Zvonurile în această privinţă circulă de mai multă vreme, dar acum sunt mai intense ca oricând.

Tech Crunch susţine chiar că Google Phone va apărea pe piaţă la începutul anului 2010 şi va fi produs de o companie sud-coreeană, Samsung sau (mai probabil) LG, dar cu brandul „Google”.

În acelaşi timp, oficialii gigantului american continuă să respingă informaţia.

„Nu producem khardware, lăsăm în seama altora să facă asta”, a declarat Andy Rubin, din partea Google, luna trecută.

El mundo de los teléfonos celulares se prepara para la llegada del nuevo HTC basado en la plataforma Android de Google.

En fechas recientes, la Federal Communications Commission aprobó en Estados Unidos el uso del primer teléfono inteligente con el sistema operativo que desarrolló Google junto con otras 30 compañías.

El nuevo celular es un teléfono con el que Google se prepara para expandir sus dominios y dar la batalla en el campo de la telefonía móvil.

De acuerdo con Laura M. Holsom, analista de The New York Times, entre los detalles del hardware se destaca una pantalla táctil estilo iPhone, pero también un teclado deslizable Qwerty, semejante al de las Blackberry.

El mismo diario The New York Times señaló que el 23 de septiembre se celebrará una conferencia en la que se conocerán detalles sobre el celular basado en Google Android.

El software es quizá el que de verdad marque la diferencia. Muchos analistas atribuyen el éxito del iPhone a la cantidad de aplicaciones (muchas de ellas gratuitas) que permiten personalizar el teléfono de acuerdo con las necesidades específicas de cada usuario.

Google le apuesta a lo mismo. Su visión es que, al igual que con las computadoras personales, sean los usuarios quienes decidan qué programas instalar.

“Eventualmente podremos ganar más dinero en telefonía móvil de lo que ganamos con el servicio a equipos de cómputo”, comentó al diario neoyorquino Eric E. Schmidt, director ejecutivo de Google.

Moe Tanabian, ejecutivo de IBB Consulting comentó que para recibir correos electrónicos deberá contarse con una cuenta de Gmail (todavía no está claro si habrá compatibilidad con otros proveedores) y que los usuarios tendrán acceso a la T-Mobile App Store (muy parecida a la actual App Store del iPhone).

Googlephone, el golpe letal

Mucho se ha especulado sobre el nuevo móvil de Google. Desde su sistema operativo y diseño, hasta el precio al que se venderá y las compañías asociadas al lanzamiento.

Ahora se dice que la verdadera estrategia con la que la compañía de Silicon Valley atacará al mercado de los teléfonos celulares incluirá un servicio ilimitado de llamadas gratuitas.

Por primera vez una sola empresa controlaría todo, desde el software en los equipos hasta los servicios que se utilizan para hacer las llamadas y navegar la red.

Según publica el Times Online, el Googlephone promete ser uno de los más avanzados “teléfonos inteligentes”, que incluiría un larga pantalla touchscreen y un procesador casi dos veces más rápido que el que emplea el iPhone 3G de Apple.

Se espera, por igual, que sea el primer equipo en el que se pueda usar la nueva versión del software Google Android. Algunos rumores dicen que la compañía taiwanesa HTC podría participar en la fabricación del teléfono, que llevaría un procesador Qualcomm.

Con este lanzamiento los de Silicon Valley asestarían un “golpe letal” y estarían cerrando un emporio que incluye software y telefoníá móvil.

Por ahora Google ya cuenta con herramientas como navegador, sistema operativo (Chromium), transferencia de voz vía internet (Voice y Talk), compras en línea (Product Search), posicionamiento global (Maps), plataforma de videos (YouTube), intercambio de documentos (Docs), correo electrónico (Gmail), entre muchas más.

Sin embargo, el mayor avance que se espera es la unión del Googlephone con Google Voice. Esta última filial californiana ofrece a los usuarios de Estados Unidos un número de teléfono gratuito y permite llamadas ilimitadas a cualquier teléfono en el país, sean líneas fijas o celulares.

Las llamadas internacionales se ofrecen a apenas dos centavos de dólar el minuto.

El rumor se acrecentó cuando Google compró una pequeña compañía llamada Gizmo5, quien ha desarrollado tecnología de voz en internet, como la que usa el sistema de Skype. De esta forma el teléfono de la empresa podría ofrecer llamadas gratis desde y hacia cualquier teléfono (que tenga el software) o computadora en el mundo.

Your Computer Friends found this article we thought you might be interested in:

Google is gearing up for an all-out assault on the mobile-phone market that will include a new, Google-branded handset and the first comprehensive Google phone service with unlimited free calls.

For the first time, a single company will control everything from the software in users’ phones to the services they use to make calls and surf the web.

The Googlephone promises to be one of the most advanced smartphones, with a large touchscreen display and a processor almost twice as fast as the one powering Apple’s iPhone 3GS. It will probably be the first phone to run a new version of Google’s Android software, codenamed Flan, offering high-speed 3-D gaming said to be as good as that of many handheld consoles.

