Comments on: Ex Google Mobile Product Manager Criticizes Android G1

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:11:00 +0000

Head up for Android developers on this http://SlideME.org/blog ~98% payouts from SlideME’s Mobile Application Store

and for users.. to get all apps to your G1, simply install only SAM (their App Manager) to get the rest, http://slideme.org/sam2.apk

They seem serious too: http://www.prwe...rweb2035414.htm

By: Don Sieb

Don Sieb — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:00:23 +0000

I would like to find the right person within Google to talk about what plans if any Google may have for adding payment capability to the Android product.

Does anyone know who I would talk to?

Don

By: gm

gm — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:52:35 +0000

Very wrong, phone has been out for 2 months an it has already faded into obscurity. The difference between this and Iphone can be summed up like this: Will this phone make people want to switch to Tmobile, don’t think so. Does Iphone want to make people switch to ATT, absolutely..

By: gm

gm — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:41:48 +0000

If people liked heavy pieces of military equipment, they would still be carrying the old Motorola brick phones.

By: gm

gm — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:31:08 +0000

I would say he is right. The phone is ugly and looks very heavy compared to the IPhone. This design reminds me of circa 1990s pdas. The buttons at the bottom don’t help any. Just looks like it was thrown together and not very well thought out. I guess they were in a hurry to compete with the IPhone. I don’t think this phone will see much success at all with the Iphone and new Storm on the horizon.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 10:34:53 +0000

http://www.shan...81108/5820.html

Android G2?

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:32:40 +0000

1. The G1 is not a piece of jewelry, it is designed for actual use.
– Ignorant. A phone is designed to be used as…well a phone, all i use is that one function: CALLING PEOPLE. It’s so simple, and i want it to look good, not like a retarded piece of sht on a stick.
2. Only an idiot would purchase a cellphone based on fashion.
– No only an idiot would say that. You might as well say anyone wearing any fashionable clothing is an idiot, but meh.
3. There are lots of idiots, but we’re not all idiots.
– Yes, you are.
4. Apple fanboys, like Right-wingnuts, are a vocal bunch not a large bunch.
– Apple is crap, stop comparing crap to other crap.
5. A G1 should be compared to a laptop computer. An iPhone should be compared to a pair of women’s shoes.
– A phone is not a laptop.

By: Jan Rezab

Jan Rezab — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:53:19 +0000

Check this page for the mobile search research article on Google Mobile: http://blog.hun...eb-over-mobile/

By: Nussbaumer's iStupid

Nussbaumer's iStupid — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:35:54 +0000

1. The G1 is not a piece of jewelry, it is designed for actual use.
2. Only an idiot would purchase a cellphone based on fashion.
3. There are lots of idiots, but we’re not all idiots.
4. Apple fanboys, like Right-wingnuts, are a vocal bunch not a large bunch.
5. A G1 should be compared to a laptop computer. An iPhone should be compared to a pair of women’s shoes.

By: Alfred

Alfred — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:19:53 +0000

Yeah, OK. No. The differences between the G1 and the iPhone are miniscule. What “design standards”? One is rounder with a metal backing with less buttons at the bottom.

Aside from that goofy bulge at the bottom of the G1, the differences are barely noticeable. Most of you will have tacky cases on your iPhones anyway, negating the style factor.

I also find it hilarious that people are using the black model as a standard, since the black model looks like a cheap Palm PDA. The white model, about 1000x better looking, resembles clean Japanese gadgets.

By: Barry Kelly

Barry Kelly — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:50:49 +0000

Ulf did no such thing. If you’d bothered to read the article that Michael linked to, rather than swallowing his spin whole, you’d have seen that. The only thing he’s criticizing is the *styling*; he specifically says that the hardware is pretty up to date, certainly better than the iPhone.

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T-Mobile G1 met Android: niet de hysterie, wel de cijfers - Pocketinfo forum — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:05:51 +0000

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The Prickly Prince From Microsoft Strikes Again — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:11:50 +0000

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By: alex

alex — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:31:27 +0000

Go on Michael,

Try you best! Interview a man, a woman, a turtle, an elephant!
Try as much as you can to bash Google…
You haven’t managed to make even a dent so far, you sure as hell won’t manage to do so with THIS KIND of pathetic posts…

Thank god, the web is no about YOU… its about all of us

http://the-anti...t-me-me-me.html

By: HOTSKILLS

HOTSKILLS — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 06:58:18 +0000

The T-MOBILE Android G1 has a QWERTY keyboard. The IPhone doesn’t.

An IPhone is like a lady wearing a high heeled PRADA shoes while climbing Mt. Rainier. Why suffer ?

By: so

so — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 04:57:51 +0000

Probably not the smartest move to name it after a transformer.

By: Chris Lang

Chris Lang — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 01:49:06 +0000

The guy calls it ugly and old fashioned. I may be both myself and I get more work done than anybody on the Internet, except for maybe Scoble. Here is my point: I want something that gets the job done. Not later, not in a bit, NOW.

I don’t care what it looks like, what they call it or if the design is from last year. I still miss my Treo 650, remember two clicks away? It was their freakin programming rule / design theory.

I don’t want to reboot it 3 times a day like WM6, I don’t want to get memory errors every web page like Opera Mini, I don’t want to wait 10 seconds every time a launch a new app, I don’t want to shut down programs like I am using Windows 98.

I just want what I want and I want it now.

If Android is the name then fine. If it does the job the best it can be done I will buy it. All I want is a browser that works, a battery that has more life than the energizer bunny and I don’t want to have to screw around with the thing.

I do not think that is too much to expect from a $600 phone. Do you?

Also, so you don’t waste your time pointing out it is not $600, you pay way more than that by the time you pay off your 2 year contract etc. So $600 is cheap. If it works that is…

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By: Christian Nussbaumer

Christian Nussbaumer — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:52:28 +0000

Let me comment on this from Europeans point of view. Right, Europe, one of the most important cell phone markets:

1. The phone itself looks outdated and a little ugly.

2. The software may be the best that ever came out from any vendor.

3. I don’t care because the phone looks ugly!

Conclusion; if you design a phone looking really good (HTC Diamond) people will even buy the Windows Mobile running crap. If Google had designed a killer phone, if it would look hot, we would not be discussing this and Android or the gPhone would become a huge success immediately.

With this hardware design however, i seriously doubt this. I mean, you’ve seen the iPhone, HTC Touch, HTC Diamond and now this? I have an iPhone, so I know what I am talking about.

I want my cell phone to be great looking and then i’ll decide on the software running it, like 99% of the consumers do. Maybe the next device then…

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:17:38 +0000

“I believe Google will push Apple to the corner forcing Steve to give up his aggressive approach towards its paying customers and its developers who are trying to make a buck.”

wrong.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:12:56 +0000

yeah, that’s what I want….my phone to look like a piece of military equipment.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:57:31 +0000

uh, I think the point is that they COULD if they wanted to. Their pockets are certainly deep enough (both cash and intellectual/human capital).

By: The Economics of Android

The Economics of Android — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:47:24 +0000

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