Comments on: Google to unveil 'Android' phone software

Company expected to reveal plans for mobile phones, announce a new consortium of some 30 heavy hitters in the wireless industry, sources tell CNET News.com.

[ARHYTHMATIK]

truth

SOMETHING else is needed in the mobile phone industry-- especially with all the converged devices coming about. Windows Mobile is cumbersome to use, buggy, and just darn right un-reliable. Blackberry's are great, and getting better-- but extremely limited in their capabilities currently. Sidekicks have the greatest OS ever made, but the most limited capabilites of any QWERTY phone due to the device being locked to the catalog and open for developers only. Nokia I think has some potential with upcoming devices like the N810, but their other convergent devices either don't have QWERTY keyboards, or don't have cell chips and rely on wifi. There is a huge hole there that somebody needs to fill, and Google would be the perfect one.

[billmosby]

Money isn't everything...

"And when you've got practically unlimited amounts of money,
finding the things you don't have is somewhat easier."

That doesn't always give you an advantage over someone else who
already has a better idea and who has been working on putting
pieces together much longer.

[James Katt]

iPhone brings copy cats

The iPhone already is where other phone companies and Google
wants to go. A consortium, however, just like Linux phones,
cannot create the user interface and interaction and integration
that a single company, like Alpple, can do. Nor can it move as
quickly. While some people wait for the Android phone, I play with
my iPhone. Yeah!

[DoughboyNJ]

don't play in the big waves

if you're short

what google is doing is completely unrelated to your pretty little phone.

what google is offering to do is to create a standardized "desktop" for both the hardware manufacturers to write to and the cell phone carriers to take advantage of.

the fact that they are reaching out to the Japanese cos is a sign they want to "mature" the US cell phone market. and find a way to make money for themselves in the middle.

by the way, apple is acting just every other carrier today, by locking down their phones to modification and stifling innovation. what good is the beauty and sleekness if it is so locked down.

my dorky palm might not be the prettiest or most powerful thing on the planet, but the 20-odd applications i've installed totally customize the thing into a very useful tool - for work and for play.

google is acting as an enabler to innovation, like java and linux. i say more power to them.

let's see where it leads before we write them off, huh?

[Rimer]

The iPhone

Its like you said, a pretty little interface and some tools, but in the long run it does not do anything all to new in the phone software industry and as someone else said, Google is acting as an enabler which is better then any other company producing mobile software can say.

I use Windows Mobile and still wish there was more apps and in the long run they don't make it easy for dev's just like Apple.

[iBuzz]

Call your girlfriend for a date & get restaurant ads!

<sarcasm>
Yes! I want Google software on my phone so that not only can
Google record what I do on the 'net with my phone, but also,
through GPS, know where I am at all times. It will also be great
when Google keeps track of whom I call and who calls me! And,
eventually with voice recognition, Google will be able to
eavesdrop on my phone calls and serve me up ads based on my
phone conversations... all right to my phone!

Yes... sign me up! Sounds like a wonderful future!
</sarcasm>

Maybe "Eve" would be a better name for this software... as in
"Eavesdrop." All brought to you by the brilliant minds at Google.
Google... we're listening.

[billmosby]

But, but... they "do no evil"

Right?

[ceoballmer]

ZunePhone Coming!

ZunePhone Getting Closer, Closer, Closer, ....
ZunePhone, ZunePhone, ZunePhone, ZunePhone, ........
That's all I seem to hear from everybody where ever I go! As I
told you people back in July, "ZunePhone is getting closer!" It's
closer than it was back then by several months.
I can confirm that among the massive feature list of the "ZuP"
(as I like to call it) will be:

4g Network capability
FM Radio
Clock
Lo-res GPS
Terra-Server DirectAccess
WhisperPhone Technology
Volume Control
SilverLight Animation
IE 8 (Light Edition)
IndirectBuy Technology
Micropedia

The list goes on and on and on .......
That's why it's taking us so long, we are doing this the Microsoft
way! RIGHT!
Sure Apple sent over their little snitches and sneak-thieves and
stole our ZuP Alpha Mock ups (which they used to make the
iPhone), but we will let that slide.
http://****************.blogspot.com
Get the "Real Thing!" Zup! Coming closer, closer, closer, closer,
clo...........

[dargon19888]

Interesting Reading but not quite "new"....

Nokia is introducing an 810N "tablet" based on the Linux OS. While not a "phone",it could be. So if there exists a Linux OS based "phone", its possible to see a Google 'android' phone real soon.

[WJeansonne]

Big Yawn.

This is revolutionary? If it runs on Linux can't me out. I'll stick to Windows Mobile 6 thank you very much.

[imacpwr]

Google spending BILLIONS but it's still only a search engine..!!

Seems several times a week we read ANOTHER article about Google
trying to do this or that and spending billions in the process but
when it comes right down to it, when you ask anyone who or what
Google does the answer's always the same, "search engine". That's
all they've done with any success up to this point..

[letraspedia]

Everybody with phone software

Everybody is trying to create phone software.
Will be the next generation of machines most used?
Kallos - http://www.letraspedia.com

[Nuance Communications]

Nuance

?Nuance joined the Open Handset Alliance with other industry leaders to grow the entire mobile ecosystem,? said Steve Chambers, president, mobile and consumer services division, Nuance Communications. ?We?re committed to apply our strength and leadership in voice-based search and messaging to move the market forward. By packaging and optimizing embedded speech technology components for open source distribution, we?ve given developers the opportunity to access speech solutions through open APIs using the Android platform and to easily upgrade to new, more advanced speech features as well. We believe deep collaboration with members of the Alliance will grow our core mobile business and fuel the proliferation of speech-enabled applications worldwide.?

[JoshuaB86]

OHAdev.org

http://www.ohadev.org Given the recent news of the "g-phone" and the Open Handset Alliance. A new website has been launched to facilitate coordination between developers who intend to use the "Android SDK" from google.

please visit: http://www.ohadev.org

[TexasMark]

Android is interesting

I for once am very excited about Android. I have been talking with other devs, the consensus is that open is good, and once more examples of what Android can do become available on http://androidwiki.com/ I think people will see it is a viable competitor to existing solutions.

[kylelnny]

Google is going to offer more mobile features

Google will offer more mobile features to current mobile networks but as far as cutting service fees and affecting network coverages I feel it is not going to happen. To find out more go to [http://www.googleandriodnetwork.com]

Sincerely
Kyle Lnny

[xtagged]

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