According to Ashok Kumar, an analyst at Northeast Securities, a financial services firm, the Google-branded phone will be built by a third-party supplier, possibly the Taiwanese phone maker HTC, and will incorporate a processor from Qualcomm.

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The real breakthrough, however, will come with the marriage of the Googlephone to Google Voice, the Californian company’s high-tech phone service. Google Voice gives US users a free phone number and allows unlimited free calls to any phone in the country — landline or mobile. International calls start from a couple of cents (just over a penny) a minute. Google Voice also uses sophisticated voice recognition to turn voicemails into emails, can block telemarketing calls automatically and offers free text messaging.

Google sounded its intentions two weeks ago when it purchased a small company called Gizmo5, which had developed technology to connect Google Voice with voice-over-internet (Voip) networks such as Skype. Now Google has the means to offer a complete, end-to-end phone service, with which consumers can make and receive calls between the Googlephone and other phones or computers anywhere in the world, and often for nothing.

“We’ve never had this situation, where a single vendor controls the entire stack, from the operating system right up to Google’s cloud services,” says Kumar. “It changes the competitive and bargaining dynamics like never before.”

Google declined to comment on its plans, however.

One victim of the Google juggernaut could be Skype, the internet phone service. Skype software uses a broadband internet connection to offer free voice and video calls to other Skype users, plus cheap calls to landlines worldwide. If Google can succeed in linking its Google Voice service to Skype and other Voip networks, it can lure users with the offer of free long-distance calling and a “real” phone number.

One of Google’s challenges will be to link the phone to mobile networks so that the company’s services can be offered not just over wi-fi-connected broadband, but also over a 3G link to the internet, resulting in a real call-from-anywhere device.

This could prove a problem, though: few phone networks will appreciate being frozen out of lucrative business such as voice calling and text messaging, and being reduced to a simple data pipeline for Google’s services.

Google could also antagonise the networks by selling its mobile phone directly to customers and inviting them to use their existing Sim cards, whatever network they are on. “Google wants the Googlephone to be carrier-agnostic,” Kumar predicts. This could push the price of the handset to well over £500, because the cost of smartphones is heavily subsidised by networks, which recoup the money by locking customers into their services.

The mobile networks aren’t the only enemies Google risks creating. Other phone makers now using the Android operating system, such as Samsung, Motorola and Sony Ericsson, might not take kindly to Google keeping the most up-to-date version of its software for itself.

Although the popularity of Android has grown quickly since its launch last year, it is still installed on less than 4% of the smartphones sold, and there are other free operating systems (Symbian, for instance) to which rival phone makers could switch.

Can Google have its Flan and eat it? We may not have too long a wait before finding out, because Kumar and other experts are predicting that the Googlephone will be launched in the US early next year.

Source:  http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/personal_tech/article6924233.ece

Hi-ya friends and neighbors on the Net!

Did ya miss me? Last week I was having a “that was the week that was” kind of episode with health issues and a very busy schedule preventing me from writing to you. But that was then, and this is now … and do I have some things to show you this week in this edition of JWL.

Firefox browser users, I have installed a new application called the “YouTube Auto Buffer & Auto HD & Remove Ads” application. It may be a funny name for an application, but I love this app! It’s actually a two part install with the Greasemonkey application installation followed by the script that allows you to watch You Tube videos already set to HD (larger, clearer screens). It keeps those pesky ads from appearing on the video screen while the video is playing, and it loads the video up (aka buffering) and lets you click the button when you’re ready to watch it, instead of the video starting up as soon as the page loads. The link below sends you to the page with instructions and links for the download. Remember, this is for Firefox browsers only from Userscripts.org. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/49366

As you might know, Google is still churning out new applications for internet users worldwide. Two new things to be watching for … the Google Operating System for PC computers, and next year … the Google Phone. Now, I know someone who is reading this is saying, “wait a minute, there was talk about a phone before and Google said it wasn’t making one”. Matter of fact, they have released the Android operating system for phones like the Droid which was released a couple of weeks ago. But word has gotten out that they are in the process of picking the hardware maker and it’s rumored to be either Toshiba or LG. The Google Operating System for PC’s (known as Chrome OS) will be run on computers like the popular Netbook that are big on memory but without hard drives. The trend, you see, is all about “cloud” computing. That is, connecting to the internet and doing everything online, which is why so many products Google has been turning out is about working online, like Gmail for email, watching videos on You Tube, and the new Wave for interactive projects with coworkers.

OK, so getting onto things that are more immediate, Black Friday, the common term for shopping the day after Thanksgiving, is coming up this week. ( I know! Thanksgiving already.) There is a website for Black Friday shoppers calling themselves the “official site for all of the 2009 Black Friday ads as they are reported to us during this holiday shopping season”. BlackFriday.info has a rather extensive listing of stores with deals for the beginning of holiday shopping. Categories include coupons, black friday ads and online shopping. This is a good bookmark … http://www.blackfriday.info/

Thanksgiving means we have reason to give thanks for the blessings we have. It also means we can give thanks for God’s blessings including the ability to taste good food. Want a place where you can find the real joy of baking? Try visitng JoyofBaking.com where you can find inviting pictures and recipes for such treats as pumpkin cheesecake, red velvet cake, gingerbread men, apple pie, and shortbread cookies. Now all you need to do is get busy! Remember that there are plenty of volunteers (many of them in your own family) who are willing to try a sample of your efforts and tell you how good it is … http://www.joyofbaking.com/

