Comments on: Google Phone: iPhone On Steroids

By: DavidR

DavidR — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:40:34 +0000

@tied2VZ
You got the Droid, WTH more could you ask? I’m killing myself here waiting for a Snapdragon based phone w/ a decent screen (i.e. larger than 3.2″) and a hardware keyboard.

Besides, Google WENT to VZW and was rebuffed. And I’m ecstatic that they were. VZW has a looooong history of disabling phone features so they can sell a service that does the same thing.

And we won’t even discuss that CDMA needs to die a quick death and free up another chunk of spectrum. There’s a time and place to not get in lock step with the rest of the world, but CDMA is NOT it.

I’ll keep my TMo, which is QUITE reliable where I am thank you very much.

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By: Saddened

Saddened — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:43:14 +0000

Pretty let down… just another HTC phone… big deal? :-/ I LOVE Google, but this is a let down. I was expecting a whole new phone. Kinda like an iphone unveiling. Oh well… I’ll stick to my droid.

By: ari-free

ari-free — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:11:36 +0000

let this gPhone be the mobile IBM-PC standard and everyone else will be able to refer to it and say “we’re compatible with the big G”

By: mikeeeee

mikeeeee — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:50:02 +0000

just let it have UMA and VOIP and a prepaid simcard slot.

By: michaelk

michaelk — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:38:18 +0000

speech to text API’s seem to be wide open on the Droid with 2.0/2.0.1 – the apps just need to be updated.

Touchdown already has speach to txt for the 2.0 version. Just hit the little icon and blabber on. If it’s updated in 2.1 then maybe it’s really functional but in 2.0 it seems a bit rough to speak out a paragraph. I’m amazed how well voice search works, but that’s just a few words. When you speak a whole paragraph it looks like a mad-libs book.

By: johnkzin

johnkzin — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:36:24 +0000

Smaller screen? no physical keyboard?

No thanks. That’s not an upgrade from a G1, that’s a downgrade.

Give me an upgrade from the G1: More RAM (>= .75GB), more storage (2+GB), more CPU speed, more screen (4.1″ or 4.3″), more resolution (800×480), more battery (LOTS more battery), 3.5mm headset, better placement of the data port.

By: Mensahwatts

Mensahwatts — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:01:17 +0000

Right back@kid…yeah I thought about that and I hope that’s the case with this so called Google phone. At this point I think that it is just a beefed up android phone…which is still dandy.

By: ari-free

ari-free — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:16:29 +0000

brian, if google incorporates app2sd and all the other phones update, then it wouldn’t matter if a phone has lots of internal or not. Makes it easier for devs to come out with bigger apps because they won’t have to depend on everyone getting the one phone that has lots of internal storage.

By: tied2VZ

tied2VZ — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:37:13 +0000

CRAP! What’s with the good phones skipping the good system! Sure I’m tired of paying more than everyone else to be on Verizon, but the phone actually rings every time with verizon! When i was on Tmobile I would get a voicemail notification 20 minutes after someone tried to call, and the damn thing never rang! Why make bad ass phones and put them on shity networks like tomobile and AT&T ????? I’ve been chasing this damn phone for 3 months. Damnit if it’s GSM only!

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:25:28 +0000

Jeez, this phone is unlocked for GSM bands, so no Sprint/Verizon, but it’ll work with T-mobile/AT&T

Hope this reduces the posts that go “HOPE THIS GOES TO _______”

By: Tech eSpot

Tech eSpot — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 07:23:42 +0000

Looking forward to the specs and availability. I’ve been holding off on the Droid and hoping for something like this in early 2010.

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:50:11 +0000

@ jeremy: no…sense is htc’s version of android, a google phone will have google’s android on it.

the one department that nobody has touched, aside from samsung, in the android handset game is internal storage. we need more room for apps. we need more ram for more multitasking and smoother gameplay. video calling would be cool too…if google is trying to make a bad ass phone to the likes of the ‘iphone on steroids’ they need to go all out

By: NQ Logic

NQ Logic — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:11:00 +0000

Google is moving down in the stack to challenge B2C opponents with an open architecture and new sets of standards. In creating a post-revenue business model, Google can only manage success if consumers accept a co-branding and outsourced manufactured device … NQ Logic recommends reading about the rest of the new Google’s mobile strategy at http://www.nqlogic.com

By: Peter Crowell

Peter Crowell — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:48:11 +0000

I just cancelled my new contract with Verizon to go back to month-by-month with at&t and wait this out.

I hope it’s affordable. I hope it’s data only voip. And I hope it’s soon.