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Google has designed an Android-based handset that it intends to sell directly to consumers, according to multiple reports.As recently as October 30, Google had flatly denied that it was "making hardware" or that it would "compete with its customers" by offering its own phone. But it would seem the web search outfit/world power was merely playing with words. On Saturday morning, the Mountain View Chocolate Factory admitted the existence of its own "concept" Android phone and confirmed reports from the previous evening that it had shared the device with company employees.
f G were to crash and burn for whatever reason ( Bad Publicity, Government Intervention or Whatever ) That data they have on all of us is worth a fortune and would get them through hard times, so those that say Never should always remember the saying NEVER SAY NEVER.
There have been more bank failures than Google failures in the last year. Let's hope the bank regulators don't auction off the insolvent banks' customer data to the highest bidders.
I don't know why everyone is worried about Google and privacy. Microsoft has a 15-year head start on Google in the snooping department. Remember when Windows 95 was introduced with Internet software built into Windows for the first time, and--according to the forums of the day--everyone knew that Microsoft was secretly planning to download the contents of everyone's hard drives? (If you scanned any naughty postcards between 1995 and the present, you can bet that the folks in Redmond have been passing those TIFFs or JPEGs around the office.)
Sorry, but I feel this phone might well be another fizzle.
The power of advertising, a good pr company and lots of cash does go a long way it seems...
Another reason to avoid joining the Google bandwagon
Joe Public thinks Apple products give him status.
Geeky Webmaster thinks Google products give him geeky status.
All the same.
How about free phone service for the display of ads?
I think getting users to engage in PPC-type mobile ads will be difficult. I think the lack of "in-your-face advertising" is part of the beauty users see in the mobile web.
getting a mental image...
someone searching for a new restaurant on their mobile...
...then a graphic ad featuring belly fat or yellow teeth pops up :)
Remember when Windows 95 was introduced with Internet software built into Windows for the first time, and--according to the forums of the day--everyone knew that Microsoft was secretly planning to download the contents of everyone's hard drives? (If you scanned any naughty postcards between 1995 and the present, you can bet that the folks in Redmond have been passing those TIFFs or JPEGs around the office.)
wait, what?....... please say you don't actually believe that.
No, but a surprising number of people did. Paranoia existed in the horse-and-buggy days of the 1990s, too.
Mind you, nobody ever explained what Microsoft was going to do with all the data that it supposedly was downloading from people's hard drives. The same goes for Google's smart phone: Too much data, too little time. :-) (Not to mention the fact that the user's locations, calls, etc. are being tracked by an independent, unbundled phone carrier, not by Google or by a carrier partner like Apple's AT&T.)
All I know is that when I switched from my blackberry (used them for 4 years) to my myTouch (Android OS), my PC-usage dropped by probably 40% within a week and it has not returned. I simply do not need to use my PC or laptop as much. I'd call that disruptive.
Bingo.
You nailed it right on the head.
Only 2 real choices at the moment which is the iPhone and Android and thanks to iPhone using AT&T exclusively it easily narrows the choice to just Android for anyone that has ever had to suffer on AT&T in the past.
sure smartphones can do alot of stuff but they arn't exactly the 1st thing i whip out when im thinking "its productivity time"
sure smartphones can do alot of stuff but they arn't exactly the 1st thing i whip out when im thinking "its productivity time"
In developing countries, even dumb phones can be used to deliver knowledge and services in places where conventional Internet access isn't affordable or available. See THE ECONOMIST's article, "Beyond Voice [economist.com]," which describes such things as the "Farmer's Friend" service in Uganda (which, according to the article, is one of several services for the country's rural population that were launched a few months ago by a consortium that included Google).
Think what could be done with an unlocked smart phone like the Nexus in African, Asian, or South American villages that are already using old-style mobile phones to good advantage. A phone like the Nexus could fit in quite nicely with Google's avowed mission of "organizing the world's information and makin it universally accessible."
sure smartphones can do alot of stuff but they arn't exactly the 1st thing i whip out when im thinking "its productivity time"
I answer customer email, moderate pending submissions to my site, do some site maintenance, login to servers via SSH and do some admin work when needed, online banking & bill pay, maybe write a blog post, etc.
As a matter of fact, I even moderate my WebmasterWorld forums remotely!
When I find myself sitting in the airport, doctors office, waiting for a lunch date, or any other time wasting event like sitting in fully stopped unmoving traffic waiting for an accident to clear, I just whip out the phone and get some work done.
Not that it's quite so easy on the little keyboard, that's why I'm waiting for the drivers so I can use the virtual laser keyboard. ;)