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Beth Vorhees of Public TV fame said her daughter, Diana, a third-grader, was to give a demonstration speech at school. She planned to demonstrate how to make “Flies on a Log,” which consists of peanut butter spread on a stalk of celery with raisins on it.
The morning of her speech, Diana took out everything she needed and put it on the kitchen counter, ready to take it to school. Unfortunately, when the girl and her mother left for school, they forgot to take the items.
Diana’s mother dropped her off and went home to get the stuff.
The celery was gone. The raisins were gone. The peanut butter had been put away.
“Oh,” said Diana’s father. “I had that stuff for breakfast.”
Beth rushed to gather up more ingredients and hurry them to school, with an apology to the teacher and an explanation of what happened.
“Gee,” said Diana’s teacher, “that’s a first — ‘My dad ate my homework.’”
(thanks, Joanna)
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“This house,” said the real estate salesman, “has both its good points and its bad points. To show you I’m honest, I’m going to tell you about both.
The disadvantages are that there is a chemical plant one block south and a slaughterhouse a block north.”
“What are the advantages?” inquired the prospective buyer.
“The advantage is that you can always tell which way the wind is blowing.”
(thanks, Reggie)
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A few years back, I had my old 45 RPM records out to look through and my daughter asked what they were. I explained that back in the 1960s, before CDs were invented, this was how we listened to music. I further explained how all the bands issued singles on these “45s,” and radio stations would rate the top 40 songs every week.
She was quite impressed as I continued describing how one used a phonograph to play them. I burst out laughing when she asked — perfectly straight faced — “Daddy, how many megs of RAM does one of these hold?”
(thanks, Jay)
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The Vacation Bible School theme for the day was “God’s All-Star Champions,” so they had sports-related activities. To get in the sports spirit, and since Denver has several professional sports teams, the minister asked “What is the name of the place where the Colorado Avalanche play hockey?”
One of the children answered, “Pepsi Center.”
“And where do the Denver Broncos play?”
“Invesco Field at Mile High.”
“And where do the Colorado Rockies play?”
“Coors Field.”
“And finally, where do the Nuggets play?”
“McDonalds!”
(thanks, Janet)
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As I mentioned earlier in this issue, it’s Thanksgiving and a time to give thanks. I want to thank each of you for reading the weekly WebLetter. And thanks for the jokes folks. Have a great week and a happy Thanksgiving and until next weekend, may God bless you and keep you safe.

c-ya!
Jim
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Google va lansa propriul telefon branduit la inceputul lui 2010, care va reflecta viziunea companiei privind modul in care ar trebui sa fie un dispozitiv de telefonie mobila , informeaza TechCrunch.

Noul telefon Google va fi vandut direct sau prin intermediul retailerilor. Se pare ca dispozitivul trebuia sa fie lansat de Sarbători, dar termenul a fost amanat pana la inceputul lui 2010.

Aparatul va fi produs de o companie specializata in productia de dispozitive telefonice, sub brandul Google si dupa conceptul impus de companie.

Ca si iPhone-ul de la Apple, dispozitivul va reflecta propria viziune a Google despre cum ar trebui sa fie un telefon mobil.

Potrivit unor informatii neconfirmate, constructorul telefonului ar putea fi o companie coreeana, cel mai probabil LG. Lansarea va fi sustinuta de un amplu efort de promovare.

Articol preluat din: www.tehnopol.ro

The rumors have abounded for a few months now whether Google is making hardware and will be launching a smartphone in the near future; the head geeks at Google are supposedly running around their offices in Mountain View with beta devices attached to their belts.

What’s next?  YPhone?  MPhone?  (that’s Yahoo and Microsoft in case you wondered).  There are rumors that a sleek, slick, google-built smartphone will hit after the new year with a big marketing splash in January since they missed the holiday season.  Google’s Andy Rubin, head Droid-head, stated they aren’t building hardware and interested in competing with customers, but since most likely a Korean company is doing the manufacturing, google technically isn’t ‘building’ a smartphone.  Hmmm….what’s the diff, right?

The other slant on the GPhone rumors, is that it will be a data-only device using VoIP for voice calls and not using the carriers cellular networks.  This would allow them to ‘not compete’ with customers….can you say ‘Google Voice?’

Blah Blah Blah…..sounds like a politician being interviewed…..what’s the real story on this and what’s fact and what’s fiction?

This will certainly be a watched topic and with Android coming out in competition against Apple’s iPhone, plus Verizon taking shots at them as well with the ‘iDon’t’ commercials, could Google really be readying a 3rd salvo in the kick Apple where it hurts saga?  Sit back, grab some popcorn and let’s see how this sorts out.

This is getting more interesting every day. Google is a very smart company making smart decisions time and time again. First with releasing Google Maps, Gmail, Google Voice, Android OS and Google Nav on the Droid. But it may be in Google’s interest in moving forward with a device that is VoIP based since it lost the 700MHz auction, because of the infrastructure Google has already in place for such a device.

