Re: LWN.net reviews android dev phone
On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 12:22:15 am arne anka wrote: > > "That, of course, ties in to why Google has gotten into this exercise in > > the first place. There are many features of the Android platform which > > are designed to tie the user in more closely to services provided by > > Google." > > took the guys at lwm.net obviously rather long, to see that ... To be fair to them they were reviewing the functionality of the G1 development phone, that was just a side comment in the review. For those who are interested an Australian company (Kogan) is going to be selling their own design unlocked Android 3G phone at the end of the month for AU$399. http://www.csamuel.org/2009/01/01/australian-android-phone I've pre-ordered one so I can get to hack more on my Neo without having to worry about stuffing up the phone I now rely on (plus I am finding I really do need physical keys to be happy with a phone). cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: LWN.net reviews android dev phone
> "That, of course, ties in to why Google has gotten into this exercise in > the first place. There are many features of the Android platform which > are designed to tie the user in more closely to services provided by > Google." took the guys at lwm.net obviously rather long, to see that ... ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
LWN.net reviews android dev phone
...which may be of interest to people on this list. the article is part of this week's edition, which is still on paid-only general acccess, but users of this list can read the article (without registering) at http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/311715/01e7686dee76f148/ (_kudos_ to lwn for their send-a-link feature). some interesting comments about how tied-to-google the phone seems to be: "More annoying, though, is that the phone requires the creation of a Gmail account as part of its setup process. The fact that one does not have - and does not want - such an account is not relevant. So now your editor has an entry in the Gmail account database which will never be used. That, of course, ties in to why Google has gotten into this exercise in the first place. There are many features of the Android platform which are designed to tie the user in more closely to services provided by Google. [...] It is possible to use many of the features of the device without connecting back to the Google mother ship, but it's not the natural mode of operation." anyway, it's there if you're interested. -- Tom Yates - http://www.teaparty.net ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
