Also people always want choices.
Having goolge out there would draw attention to this concept and have
4000 times as many people looking for a device.
Some of those will choose neo.
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007 3:48 pm, AVee wrote:
On Monday 05 November 2007 21:05, Dean Collins wrote:
Yep pretty much.
There is a time and a window for technology releases like this and
FIC's
time has come and gone. I hate to put it bluntly but;
It's not hard to think about things like an opensource mobile OS's.
It's not even that hard to convince someone to invest in it.
It is hard to get out Beta and then retail 1.0 but the really hard
part
is being able to invest time and time again in new ideas to be on the
breaking edge of technology and innovation.
It was FIC's window 6-8 months ago but now when the industry stalwarts
are crashing at your door it's time to close up shop, sit on the beach
and think of the next coolest thing.
It's not gone yet. However it is not uncommon for big companies to try
and
make a lot off fuss about a non yet existing product, just to create
enough
anticipation to keep people from moving elswhere. As Microsoft when
WinFS
will be finished, it was supposed to be in XP, it's still not there in
Vista.
But all the time it was a reason not to switch to an OS with a better
filesystem, because WinFS was going to deliver that 'Really Soon
Now(TM)'.
The same thing is happening here, they said "handsets will be available
in
the second half of 2008." That's another 6 months at the very least.
Normally 'the second half of the year' means, we really hope to get it
done
this year, but we might not be able to make it.
The reason they announce so early is simply to create enough buzz so
people
will postpone buying a new phone until they are done. If FIC manages to
deliver before the first google phone they are still in the game.
And if the software Google is planning really is as open as they claim
it is
the Neo might even become the first phone that will run this stuff.
They
said, "minimum reqs is about a 200MHz ARM9" so that shouldn't be the
problem.
If that works out Google may just have jumpstarted the launch of the
Neo,
time will tell.
AVee
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