Google so far has Google Voice (with Voice Mail), Google Nav, Android OS, Gmail and possibly several other apps or items lined up for such a device. Even though Google does not own spectrum, what could preclude Google from buying carrier companies? They do have the money and love from their shareholders to pull off such a move. Or Google can just lease the networks from the carriers (it happens all the time). A source at the WSJ (via TechCrunch) states: Our source says AT&T is already bidding for the business, and may be willing to sell data to Google, with certain conditions, for $20/month. Also, WSJ reported: (their) sources at AT&T have confirmed that they’ll sell data-only plans to customers who bring in BlackBerry and Windows devices, and strip out the voice plan.

Google’s $750 million acquisition of mobile ad network AdMob also puts an interesting twist into the game. “[The AdMob acquisition] is a recognition that mobile actually represents a whole different set of capabilities to an advertiser,” says Mike Wehrs, president and CEO of the Mobile Marketing Association. “It clearly demonstrates the value of the industry.”

Google is circling the wagons while the mobile wireless industry is trying to figure out what Google’s next move will be and where. While the carriers sit back on their laurels and play the guessing game, Google will make an advance in a very unwanted direction; taking very Dominant position with several free and open platforms in which to launch their (next) industry changing service: Google Mobile

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Alright seriously Google, now you’re just trying to get a rise out of me right?

I just got done coming to terms with waiting until mid-December for the HTC Passion release and now you have to go and do something like this. Like the holidays aren’t stressful enough.

Here, in no particular order, is why I’m not going to take this seriously and my decision is going to be made in December based on the Passion versus the Droid.

• Google hasn’t said a peep about it and have in fact said quite definitively that such a product would not exist within the last few weeks.
• Chances are even if something like this did release in the next few months it would not be on Verizon. (Although if this thing comes out for AT&T I may actually be physically ill as I’m going to have to hear about their having both the iPhone and the gPhone.)
• Even if Google is basically dictating everything under the sun on this device, so what? I don’t know what about that would make it any better than what’s coming out of Motorola or HTC.
• The alleged partnership is with LG, not that they are bad, but I’ve had LG phones and meh is what think of them creating my high end smartphone.
• Honestly I’m just tired of waiting, at some point you have to bite the bullet and make your move and play the cards your dealt and dance with the one that brung’ you and etc….

Alright, I’m the calm center of the universe again and I’m going to go back to trolling for Passion news.

What about the rest of you, are you biting?

Update: TechCrunch is reporting that the phone may be purely data driven using VOIP for voice duty and they are sticking with AT&T or T-Mobile as the carrier. If that actually proves to be true I really will be at peace with the device as AT&T in the middle portion of the country where I live and would leave the gPhone little more than a glorified paperweight anytime I left wifi.

google phone rumors are back with a vengeance, spurred on by reports that the Internet behemoth Google is partnering with phone maker HTC on a “super” Android device thinner than the Droid and iPhone. The release date for this Google-branded phone is early 2010, according to TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington who reported a Google Phone was in the works Tuesday.

Rumors of a Google phone are nothing new, although speculation did start to disappear once Android-based phones hit the market last year. But this is the second time a Google phone rumor has popped up in recent weeks, and Arrington’s rumor bear a striking resemblance to what we’ve heard before.

The Real Google Phone
Taking a page out of Apple’s “we control the customer experience” playbook, Google reportedly wants to produce a handset that will be completely dictated by the team in Mountain View. Details about the phone are incredibly thin. There’s no word on what kind of specs the handset would have, but potential manufacturers for the phone, according to Arrington, include LG and Samsung. A major advertising campaign introducing the phone could reportedly start as early as January of next year.
Google will reportedly sell its phone directly to customers as well as through retailers. That suggests the search giant may not have a network partner on board, and would sell unsubsidized phones instead. Phones sold outside of the carrier system means the Google phone could cost as much as $500, and would have to run on a SIM-friendly GSM networks such as AT&T and T-Mobile.
While a carrier-free Google phone would be an unusual move in the age of exclusivity contracts, it’s not unheard of. Handset makers such as RIM and Palm sell unlocked versions of their smartphones through Amazon and other retailers.
The suggestion that the phone will not be tied to a specific carrier, backs up a previous assertion by Northeast Securities analyst Ashok Kumor who made similar claims last month after Google’s “design partners” filled him about the phone, according to the Street.com.

The iPhone is not Beta
A phone experience created and designed exclusively by Google will inevitably draw comparisons with Apple’s iPhone. And, as Arrington points out, for good reason. Just as the iPhone is Apple’s vision of the handset, a Google-branded phone would be a competing vision of what the smartphone should be.
But while dictating the phone experience makes sense for Apple–a company that has a long history in designing polished hardware–Google is not about launching polished products. Can the company that made beta a punchline deliver on a complete customer experience the first time around? Sure, the original iPhone lacked smartphone basics like cut-and-paste, video capability and MMS. But with the exception of video, those are all software issues. The fact is, from a hardware perspective, the original iPhone was a revolutionary and complete product. There’s no question iPhone hardware has improved over time, but that doesn’t take anything away from the original design.
Google, on the other hand, is all about delivering an incomplete product and then fixing and improving it over time. But you can’t do that with a physical product. For smartphones there is no such thing as beta. You either get it right at launch or you don’t. It’s as simple as that.
Another question is how Google’s Android partners will react to a Google phone? As my colleague JR Raphael pointed out last month, Google has worked hard to convince manufacturers to embrace the Android platform. Changing roles from Android facilitator to Android competitor, could hamper those efforts.

