Android Robot Charger For SciPhone
| by Rob Jackson on June 30th, 2009 |
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The vast majority of Android fans would take one look at the SciPhone G2 and think – “knockoff”. And you would be right in the worst way – the SciPhone isn’t really even an Open Source Android Phone and just a mobile OS that attempts to mimick a touch Android Phone.
The phone’s operating system is listed as “proprietory” but not all is lost: the SciPhone comes with an awesome robot charger.
Cute… but not $150 cute.
[DealXtreme via EngadgetMobile]
1. Jeremy wrote on June 30, 2009
Wow, how do they get away with that? The box appears to say with Google on it even.
2. gnur wrote on June 30, 2009
Even weirder is, why wouldn`t they put android on it?
3. SciPhone N12 With Real Android | Android Phone Fans wrote on June 30, 2009
[...] morning we showed you the SciPhone Dream G2 phone which we only cared about because of the cool charger – the stupid thing doesn’t even run Android only a proprietary Android clone. But the [...]
4. G1 Fan wrote on July 3, 2009
The G1 A/C adapter has a 1.0 amp.
The Green Android USB Charger is .5 amp. It will charger SLOWER.
5. John wrote on August 23, 2009
The .5 is the USB standard specification rate. Same as in your PC. Charging a battery faster causes more heat and potentially a shorter battery life.
6. Weiman wrote on October 28, 2009
A reason not to put an ndroid on phone is it may be harder to do so with unsupported/buggy hardware, it is linux afterall and we all know the hardware woes w/ linux… you have to put in time to write device drivers for there… this company is trying to save money