With the release of the Nexus One, or so-called GooglePhone, imminent, more images and a video have surfaced. The images below have been released by a Google employee, as well as a short video of the device in action, which can be seen over at TechCrunch

Ok, listing mobile OS’es, we’ve got iPhone OS, Windows Mobile, Symbian (does anyone actually like that? I’d use it for an N97 and the 8MP camera, but still….), webOS (anything else Palm – related), and anything else? But who cares, because in the opposite corner is… in one word…

Android.

Android is spreading like an infection, but a good one. D’ya see all the leaked Android phones coming just from HTC next year? Ok, so that aside, I’ll stop making Android look awesome even though I’m still on iPhone.

But let’s look at what’s happening.

If the Nexus One turns out to be just another Dev-Phone, Half-HTC, Half-Google, then there is no purpose for this post. But since there is a trademark filing for “Nexus One” by Google, and the trademark requires that this be a product to be sold, (ahem, uh, “trademark”), we can be 99.9999999999% sure it’s happening. There’s still 0.0000000001 chance it won’t, I choose the majority.

But here’s what Google’s done so far. They’ve rolled out Android out on plenty of phones on different manufacturers, and having Android as the base for other devices, [nook, anyone?] it’s taking a Microsoft and Windows [Mobile] take to it.

By this, I mean, Microsoft has rolled out Windows [XP, Vista, 7] [Mobile] onto many computers/phones and this is good to have a variety of devices, but it can be problem causing.

Switch to what Google isn’t doing… yet.

This is Apple. Apple made an iPhone, one sole device, with one sole OS. This is good for the same reason that Microsoft’s model can be troublesome. Different devices have different hardware. It’s as simple as that. Android needs to work on all of these devices.

And, it takes to long to choose what device to get. (Eris, Droid, Hero, myTouch?)

Whereas with iPhone, “Oh I want to get something with iPhone OS on it. Oh there’s only one. Ok, so that’s that. {goes and get’s iPhone}”

See? Windows is even more problematic because of drivers and other blah that I don’t worry about cuz I’m A Mac.

But with Nexus One, Google could be pulling an Apple…. any thoughts? Say below in the comments.

This post violates a couple principles I like to keep in mind when blogging. First, it doesn’t have an image, and second, it doesn’t split the main body from the intro, offering a “read more” link.

But, it also has something previous posts on TRW do not have: the the distinction of having been edited and finalized in Post’er, the native WordPress app for webOS and my Palm Pre.

Post’er website: http://poster.nizzoli.net/

Local Bytes

• The Nutter administration announced that the City is buying that municipal wifi network that has been a non-starter from the beginning. They will use it for surveillance and traffic cameras, enabling employees to file reports from the field, and other City purposes. They will invest about $17 million in the next 3 years to improve the network. (Source)
  • Engadget mentioned this story this morning, too. (Source)
• Technically Philly has their always-informative Comcast Roundup. (Source)
• Philadelphia Tech News mentioned the currently-alpha Appify, reported on originally by the New York Times. Basically, Appify is a directory of city-specific applications for Apple, Palm, Android, and Blackberry devices. No access yet to the directory itself, but developers can add their app. Hopefully there will be a strong showing for Philly. (Source)

Everything Else

• DailyTech reports that the Playstation 3 will support the newly-announced Blueray 3D specification. (Source)
• Ars Technica mentioned that the next iteration of Ubuntu Linux will include a panel overhaul and a new social networking component. Always exciting news for nerds like me, who use Ubuntu as their primary OS.  (Source)
• Engadget posted about how Apple stole Johnny Chung Lee’s head-tracking idea, which I first saw him present on TED. (Source)
• The New York Times Bits technology blog mentioned that the Google phone’s name, Nexus One, sounds like a reference to the androids in Phillip K. Dick’s story Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep?, on which the kickass 1982 flick Blade Runner was based. (Source)

Edited at 5:30pm, December 17, 2009 to add categories, links and tags.

The widely rumored Gphone hit the news few days ago in the widely commented Android dogfood diet for the holidays post on Google Mobile blog:

“We recently came up with the concept of a mobile lab, which is a device that combines innovative hardware from a partner with software that runs on Android to experiment with new mobile features and capabilities, and we shared this device with Google employees across the globe. This means they get to test out a new technology and help improve it.”