[...] Most of our sources have unconfirmed information, which we describe below. But there are a few things we have absolutely confirmed: Google is building their own branded phone that they’ll sell directly and through retailers. They were long planning to have the phone be available by the holidays, but it has now slipped to early 2010. The phone will be produced by a major phone manufacturer but will only have Google branding Microsoft did the same thing with their first Zunes, which were built by Toshiba.

There won’t be any negotiation or compromise over the phone’s design of features – Google is dictating every last piece of it. No splintering of the Android OS that makes some applications unusable. Like the iPhone for Apple, this phone will be Google’s pure vision of what a phone should be.

That’s it for confirmed, super-high confidence information, which frankly isn’t a whole lot more than we all heard back in late October. But we also have a few more details as well that we’ve gathered from a number of sources. Everything that follows we still consider to be just well-sourced rumors:

One source told us that HTC, a Taiwanese company, is building the new Google phone, but we think that information is incorrect. We have some fairly good information that suggests Google is working with a Korean phone manufacturer on the Google phone – LG or Samsung. Samsung has multiple parts in the iPhone and could be pressured by Apple not to work with Google, which says LG is the more likely partner for Google. So rumors like this one may be much more important than they first appear. But either way, the best information we have right now points directly at Korea as the birthplace of the Google Phone.

We’ve also heard from a good source that Google is planning a big advertising push around the device early next year – like January.

That’s all we have for now. We don’t yet know what the device will look like, how big it will be, or even if it has a physical keyboard. But we do know that Google is getting into the phone building business directly, and doesn’t seem too concerned about competing with all the other device manufacturers building Android phones.

via The Google Phone Is Very Real. And It’s Coming Soon.

Just came across a very interesting article on the net that talks about Apple driving developers away from its App Store. Huh!!! Is that possible? After all Apple and it’s iPhone/iPod are supposed to be the best thing that has ever happened to the world. The truth is actually quite different my friends.

At one point the iPhone was probably the best platform for mobile applications. But the situation is quite different now. RIM’s Blackberry, Google’s Android and Palm’s WebOS have all changed the dynamics of the game. Consumers and mobile app developers have a lot of choice now. All the operating systems are quite capable and worthy and some of them are actually easier to develop for. For example if you want to develop for the Android or the Palm Web OS all you need is the SDK and a computer running Windows, Linux or Mac OS. But if you want to develop for the iPhone you need to have an Apple Mac computer. Ridiculous!!! What were they thinking? By constraining the development environment you are already alienating some of the developers.

The thing that takes the cake is Apple’s policies for applications that can be hosted on the App Store. In fact there is a clear lack of a consistent policy and every application, and by extension the developer, is at the mercy of the whims of an Apple employee. So if the Apple person reviewing your application on a particular day had a harrowing time tackling brutal traffic, or just learnt that his/her partner is cheating on him, then you could be doomed. Your application would be rejected for some seemingly vague reasons. And I am not pulling something out of thin air here, this has happened….on multiple occasions….and continues to happen even today. So here’s the million dollar question:

Who the f&*^ is Apple to decide what I can run on my iPhone/iPod ?

In some of my previous posts I had talked about how Apple might be losing developers if it does not get it’s act together. Here are a few of them:

• Apple iPhone will lose to Google Android powered T-Mobile G1
• 22 steps through iPhone development hell
• Arrogant Apple good for Google

In fact Apple has started losing developers. Check out this article. Most of the fanboys would be quick to dismiss this as a one off case of disgruntled developers. Probably true now but how long would this take to snowball into something bigger? More importantly can Apple afford to take a hit to their reputation? Google Android and the Web OS have opened up development to all and their store policies are more lenient towards developers. So what does Apple have to gain? The iPhone on Verizon seems to be a distant dream specially with the Motorola Droid faring quite well. Looks like it might pretty much be all downhill from here for the iPhone.

Madoco  的 ROM 試了有一天多，感覺很一般。系統不定時出現很大的延遲， 差不多全體癱瘓個幾十秒也不是沒有…估計是 Kernel 正在進行記憶及 Swap 之間的資料交換。 Swap 建在 Class 4 的  SD 卡上，按Android 的內部資料流量來說應該還能應乎才對…也許 Embedded Linux 在處理器及資源的限制下，實在不應用到 Swap；同時也應驗了 GalaxHero ROM 作者對” Swap 是系統效能的殺手”的說法…

用上 Madoco 前還試刷了 Galaxo 及 GalaxHero, 為的就是試一下帶 compcache 的系統反應。不過沒有完全按指示，換成歐版的 II5 baseband。配合港版 ZHII4 的結果就是兩者都卡在開機畫面(似乎在bootloader卡死了吧..?)，邊玩 Dragon Age 邊等下，過了一個多小時還是不變…可惜。或許試過 Madoco 後再老老實實按 Steps 重刷一下。

