Re: [MLUG] Google's New Phone

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

I bought my wife a 8gb iPhone on Friday.   I have to say, it's simply 
magnetic, even with the obvious annoyances like the touch-screen 
keyboard.  I expected it but it didn't make it any easier to swallow 
that my unlimited datapackage with my Blackjack for $20 would not work 
with the new phone and we're gonna have to cough up $30 to cover her 
phone.  I haven't check the policy but I'm fairly certain that, unlike 
my unlimited data package which covered all three phones on our account, 
they'll probably force us to play $30 for each iPhone on the account.  
I'm up for equipment upgrade in 25 days and I don't know what I'm going 
to do.  I want the G1 but there's no way I'm leaving ATT for 
T-what-a-joke-mobile.  I want the keyboard.  I want the ability to 
upgrade the memory and swap multiple batteries.  I consider the 16gb 
static battery restrictions of the iPhone to simply be a joke.

I tell you what's really really pissing me off is that Apple seems to 
have used a different specialized little white USB cable for every 
device they make.  This is a cable that has 4 data conductors and 
ground/common/shield.  It literally makes me sick.

However... that being said... in 25 days, I'll probably buy a 16gb 
iPhone... I don't see that I have any alternatives and I'm not going 
back to a phone with a small screen, no wifi, no touchscreen, no 'real' 
integrated mp3 capability, and the half-assed and expensive expansion 
software availability with 
hit-or-miss-if-your-phone-processor-or-java-or-whatever supports under 
WM6 or PalmOS, or similar.

I don't like not having alternatives.  I don't like the fact that ATT 
turned down the G1.  I don't like the way I feel I'm over a barrel with 
these companies.

Did I mention that ATT doesn't offer any sort of insurance on the 
iPhone?  I could have insured my blackjack, but they never told me (it 
was added after I bought mine), so I did not... I would have in a second.

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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