Many spent few words about this statement and, by reading this post on Zdnet I’ve got too few thoughts about it.

Main points raised on Larry Dignan’s post on ZDnet were about product price point and, in general, commercialization strategy (subsidy, selling it unlocked, carriers involvement): to be true seems that most of them have been outdated in a day by the upcoming news.

In fact, just few hours later, sites like HTC Source substantially sort out all details about handset commercialization model, actually giving the impression that such discussion was started months ago (at least between the members of the Android historic team BigG, HTC and T-Mobile – remember the G1?).

It seems that the handset will be sold online (not very clear where and how) by the 5th of January (!) being cross-subsidized by BigG and T-mobile (that is apparently the first Operator to embrace the product) at an extremely aggressive 199$ price point.

As T. Ricker on engadget refers:

“If this device is sold unlocked (as rumored), at a reasonable price (as hoped), and with a jaw dropping user experience (as tweeted), well, it could be very disruptive to the status quo. Then again, that’s a lot of ifs.”

I was quite sure that the first commercialization of the handset would have gone through an Operator:  despite rumors about direct web support, Google has no retailer network and despite running service desk support for many of its selling products its capability to offer first level support on handset malfunctions it yet to be proved. Someone at phones review is asking if Verizon is going to do the same as T-Mobile, we’ll see.

I’m also quite curious to understand how Google is going to manage the double-subsidization policy: will 199$ price be fixed? will the commercialization model be common for all Operators? basically promoting the same approach adopted by Apple for the iPhone.

Since carriers battled to subsidize iPhones (despite the very little freedom in commercialization) it’s likely to happen the same, when it comes to a lower price point, since BigG looks for less revenues on product sales (with an eye to mobile advertising core market).

To understand how other carriers will react we need to know more about things like tethering, VOIP or Google Voice: for sure the cooperation with operators is one of the key point to evaluate product success.

Google has often been pragmatic and will probably derogate on too disruptive features in case those make the conflict with operators rise threatening the whole project. While has been demonstrated that Google Voice is not under discussion I’m quite sure that tethering can be easily dropped in favor of a better Operator sustainability.

For sure the product has potential: Google is driving innovation by defining a Proof of Concept that Android is capable to deliver the best UX available on market and by creating new ways of communication such as Waveing.

So far the combination seems too appealing for customers to be ostracized from any of the players in the mobile business chain.

A confirmation that the device will be so aggressive in terms of price (199$ IS aggressive!) is the presence of the well known Google partner, the asian, Taiwanese, OEM HTC.

Someone is noticing that no HTC logo is present on mock ups spotted up to now: HTC can use this product to improve its market share and its brand perception, I ‘m sure that HTC logo will appear somewhere on the phone: HTC has surely been asked to keep the BOM low, I’m sure that they spent much effort on the project and seems strange not seeing its brand anyway on the product….but, let’s see, this is just an experiment in a product line, the involvement could be seen at long term, hard to say.

Apparently product will run Android 2.1 Flan, to be released, according to electronista ultra shortly, on Dec. the 11th.

All those big expectations rely on the overall product quality further than price. The user experience delivered by the handset must be absolutely astonishing and shool look at opening to embracing other players of today’s  web experience in the project… did you heard about Phonebook 2.0? Facebook and Twitter?

Google can effectively help them monetize their communities, as it’s doing by indexing their contents. I’m sure they’re already working together to make things work perfectly as a whole.

The threatened player here seems Apple, that will likely soon suffer from a more open, collaborative, probably cheaper and more sustainable competitor (for other chain players): Google is not interested in the same business, BigG only need users, not passionate brand lovers.

At the end of the discussion the true losers here seem handset vendors formerly involved in the OHA: probably Google is getting a bit impatient but, for sure, they looked lazy to the boss making BigG came up with the decision of home brewing the perfect Googlephone (that was meant to be the Moto Droid). It’s indubitably hard to manage for Motorola: actually seems that this handset will compete with the Droid that, anyway, keeps a slight different target in terms of market proposition thanks to its QWERTY Keyboard.

From a features perspective, as said, the phone will be the first being empowered by Android Flan (I don’t believe that the OTA update for Motorola Droid or HTC Hero will be released in advance). Flan has been so far characterized by a hardly arguable feature roadmap, and despite being just 0.1 away from Éclair (rumored for being a somehow Motorola exclusive) will probably introduce some significant changes and UX improvements.