未來希望有支援 compcache 的 ROM 發佈出來吧。畢竟 swap 到壓縮記憶體也鐵定比 SD 快，同時 compcache 主頁內的 Android 試用回響也好像很不錯，搞得我有點期待。

順帶一提，Madoco 跟 Nandroid 也許相性不太好，暫時也不知是 swap 問題還是 Customize 所致。 我是先裝 Madoco，以 nandroid backup 後剷掉刷GalaxHero/Galaxo， 然後剷掉再速試國人的完美港版，最後再 restore 那備份。結果是 Madoco 的備份有問題，起初估計跟完美港版的 bootloader 不兼容，故先以 Odin 完全地刷入官方港版，灌了無敵 recovery image 後再 restore 也不行。最後用上初期以官方 Rom 為 base 的 backup 才行。然後再以 recovery mode  刷入 Madoco。

還有，終於找到其他 Keyboard 替換內建的那個低能貨。用過 iPhone 的人去用 Android 內建的 Keyboard，不扔機子也鐵定氣死(如我)。 這兩個替換品分別是 Better Keyboard 及 AnysoftKeyboard。 前者功能可能是最強，操作及方便感也最貼近 iPhone 的，更有大量不同 Skin ；可惜本地 Market 下不到 ( 卻找到一大堆 Skin…莫明其妙)。後者則可從 Market 下載，功能及外型也不差 Better Keyboard 很多，免費開源又簡單，嫌煩的人最佳選擇也。也可惜 Lime 不能換別人的 Keyboard 用…他那跟內建的比也是五十步百步之流…-_-

可能受制於機體記憶量限制(128MB only, while HTC Magic w/288MB), Galaxy 在介面(由其撥打電話的面版) 的反應都頗不很順暢. 國外有些網友就利用 Swapper, 尚試把 SD card 當成 swap, 期望運作反應有所提升. 然而在 Galaxy 可是白費工夫的, 起因在於其 kernel compile 時根本沒有包含 swap 功能在內, 而 Swapper 所做的只是呼叫及使用一般 Linux 的 swap 功能而已. 除了自行篇譯, 網上尚有兩個所知有支援 Swap 的 cooked rom 套件:

• Madoco.com 網站製作的 ROM, 最新版本為 v1.2, 而停止開發
• HDblog.it 網站的 ROM (Bounty build?), 主要作成 Galaxyo 及 GalaxyHero, 這版本以 compcache (壓縮記憶體內的data) 取代 swap. 按他們所講 swap 會大幅犧牲系統性能云云.

我暫時只試了 Madoco , 時間尚短也沒啥結論…然後就會再試 GalaxyHero, 看看用上 HTC Sense 後有多慢．

Original source by 國內網友 : 毛毛

應是最簡單方便快捷的方法…

现在Android的机型越来越多了~哈哈~发展潜力不言而喻~
想到当初刚入手G1的时候，还有着“边用边学英语的功能”，只能感叹现在的孩子太幸福了

为方便各位新入手I7500的Android新手来获ROOT，我写的还是很简洁的，争取让他家一目了然，而且还能使用ADB哦！

开工！

先来下载这个重要的压缩包：

内含了能让ADB正常使用的驱动、新版的Root以及Recovery image文件！

稍等片刻就可以看到你已经成功的获取了ROOT权限了！

Origin source

首先準備些工具…

第一步，把下載的檔案解壓后放到C:/裡，（為求方便使用）

第二步，開始==>執行，打CMD后按enter。會彈出一個命令提示字元（忘記了簡體XP裡面叫什麽了）

第三步，在CMD打

cd..

cd..

連續兩次(即回到root)

然後再打

cd tools

然後再繼續打

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

這裡打完后先別按ENTER，留著待用

做到這裡，大家暫時停一下，準備以下的功夫

將I7500先連上數據線（不是連電腦，是將數據線先插好在I7500上）

然後按下“Power + Call”按鈕，進入fastboot模式，這時候立即將I7500的數據線連接上電腦。

并切換到CMD視窗，按下ENTER

當提示recovery.img寫入后，就關機

跟著按下i7500的“Volume Down + Call + Power”按鈕，進入Recovery模式

然後在CMD視窗，打下以下的命令字元后按ENTER

adb shell mount -o remount,rw /sdcard/
adb shell rm /sdcard/rectools//RECTOOLS.tar.gz (only if it’s an update)
adb push RECTOOLS.tar.gz /sdcard/
adb shell sync

大功告成，最後重啟，完工

自上次 Samsung Galaxy 怨言分拆的一點 Review…

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講一下三叔同步軟件既7事

• UI 外表好靚, 但係用 performance 換返黎既! 唔該套 library 唔惦就唔好玩呢家野啦.
• 出個 drive browsing list 都要成十來秒…CLS.
• 過相個 part 有得做 batch resize. 但係低能到不行. e.g. 揀 800×600, 結果係直度既相強行拉闊晒!
• 白痴到極 #angry3
• 話有得用藍牙連接又係呃_人, 隻電話本身都唔受駁, 簡直誤導人
• 轉戲個度好, build in convertor叫方便
• 其他功能睇到想做一站式處理, 但係操作反應好慢, 無心機搞(我只係要同步….同步呀!!!)

