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| MeLLyMeL |
hype hype hype.
I have T mobile and had it since I was 15yrs old. Yes I've had the same number for that long plus the one year that it was my fathers phone before that.
I can not wait.
| quote: | Google phone to cost $179, debut Oct. 22 - AP
The first cell phone running Google Inc.'s mobile software looks something like Apple Inc.'s iPhone and has a large touch screen, but it also packs a trackball, a slide-out keyboard and easy access to Google's e-mail and mapping programs.
Google made its debut as a cell phone software provider Tuesday at an event where wireless carrier T-Mobile said it will begin selling the G1 phone for $179 with a two-year contract. The device hits U.S. stores Oct. 22 and heads to Britain in November and other European countries early next year.
The phone will be sold in T-Mobile stores only in the U.S. cities where the company has rolled out its faster, third-generation wireless data network. By launch, that will be 21 cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Houston and Miami.
In other areas, people will be able to buy the phone from T-Mobile's Web site. The phone does work on T-Mobile's slower data network, but it's optimized for the faster networks. It can also connect at Wi-Fi hotspots.
The data plan for the phone will cost $25 per month on top of the calling service, at the low end of the range for data plans at U.S. wireless carriers. And at $179, the G1 is $20 less than the least expensive iPhone in the U.S.
Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Google's founders, made a surprise appearance at the launch event. "It's just very exciting for me as a computer geek to be able to have a phone that I can play with and modify and innovate upon just like I have with computers in the past," Brin said.
He said he'd written an application for Android already: When a user throws the phone into the air, the program records how long it takes until it lands, using the phone's built-in motion sensor. Brin acknowledged that the wisdom of including such a program with an expensive phone is dubious.
"We did not include that one by default," he said.
Page said the mobile phone industry, which sells 1 billion units a year worldwide, was a tremendous opportunity for Google.
Google is giving away Android, the software that underlies the G1, for free, and opening the operating system to third-party developers who can create their own programs. Google hopes that in turn, mobile phones will provide even more ways for people to interact with the company's advertising network.
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| nchs09 |
Hadron collider > iphone
Both happen in a month :o |
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| jonze |
| quote: | Originally posted by nchs09
Hadron collider > iphone
Both happen in a month :o |
really? i think the iphone has been out for awhile |
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| nchs09 |
| quote: | Originally posted by jonze
really? i think the iphone has been out for awhile |
I fail :(
I meant Gphone. |
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| Ygrene |
I am pretty interested in this....I've been considering a personal phone for a while now. More for data than anything else really.
And lol at Nachos trying to be the zinger but actually being the zingee. |
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| iammesol |
CHEUH!
I still think Google will eventually become an evil corporation and end all humanity. |
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| nchs09 |
| quote: | Originally posted by iammesol
CHEUH!
I still think Google will eventually become an evil corporation and end all humanity. |
This is true..... but i think they will be the nicest evil corporation ever. |
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| MeLLyMeL |
| quote: | Originally posted by nchs09
This is true..... but i think they will be the nicest evil corporation ever. |
Right - have u seen the perks people who work @ Google get?
It's everyones dream job. |
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| Ygrene |
| quote: | Originally posted by iammesol
CHEUH!
I still think Google will eventually become an evil corporation and end all humanity. |
The Googlenator is going to be sent back in time to kill you. |
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| sot |
| quote: | Originally posted by MeLLyMeL
Right - have u seen the perks people who work @ Google get?
It's everyones dream job. |
it's also the most rigorous interview process to ever go through
roughly 2 months of interviews and then they MIGHT hire you.
friend of mine went through it and said it was HELL and didn't get the job and is now working for microsoft instead :stongue:.
anywho, def copping this. looks like a solid phone :) |
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| MeLLyMeL |
Does anyone know if I can use mobile websites like "meebo" to use "data" for aim instead of aim through the phone where it'll count as a "text message".
I'm looking at data plans and I want the unlimited data but 400 text messages/aim. |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by MeLLyMeL
Does anyone know if I can use mobile websites like "meebo" to use "data" for aim instead of aim through the phone where it'll count as a "text message".
I'm looking at data plans and I want the unlimited data but 400 text messages/aim. |
Melissa, just look for an actual instant messaging app in the app store when it comes out. The immediate problem with Android is that the developer base is large, but because there is no final SDK (software development kit) out, developers are still dealing with old code. Wait till the phone launches and then give it a month or so. Also, I am sure that palringo (I use that as it is MUCH better than any of the mobile multi-protocol messengers out there for windows mobile) will have an app for Android soon enough.
Oh and get unlimited messaging (yes that is messaging, not just text, it is all messages) and don't ever worry again. It isn't expensive ($15/m). |
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