If Google wants to brand this product as strong as it seems I’ld expect also a small set of first fruits such as, a googlewave client (why not?), a Chrome Mobile port (probably not) with flash enabled (hopefully) and truly optimized service integration features such as finally mature location awareness or augmented reality with user generated content such as GoogleGoggles.

What a disruptive start for mobile industry’s 2010! Don’t be too quiet in your Enterprise(s), a Nexus is arriving…

NEXUS arriving

All the news about Google Nexus the last couple of days (including us today) have caused quite a stir. Our own post of the forthcoming Nexus coming to T-Mobile in January and this WSJ article which states Google may release the device without a carrier partner, said the WSJ, are “people familiar with the matter”, have taken over the interwebs news feeds.

All the speculations and rumors may be very true, but an interesting tidbit of information was sitting right there in front of our eyes courtesy of some photos posted on Engadget of the Nexus One. The photo 11 of 11 seemed vaguely familiar to us in a strange way. The picture shows the Android OS with some sort of  “card view”, which is eerily similar to Palm’s webOS.

I applaud the additional feature, if that’s what this really is; a “card view” like ability with live applications running in the background. While this was a breakthrough feature from Palm’s webOS to bring life-like, desktop like computing to a handset, it is reasonable to question if this is a legal infringement on the part of Google’s next Android release to “simulate” the card view experience currently enjoyed by many Palm Pre and Pixi owners.

It’s not like there aren’t any patent infringement lawsuits happening between other manufactures, right?

Hot news is that a Google-branded Android 2.1 phone has been seen in the wild (as actually manufactured by HTC, makers of whatever delightful plastic rubbish they have out now). Anyway, that’s all well and good for the employees rumoured to have them, but apart from them, who else would buy a Google phone?

Think about it: lots and lots of Google tools rely on the Internet, and so do quite a few Android apps. If this is the case, firstly: where in the world will support this net use, and secondly: who really wants to donate all their data to Google servers?

In the US, Europe and the “rest of the [smartphone using] world”, the data services of many networks are struggling to cope with the traffic brought on by the iPhone, Droid and so on. Now imagine a Google phone using even more of that space. Remember that Google is primarily a web services company so all their products will need to be online more.

Also, cloud computing is all well and good, but who really wants to give strangers mostly unencrypted data when the only guarantee is that the holders of the keys “won’t be evil”? And what if data is not backed up and then lost for ever (see also: Sidekick)?

This, then, is why I presume that the only people to use this Google phone will be lunatics, Google employees or users of a magical new 4G data connection. Something which, knowing Google, they will eventually roll out and become a household name in.

Chances are you have seen that some Googlers’ were tweeting about the rumored Google Phone at their last meeting of the year. Descriptions vary from simply “beautiful” to “A sexy beast. Like an iPhone on beautifying steroids.” Beyond the vague praise the only real information among all the tweets was that the phone is made by HTC, unlocked, runs Android 2.1, has animated home screen backgrounds and is due out in January. Hmm…does that sound a bit like something else we’ve heard about?

Now unlocked means that this thing is most likely GSM and so sadly not precisely what is coming to Verizon, but if you recall from the leaked HTC codenames in the 2.1 ROM there is both a HTC Passion and a HTC PassionC. Based on some of the existing device code names with “C”s next to them it was deduced that it probably stands for CDMA. If Google is really making a play at having the top dog Android phone out there would be no reason for them to limit it to one or the other. Here’s hoping come January no one is left out in the cold on this “sexy beast”.

It sounds like more info will hit the intertubes in relatively short order so stay tuned.

Update: TechCrunch is speculating that this will be a direct sell from Google as an unlocked GSM device. That would definitely preclude Verizon from getting in on the party. I still am holding out hope that this is just a slightly spun version of the Passion and that we will be getting the same tech on Verizon. I personally think that the posting on Google Blog points to testing of a high level new device, but a similar process went on with the Droid prior to release, so I’m not entirely sold on TC’s theory yet.

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.

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.

Google ha demostrado ser una empresa con cojones, no solo se ha negado ha ser comprada por mounstruos del sistema, se ha dedicado a dar golpes a los mismo.

Gmail dio grandes espacios de almacenamiento cuando los otros cobran(ban), Google maps es un GPS gratuito, Chrome se volvio rapidamente popular entre los navegadores, Google Doc’s deo a segundo plano la necesidad de comprar licencias para ver tus documentos y los llevo a otro nivel, pero ahora???

