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That right there is worth a ton of money, and would lead me to purchasing a phone running Android.

Rogers hasn’t even released it yet. You’re hacked eBay toy will soon be a piece of garbage.

Now it’s more of an “eh…this is kind of just an ugly iphone.”
Honestly, I think that this phone screams Windows 98 or something in just how ugly it is. You know, just because technology like this coming to phones is relatively new doesn’t mean you can’t make it look sexy like Vista or leopard. Android already looks dated. The hype was a load of crap.

Android is going to leapfrog.

You have to pay for cell phone games and bling right?
They’re just .jar files like the apps you make for Android, I don’t see why Rogers/AT&T ect… wouldn’t have pay libraries of apps just like they do for games and wallpapers?

Besides being eye-candy, what is the point in many of the graphics intensive applications being developed? Not much. Street view on a phone is cool, but pretty stupid if you think about it – umm…just look up! Some of the integration between contacts and other applications is great, but again this functionality will likely be added to the next versions of both WM and BB. What is the revenue model? Will you have to pay for third-party apps on android, or will people just make them for fun and distribute them? $10M doesn’t go as far as it used to! Some critical questions need to be answered here.

Personnaly I don’t want to be a brand slave…I don’t want to deal with a company that say I’m above the crowd… I don’t want to be on a closed platform…I don’t want to pay high prices

I just simply want Internet and phone mobile access. I just want reasonable fees. I just want interoperability. I just want a business phone.

Apple will never bring that…iPhone no way…Give Androïd some times

Did you look at the SDK?
It’s Java/ANT. It’s not compiling your apps to chipset specific machine code. Each machine that runs the OS will have the same infrastructure to run your apps. Capabilities will no doubt be discoverable in time.

It’s not like programming IN/OUT codes on microcontrollers with a little PDFs of device functions as hex codes.

Secondly, to people criticizing the Android prototype for not looking like an iPhone. Please. The iPhone interface is not well integrated with any kind of message passing system. Android is. So at least I can receive a bloody IM message while looking up pron. For gots sake.

With Android I could choose to create an application that notifies me of stock price updates by pushing data to my phone on XMPP, and the Android UI could update the app on my phone launch the app, place a notification on the top of my screen…… These are things Apple never thought about! Its about communication baby.

The Android interface, as jumbled as it appears in its present state, still looks much funner to use than WM6. Much.

This is why the concept of a ‘gPhone’ was so promising. Google could develop on their own platform within their own spectrum.

Google will indirectly make money becuase more people will be on or connected to the web with their phones. More connected phoens = more advertising potential.