Unless Android is much leaner than the Brew OS on the Instinct and fully optimised to run efficiently on the hardware its a non starter. InstinctQ needs to have a faster CPU, more memory, a much larger screen, a better camera with flash, photo editing tools, screen lock during calls, A WEB BROWSER THAT WORKS, and useful apps on day one to be better than the Instinct (M800) and the S-30(M810). Unless it meets that bar of quality, its definitely a no go.

Android is definitely a promising and amazing OS to shake up the phone market, but lets not get crazy here. Samsung has to meet certain improvement bar from the first two Instincts for anyone to just go get the new one. Also, the support has to be much stronger, the apps need to be there. Until we see that, lets reserve judgement until some reviewers confirm or deny how good the phone really is.

If there is, I’d love it. Might even make me forget about the cancellation of the Lancaster…

Dpad, dedicated number row on the keyboard … could be _dreamy_. How big is that screen? and what resolution? If it’s at least as big as the G1′s (and they board is at least as comfortable as the G1′s), then I’d love that thing … on AT&T or T-Mobile.

I’d like to start by saying that I don’t think MacJ is 100% wrong, nor do I think he’s 100% correct. I don’t know if he intended to start a flame war (that’s certainly not what I want to do). However, I think many of the phones launching w/ Android in the immediate future are late responses to the iPhone 3G. I think we should all fear that in a year from now we’re going to start seeing responses to iPhone 3GS, while there would have been another iPhone launched that hardware manufacturers will evidently have to play catch up to……

As far as the OS is concerned, I do believe Android developers are working hard to innovate instead of playing catch up. I think the platform has already demonstrated abilities that exceed the iPhone OS. I think its the HARDWARE manufactureres who still kinda have this old school phone industry mindset & need to go more creative and less gimmicky…..

Now to get a little patriotic (and perhaps blasphemous), its an American company (Apple) that revolutionized the phone game as of late. It is largely American/North American companies (Google w/ Android; Palm w/ Pre & WebOS; RIM w/ Blackberries) near the top, upsetting what would have been a new status quo in the industry (iPhone). They are providing competition, innovation, creativity and a variety of options……

If I sounded Xenophobic, thats not my intent. I just feel there is a trend. Surprisingly and ironically, it is the international competition (the old new guys on the scene, hailing from formerly developing industrial countries) who are now at risk of becoming stale and have perhaps gotten too comfortable w/ business as usual. I think their world’s are being rocked. Sony lost over a Billion in the past year (look it up). Nokia’s lead is rapidly shrinking. Last year iPhones were being given away in Japan w/ new plans and in July of this year they are the top selling. Seriously, look it up……

But I don’t think this trend will hold. It’s probably going to prove to be a cycle. The rest of the world will learn how respond to Apple. The question is, how long will it take? Decades? A few years? Months? Android has an advantage in that hardware makers get to rapidly learn from the mistakes of other hardware makers. Sony Ericsson has a new president and a Monster phone in the Xperia X3 (Rachel), w/ a 1GHz processor, which w/ Android, SHOULD completely blow the iPhone 3GS out of the water. Acer has very similar prospects w/ its A1. Rob reported earlier that the Hero, a strong runner up, is being given a serum for its lag………

So yea, most of the very next batch of phones may very well fall short in the public’s eye. Reviews will very likely support the public view. But the future is bright for Android, given superior hardware. While the Apple picking season only comes once a year, the learning machine that is the Android style of licensing the OS to competing OEMs may inevitably rule the game, under a skynet like steal fist… err… sorry, i took a wrong turn there somewhere.

This would make it the first smartphone I could be interested in. Let’s wait and see… Maybe it also has a gigahertz processor?

This phone looks nice, but I’ve got my G1 for another 2 years or more… So I’m gonna try not to get too excited