Pues Google ya anuncio el Googlephone que no solo llevara su primer sistema operativo, se espera que la mayor sorpresa sea la aplicacion que permitira hacer llamadas sin cargo dentro de los Estados Unidos. El telefono se cree sera fabricado por THC y sin duda pondra a temblar al mismo iPhone.

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

Since I get out of work at 1pm on Fridays I was going to jet on over to the Regal and see the live action GI Joe film, but in big red letters on fandango.com they advised NO PASSES. So it looks like I’ll have to chill for a couple of weeks , which in the long run is probably better. If they blamed twitter for BRUNO’s second day drop-off, I can only imagine the kind of damage that website is going to do to GI JOE. Perhaps COBRA is the party responsible for the DNS attack on Twitter and Facebook these past few days. Nefarious? Yes. Plausible? YOU TELL ME.

Either way I can’t seem to get my tumblr set up at work to access twitter, and this is day two of my tweet drought. Here’s hoping they didn’t shut down Tumblr’s API or something. If they did I might have to go get me one of them fancy phones a week or two ahead of schedule. So far T-Mobile looks like the best bet. I really like that G1 phone, and it would only cost me like 70 bucks a month for the unlimited data plan. Everyone tells me their service sucks, but what good is good service if I have to pay 100s of bucks a month in data charges.

Samsung debutta con Galaxy i7500 il primo smartphone Samsung con Android

Galaxy i 7500

Con Galaxy i7500, Samsung entra ufficialmente nel mercato italiano con uno smartphone con sistema Android.

Galaxy i 7500 è un prodotto dal design innovativo ed elegantemolto, dal punto di vista delle specifiche tecniche è  praticamente identico ai prodotti dei concorrenti più gettonati, e ha ovviamente inclusi tutti i servizi Google.

Galaxy i7500 dispone di una fotocamera da 5 megapixel e ben 8 gb di memoria integrata espandibile fino a 32 gb.

Arriverà sul mercato Italiano distribuito da Wind e dalle grandi catene di distribuzione di elettronica di consumo.

Fonti:

Sito:    www.infotecno.it          http://blog.libero.it/infotecno

I picked one of these up this week as I thought it was time I finally checked out FP2.  Now before anyone points out I could have picked up the all mighty N97 I will say now it was all down to money.  the 5800 I could afford and the N97 is just out of my reach at the moment.

I am not going to carry out a full review here as like most phones that come out I am way behind the usual bloggers who get review handsets so this is just about my early opinions.

Firstly I wanted to check out Nokia’s touch screen capability as although touch screen isn’t really my favourite way to input it does seem to be the future so its best to try and get used to it now.

As you may know I did own a T Mobile G1 and the touch on that was impressive and I will say now Nokia you have some work to do, why oh why did you make it resistive? and people don’t want to have to mess about with Stylus or a Guitar Pick????? for any kind of text input. I have stuck with the standard alphanumeric dial pad input as I haven’t really mastered the full keyboard input as of yet, but ok it still does work and so far it hasn’t caused me many issues just using my fingers so I won’t harp on about it too much.  The screen itself is very nice though very bright, clean and crisp and has impressed me so far.

It’s a very plasticy (sic) handset but feels sturdy enough, so from that point of view it’s actually well designed and put together (I have put a full screen exim screen protector on it also and it doesn’t affect the touch ability at all) It’s blue stripe one and I have noticed that in a certain light the whole phone has a slight blue tint to it which again I do like.

Software wise there are a few differences I have noticed and I actually like the way you can organise folders and applications but some things just seem so awkward. One thing of note is syncing, why bury it down in connections and switching profiles for different sync options is just plain daft.

The choice between having an application bar and avatars for people you contact the most is nice but with a tall screen as is why not both? or do something similar to the xpressmusic touch button with the drop down menu which I think is an excellent feature, surely a contacts one could have been developed also?

One thing I have been pleased about is that all of the 3rd party applications that I always use work flawlessly. Gravity, Profimail, Handy Weather etc and things like the BBC’s iPlayer is great in widescreen mode.

The camera is better than I anticipated, it makes me laugh now when I think “oh well its only 3.2mp but it will do” it just shows how far handsets are come when 3.2mp on a handset is not seen as a major thing, but I have been pleasantly surprised with some of the photo’s I have taken.

