of yet, nobody has said what the 
batteries cost.

Mike Miller wrote:
> It runs the Android OS, based on Linux, so I guess it belongs on this 
> list...
>
> Here it is:
>
> David Pogue: "A First Look at Google's New Phone"
> http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/a-first-look-at-googles-new-phone/
>
> Related stuff...
>
> NY Times has a new blog called "bits":
> http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/
>
> NY Times also updated their tech pages:
> http://www.nytimes.com/technology/
>
> There are several articles on those pages about the new Google phone.
>
> Mike
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