Comments on: Android: 3 Questions, 3 Answers

By: cindi Reid

cindi Reid — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:21:03 +0000

The is not a comment, but a question. I want to by a G1, but I was told that you could not save pictures that are sent to you. Is that true and if so is there a program I could download to make that happen? This is the only reason I’m holding back from upgrading to one.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Cindi Ried

By: 4th Quarter Android Debut? | Android Phone Fans

4th Quarter Android Debut? | Android Phone Fans — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:21:26 +0000

[...] are finally unveiled? Nobody really knows, but Ashley had an amazing idea on our post called Android: 3 Questions, 3 Answers: “What I think phone carriers should offer is the ability to customize the phone that you [...]

By: phandroid.com

phandroid.com — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:48:27 +0000

That’s an awesome idea Ashley, I’m giving you credit on the upcoming post mentioning your “Dell” distribution model.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:07:33 +0000

Question 2 is one thing that I think that Google will struggle with. I am sure I can assume that people like us that visit this site at pretty savvy when it comes to computers, I have no doubt that “we” won’t have a problem with finding Android apps, but it is the casual user that I think we have a hard time in finding and downloading Android apps. What I think phone carriers should offer is the ability to customize the phone that you recieve initially, much like Dell’s online computer distribution.

So people could add and remove applications that they desired, and then you could have presets like a Myspace/Facebook customised Android phone full of social networking apps. A Multimedia Android phone with a video and audio players available from the home screen. Etc etc.

I think this also kind of fits the whole open source nature of the Android platform.

By: Barnabas Jones

Barnabas Jones — Sat, 31 May 2008 17:24:57 +0000

While I applaud the enthusiasm of your article, I must strongly disagree with its message:

Verizon and AT&T should not be forced to offer Android-equipped cellular phones, provided that Limo (and other Linux based OSes) is capable of running Android applications. I remember hearing that Android was a Linux distribution – meaning that it should adhere to the same set of rules that other Linux distributions stick to. If so, we should see applications on Android showing up on Limo.

By: Shane Isbell

Shane Isbell — Sat, 31 May 2008 04:09:51 +0000

Discovery and delivery of applications is not a hard problem to solve, as it has been done for years for other types of mobile content. At SlideME, we use OMA OTA for delivery, which is standard in the industry.

The hard part is getting visibility for developer’s applications. If Google, or whoever, opens up a mega-store, then how is the lowly developer going to get their application noticed among a repository that hosts professional applications from NFL, Disney and a multitude of others? This would just be the same old industry practice and very little would fundamentally change.

The angle at SlideME is to create social interactions between the end-users and developers that improve testing, feature requests and allow donations. With our client, there is as much focus on discovering high-quality developers as there is the applications themselves.