如果知部機配套係甘6+1, 真係唔貪個 display 同相機.
家陣好似貪果盆中計 feel, 好想囉返去加錢換 Hero 算 -___-

關於 Android 的不滿

• IP跟AP/hotspot 的設定分開, 呢個又係不明所以既設計. iPhone 係 set once and forget, Android 重要人去到邊就手動改一次 ip config. 做成自動 profile 真係甘難? Windows都 _ 左十幾年重係甘, 點解新出世既 android 又係甘架? 重有 VPN 去鬼左邊呢? 甘都要靠 3rd party 搭救??
• 辨別曾連接過及自動連接 Wifi AP 既能力, 同 iPhone 比有如低能同常人之別. Android 係 Wifi 連線中如因故斷線, 或進入待機模式後, 絕不要期望短時間內能自動重接, 定要人手干預, 重新開關 Wifi 先有望. 係, 唔係<得>, 係<有望(可能)>…有時佢會見到曾連接過既 AP, list 住 remembered 但係又唔連過去, 大佬真係蠢到要 click 佢先識駁.  相比 iPhone , 好多呢 d 濕濕碎碎野都識自動波, 減少用家因煩鎖設定而感到煩厭. (我就因為 Android 甘戇居而好煩厭)
• Virtual Keyboard 7 到無朋友.  自動糾正功能被動又不準確; 鍵盤每個掣 Size 已經細 (Android 機 Display size 細過 iPhone…), 對按掣感應亦相當差, 連低能的糾錯能力, 手大如我痛不欲生, 打字簡即係受罪, 浪費生命一樣.

  p.s. 幸好有比得上 iphone 的 Better Keyboard 及 AnysoftKeyboard代替.前者同 iphone 既打字感幾乎無分別, 後者則只係差少少. 然而前者本地無法從 Market 下載, 假如嫌煩用後者就好.

• 打電話個版面反應唔爽, 似乎無推到最高priority執行, 呢個唔知邊個既錯.
  一部 Smartphone 搞甘多花臣得黎, 都唔好忘記電話本質, 係要打得出收得到先得架. 打電話按個掣都要等一陣, 簡直係倒退.
• 唔知個 OS 既 Priority 點分, 由打電話到 back to home 都好窒…唉. 對系統架構有認識既人, 都知 System vital/critical 既 service/app 會被派予更高重要性, 以免一般程式發癲, overload 及非法執行時奪走系統的基磋運行力而引致系統癱瘓(即無晒反應, 頻臨崩潰). 難得係 Android 同 iPhone OSX 亦係同父異母血統 (前者似係 Linux based, 後者 BSD Unix based), 表現可差甘鬼多. Google 開發同微調上真係要再加 200%-300% 勁先得. 相比佢地其他 Web App., Android 可謂最渣最唔成熟.

其實好多功能同操作經歷, 都係被 iPhone 的方便同體貼性寵壞.
iphone 出左甘耐亦多用戶認同其操作方式, 設計上自有其過人之處. 後來者唔比佢好, 或者以佢作起跑點競爭, 真係好難理解. 或者部份開發者完全不認同 apple 的心思吧…

Anyone else interested in the new Google Android phones?  I have been a long time Verizon subscriber and have been waiting for a smart phone ever since the iPhone first came out.  I refused to leave Verizon since I have been a very satisfied customer.  I almost jumped ship with the announcement of the Palm Pre, but at last I was not convinced it was the phone for me.

Now that Verizon has struck a partnership with Google, they have released two new Google Android phones.  Not sure if you all have been following the news (I am a tech geek at heart, what can I say), but today was the official release for the the HTC Droid Eris $99.00, and the Motorola Droid $199.00.  Since I have been a long time customer of Verizon I automatically get a $100.00 credit to renew my contract off any phone, so essentially I can get the new Eris for free, except that I would have to pay the taxes.  Although the Droid is an overall better phone, and bigger I do personally like the smaller Eris.

Hopefully over the weekend I’ll decide which phone to get.  I am mostly undecided because I do like the actual specs on the Droid, but I really do love the UI Sense on the Eris and it’s compact size.  I demo both yesterday and to my surprise the Eris felt really good in my hand.  Oh well I see what happens.

On the contrary to regular phones, Google phone has an Operating System made by Google. They call it Android platform.

I used it for 2 days and I am not very impressed. It’s a new phone, ugly and I don’t see it being better than iphone at this point.

My opinion is that it will be better to buy in the next one or maybe two years.

Anyone has tried it?

http://www.thinkaloo.com

本為新玩具到手而喜悅的內容，卻因過渡時的悲劇(Orz…)而刪掉。
以下恐佈經歷來自向友人的敘述…

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我的跳船記 [由 iPhone 2G 改搾三叔銀河號機械人]

話說自己一向用開 PDA, 自從有 iphone, 部 th55 就榮休退隱博物館.