I was concerned when I read that people were complaining of “smoky tints” and blurring and were resorting to removing the cover to get decent images which suggested that it was less to do with the Carl Zeiss optics and more to do with the plastic lens cover.  Now I except that you are not going to get some kind of mineral glass lens cover but surely if you are going to big up the fact that you are using Carl Zeiss then you want to source a decent lens cover to support it.

But I haven’t had to do any of this? I don’t know if Nokia have made any changes from earlier production models but mine seems fine for what it is which pleases me no end or have people just had “dodgy” versions? who knows but I am happy which is all that matters to me.

The picture above was taken the day after I received the handset, it was a quick point and shoot from a carpark and its a decent enough replication of what the day was like, the clouds are slightly more prominent in colour but overall for something that was taken on the fly with all settings automatic then I think it’s pretty damn good. I uploaded it straight to Flickr from the phone and have linked it to here as is.

I suppose seeing as this is an xpressmusic handset then I should mention audio, and yes it’s fine it really is, I don’t like the headphones as I prefer inner ear noise cancelling so I will buy a set for it but the music player is fine and the audio quality is good enough for what I expect.

I could go on but then it would just cover what some of the more in depth reviews have covered that you can find on the bigger phone blogs.  Overall though I think this is a fun handset and I am enjoying the early experience with it.  Yes some of the menu/feature functions seem to be a bit less intuitive on FP2 and yes I really do believe that resistive was a mistake and Nokia have a fair bit of work to do around touch technology but its not too far away and I am sure that they will progress with it and future handsets will be right up their with the competition.

C’est une immense nouvelle pour tous les geeks du monde qui œuvrent depuis tant d’années à la grande réconciliation: Apple et Google ont enfin décidé de s’unir pour nous faire entrer dans le monde fusionnel de l’iGooglePhone.

Rien ne sera plus jamais comme avant.

Hallucinant! D’une épaisseur de 1 mm, le iGooglePhone a tous les pouvoirs:

1- il connait ta position avant même que tu y sois arrivé

2- il peut te dire l’heure qu’il sera dans un an

3- il sait déjà le prénom de tes enfants avant même ta puberté

4- il est capable de courir pour toi et de faire ainsi baisser ton taux de tri-glycérides pendant que tu joues toute la nuit à World of Warpigs avec tes chips et ton cognac.

5- il est capable sur commande vocale de réorganiser les règles de la chimie vitale: nous avons testé “fais que le reblochon dissolve les graisses”.

6- il sait dans les moments difficiles remplacer avantageusement Dieu et/ou ta femme.

7- équipé d’un etourdissomètre d’une extrême précision, il peut se substituer à ta dose d’héroïne en cas de manque.

8- également équipé d’un nouveau rebontissomètre qui le fera revenir dans ta main que tu préfères, il te suffit de le jeter fortement par terre pour que le sol s’ouvre et qu’une boisson fraiche apparaisse, ceci afin de te déshydrater de ta soif que tu as dedans.

9 – un quintuple clic sur une image de ton choix ne fait rien.

10- il suffit de l’acheter avec de l’argent pour le posséder.

Bref, une folle ribambelle de nouvelles nouveautés qui feront à coup sûr de cet engin extraordinaire la réponse étonnante à la question qui taraude le monde numérique depuis le 1er janvier 1970: l’iPhone Killer était donc un iPhone, mais with Google inside

ah et au fait, ils ont enlevé la fonction téléphone. Sert à rien.

Disclaimer: article écrit sous licence CB (Complete Bullshit)

I am half-heartedly going through my PowerBook, preparing it to be Linux-ized. Not because it really needs to be; I just feel like having a project to work on. I’ve never had a computer that both functioned and wasn’t being used regularly. There is nothing Linux will do for it that it can’t do already. Just to see if I can make it work. And it’s helping divert my new phone desire. Now that the GooglePhone is in Canada I’m having to stave off envious thoughts. It has a keyboard, which I find I miss from my old Treo.

Android cupcake this morning!

Stamattina per colazione: Cupcake!

Molti avranno già capito che sto parlando del famigerato aggiornamento OTA del firmware dell’ HTC G1 che a inizio maggio doveva essere “spinto” da Google su tutti i telefonini android europei, firmware 1.5 conosciuto per l’appunto come Cupcake.

