Comments on: Google Phone: Android Dogfood For Now

By: Malachi de AElfweald

Malachi de AElfweald — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:44:01 +0000

@Travis: I think that Google is working with HTC and AT&T to get an Android phone running on that network. AT&T is the only provider without an Android phone (though they do now have the Nook, so they aren’t totally Android-free!). That’s why you always hear these three companies (Google, HTC, and AT&T) in the same breath whenever this rumor comes up.

Actually, I have been running the ADP1 on AT&T for over a year now.

http://malsandroid.blogspot.com/2008/12/android-dev-phone-1-and-at.html

By: swehes

swehes — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:45:09 +0000

@Anthony
Looking at the other posts it seems so.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:15:52 +0000

I am a current T-Mobile, G1 user. I want to switch to AT&T, but want to keep the android operating system. Will this new phone be compatible with AT&T?

By: Manchild

Manchild — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:28:31 +0000

I sense an apology and a t-shirt headed my way.

By: BearsSuperfan

BearsSuperfan — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:13:56 +0000

This will take away 1/3 of the android pie from everyone else. GOOG will be the only phone vendor with advance knowledge of next OS features. Sneaky…

By: Mark W.

Mark W. — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:54:02 +0000

Bottom line for me is that it has to be better spec wise than the Droid or I am out.

Love the Android push!

-Happy Holidays

By: John Smith

John Smith — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:06:06 +0000

I’m tired of all the idiotic hype. How is this any different from Google releasing the next developer phone? Some unverified idiotic source says that this is the Google phone and everyone loses their critical thinking and start chanting “Google phone, Google phone”!!

Ok, here is the deal. I have seen this phone is person, held it and played with it long before all this hype started. Yes, it’s snappy, has some fancy animations, etc. But nothing worth this hype.

With all this hype, the phone is just going to look bad since it won’t meet all the hype. Just chill down and wait for the next developer phone people!

P.S: Obviously, John Smith is not my real name.

By: davis

davis — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:43:19 +0000

@raymund- i may be speaking out of my element here. i hate the mytouch 3g, just a pitiful sham of a device. but it runs stock android and the media player shows the disc art, allows me to choose an album, choose a track, skip tracks, fast forward and rewind. What exactly is it missing? just curious, thanks

By: Maj

Maj — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:20:37 +0000

@Raymund
There are many media players out there on the market, first one comes to my mind is tunewiki and its excellent, or maybe you could get yourself an HTC Hero, it has its custom media player and it looks great with differnt media player widgets.
You need to find yourself a better excuse buddy.

By: mikeeeee

mikeeeee — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:44:03 +0000

i don’t care.

how do i get in line for one?

if it has the same quality standards of every other google product, WTF, it’s got to be good as they aint never put any crap out on the street compared to every other cellco and telco.

remember, their updates are up front and personal and you don’t have to hunt them down on some obscure support page.

By: Raymund

Raymund — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:43:08 +0000

Why is it so hard to believe it really is just a test product, probably one of HTCs coming phones hardware just sent to google so they could mess with it, thats not unbelievable, people need to just chill and wait, hopefully now they are fixing the media player so it actually is worth it, i wont jump to android until they’re media player is on par with blackberry’s, how sad is it when blackberry has a better media player, hopefully this is the first thing they tend to because wow it sucks

By: j

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:45:47 +0000

The new phone looks fantastic, but if they want mass adoption, they’re going to have to do something about the price and bring it down to standard carrier prices. Maybe they’ll also combine it with the new multi-carrier 3G radio from Motorola.

I hope that blasted chin is gone too.

By: ari-free

ari-free — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:48:19 +0000

google isn’t a hardware company, their vision I think is a carrier independent ad-subsidized dataphone. That’s a powerful idea but they still needed modern hardware and jazzed up UI to put some spice on that vision so that it would go down better. I think they may have it now.

If you’re only looking for the absolute best in hardware, you probably won’t get it from google but such a phone wouldn’t change the dynamic of the industry. You’d either be locked down to your carrier or on a network that punishes you if you use lots of data.

By: Y314K

Y314K — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:36:50 +0000

Maj: I hope you ritght
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Cause this phone looks like a me too… The screen is at best the same size as the MotoDroid…
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Other then the delivery vehicle being google thru possible walmart & online… It looks like all that google did was ask HTC what they got comming as next gen & make a few cosmetic changes… And order some google branded ones… done and done…

By: droidood

droidood — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:32:09 +0000

i think every1 is missing the point, every android phone is a Google phone/g phone don’t you think.

the droid has trademark logos of Motorola, Verizon, and Google on the back, so it’s a Google phone!!