其間留意過不少 PPC\WM 幾, 舊個D就不提了, 然而就算勁如 x1,
仍因 WM 先天各種殘疾, 浪費大好硬體, 仍然令我卻步.

後來 G 社推出機械人, 睇落似搞開放式 iphone osx, 不過第一水機價炒味濃, 當然就睇定d再算.
等下等下, 祖師爺 HTC 都出到第 3 代, 其他廠亦陸續出招;  更重要在多左人玩同討論, 軟件量亦激增,
心想係時候出手. 研究過 HTC magic 及三叔 Galaxy 兩者後,
受”圖畫美麗~顏色秀麗~立體甘滯~ ” 既因由而投奔銀河…

然已..投奔過程從無想過甘痛苦, 一波未平一波友起…而且極為黑仔…

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話說買機當晚, 打算 sycn iphone 準備過 phonebook.
點知 sync 完就成個 phonebook 唔見左! 當下心內大驚 , 左巢右挖backup….
用旁門左道搞一大輪都唔惦, 搞到成 5am…
第二日, 返到 office 搵到份新 D backup 就搞惦左, 但係成日就離晒魂……..

跟手係 itune 過埋 phonebook 去 outlook, 再由三叔同步軟件食返.
諗住惦啦掛…. 點知隻 software 望唔到部電話, 搞到收工都唔知咩事.
返到屋企再磨一輪先知, 因為 set 左 “connect as mass storage only” XYZ@#%!@!
disable 後, 又諗住實食無黐牙… 到埋門一腳, 個同步選項話部電話<不支援>!
WTF???? 又出咩問題??? 上網再 search 一大輪, 得出了驚人結論 : 三叔應該在同行中作出史無前例(?)的6+1事.

“在產品中附帶的同步軟件, 並不支援同捆的機體”
WTFIGO????有無搞_錯????? 甘樣賣野都得? 真係把幾火!!!!

谷住道火之餘, 都要硬住頭皮整下去…諗到將 contact export .csv 再sync入電話.
點知三叔個軟件 export 出既.csv,  field 名係獨家村, google 認唔到… 甘不如直接係 outlook export 啦…
好不幸地, “你未裝export csv plug-in 呀老友” 既msg box 彈出…
甘咪裝返囉…誰知試左幾次都係中途有error..
頂佢唔順, 決定返 office 再戰 (大佬唔使訓咩…Orz)

可_可惜, office 隻outlook 又係無 plug-in, 又係重裝中途死, 黑仔過土人 … 唯有重裝.
真係頂佢個_ , 重裝又無事窩!!  zY!@R!#$$^!@#…
終於 gmail 認到了, 重 feed 得好靚仔, 諗住有覺好訓啦掛…
然而, 絕招好野更係留到最後…

當晚打算整理好 app 同 setting, 然後行埋 my backup 就大功告成.
就黎 set 完之際, 部機 Hang 左!!!
甘.. 呢 d 機 hang 唔奇, reboot囉…不過部機就進入”全自動無間斷 reboot “既輪迴狀態….你重可以點呢#um2
又被逼研究一輪, 結論只有有 hard reset 佢, 即係….之前裝既所有 program, set 既所有野都要由頭來過.

算唔算白忙呢? #um2  Orz………..
就算重 set 係 1-2hr 內完成都好…我都好灰, 完全無乜用新機既興奮

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又講下三同步軟件既6+1事

• UI 外表好靚, 但係用 performance 換返黎既! 唔該套 library 唔惦就唔好玩呢家野啦.
• 出個 drive  browsing list 都要成十來秒…CLS.
• 過相個 part 有得做 batch resize. 但係低能到不行. e.g. 揀 800×600, 結果係直度既相強行拉闊晒!
• 白痴到極 #angry3
• 話有得用藍牙連接又係呃_人, 隻電話本身都唔受駁, 簡直誤導人
• 轉戲個度好, build in convertor叫方便
• 其他功能睇到想做一站式處理, 但係操作反應好慢, 無心機搞(我只係要同步….同步呀!!!)

如果知部機配套係甘6+1, 真係唔貪個 display 同相機.
家陣好似貪果盆中計 feel, 好想囉返去加錢換 Hero 算 -___-

關於 Android 的不滿

• IP跟AP/hotspot 的設定分開設定. 呢個又係不明所以既設計. iPhone 係 set once and forget, Android 重要人去到邊就手動改一次 ip config. 做成自動 profile 真係甘難? Windows都 _ 左十幾年重係甘, 點解新出世既 android 又係甘架? 重有 VPN 去鬼左邊呢?  甘都要靠 3rd party 搭救??
• 打電話個版面都唔爽, 似乎無推到最高priority執行,  呢個唔知邊個既錯.
  一部  Smartphone 搞甘多花臣得黎, 都唔好忘記電話本質, 係要打得出收得到先得架. 打電話按個掣都要等一陣, 簡直係倒退.

其實好多功能同操作經歷, 都係被 iPhone 的方便同體貼性寵壞.
iphone 出左甘耐亦多用戶認同其操作方式, 設計上自有其過人之處. 後來者唔比佢好, 或者以佢作起跑點競爭, 真係好難理解. 或者部份開發者完全不認同 apple 的心思吧…