Let's be clear. A single real Android phone was announced this MWC. The HTC Magic and it is not capable of coming to the US. The General Mobile phone will go the way of the Kogan Agora. Without capable hardware, the right resolution etc Google will either talk them out of releasing it (as they did with the Agora), General Mobile will fail to actually bring the phone to market, or they will bring the phone to market and nobody will care because it is huge and doesn't support 3G. The Texas Instruments announcement is a dev device and not a phone.
That BBC video made it pretty clear that Google isn't saving some surprise announcement. The only real announcement for non EUers is that Samsung is going to delay the release of any possible Android phones. This whole week has been a huge letdown. For someone who has been developing for Android using the SDK, but not willing to switch to T-Mobile for 1st generation hardware that doesn't even have considerable internal memory or any kind of specs that compete in any way shape or form with even phones that were old when the G1 was brand new. I am still excited about Android, but this just makes one thing clear. If we don't want to be disappointed, don't expect to be using a great Android device any time soon. My prediction: At 11:59PM PST 12/31/2009, there will only be ONE or fewer Android phones besides the G1 that can be purchased in the USA, in store or ordered online and shipping the next day from within the US. Where a phone is not a internet tablet, developer device, MID, netbook, etc. On Feb 17, 8:02 am, Steve Barr <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/17/09, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > It's not looking too good :(. > > http://www.engadget.com/tag/android/ > A number of them are popping up today at the MWC... > > Steve > -- > Yes, Chinese is easy if people speak slowly to you, in proper tones > and without an accent. But this is not how Chinese is spoken. -- > renzhe --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