In realtà parte delle sue funzionalità erano già fruibili grazie a un gruppo ben nutrito di sviluppatori che in parallelo ed anticipatamente avevano già rese disponibili diverse apps che puntavano su alcune caratteristiche di Cupcake, soft keyboard (tastiera virtuale touch) per prima.

Innanzitutto ho subito cercato se era disponibile la localizzazione in italiano: non c’è, ma penso che la motivazione vada cercata nel fatto che il mio Htc è stato importato da Amburgo (Germania) e dunque con OS un po’ differente da quelli circolanti in Italia ora.

Per il resto, è stata una piacevole scoperta delle varie caratteristiche.

Il telefono mi appare un poco più veloce nelle varie transazioni e operazioni di caricamento di schermate; non la stessa percezione ho avuto invece con il boot che mi pare più lungo di diversi secondi.
Mi auguro che il nuovo firmware possa ottimizzare i consumi della batteria ma questa è un test che ad oggi dopo un solo giorno non riesco ancora a fare.

Migliorata la navigazione web all’interno del browser di default; i comandi mi paiono molto più comodi.

La noia è stata quella di dover upgradare tutte le apps installate alle versioni 1.5 compatibili. Per cui consiglio vivamente di procedere all’aggiornamento dell’OS e degli applicativi quando si ha del tempo libero e soprattutto una connessione wireless.

Migliorata graficamente l’interfaccia del calendario: da uno sfondo nero si è passato a un miglior leggibile (a mio parere) background bianco.

Aggiunto anche nativamente l’app (Camcorder) per poter utilizzare la fotocamera per girare dei video.

In più è apparso anche Google Talk (di cui personalmente non ne sentivo la mancanza).

Per il primo giorno è tutto! A voi la linea ed i commenti!

Ulf Pettersson har under 2 månaders tid sålt mobiltelefoner från sin site Googlephone.se.
Nu tvingas han dock att ge bort domänen till Google utan ersättning!?

– Jag tyckte att det var ett bra namn som skulle dra mycket besök, vilket är syftet med det hela, att nå ut, säger Ulf Pettersson.

När Ulf Pettersson inte gick med på att lämna över domännamnet vände sig Google till IIS, för att göra en alternativ tvisteprövning. Google hävdade bland annat att företaget har rättigheter till alla domännamn som börjar med bokstäverna Google.

I beslutet står att ”ingen person som agerar aktivt på internet kan vara ovetande om Sökanden och dess varumärke Google.” 

Det hela slutade med att Google nu äger domänen och Ulf Petterssons verksamhet/hobby kommer troligtvis nu att läggas ned.

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Ich habe die Sache nun länger untersucht und bin zu dem Schluss gekommen: Wenn man die zur Verfügung gestellte Gmail App auf dem Googlephone nutzt und eine Nachricht versehentlich in den Spamfolder oder Papierkorb geschoben hat, bekommt man die dort nie mehr raus, jedenfalls nicht mit der Gmail App selbst! Man muss vielmehr zu mail.google.com gehen und via Web-Interface die Nachricht hervorholen. Falls jemand einen Weg findet, eine Nachricht ohne solche Umwege wieder herzustellen: Bitte um Hilfe und Info! Aber wie ich das sehe, schaut es so aus:

Wenn man in der Posteingangs-Ansicht ist und dann auf “Labels anzeigen” klickt….

… bekommt man alle verfügbaren Labels angezeigt:

…sowohl die manuell vergebenen (im Beispiel z.B. _Eilt) als auch die vom System verwendeten (wie z.B. Spam oder Papierkorb).

In dieser Ansicht kann man die Nachrichten aber nicht bearbeiten (um das Label zu ändern, z.B. das Label Spam zu entfernen ) – dazu muss man in die Ansicht der einzelnen Nachricht gehen.

Wenn ich nun also in den Spamfolder gehe und dort eine Nachricht auswähle, dann auf “Labels ändern” gehe…

…dann erhalte ich eine Labelliste in der, abgesehen von Posteingang, nur noch die manuell vergebenen Labels enthalten sind. Spam gibt es nicht.

Das Label Spam kann ich darum auch nicht entfernen, somit die Nachricht nicht in die Inbox befördern. Ich kann auf das Plus neben Posteingang klicken, aber dann passiert original nichts, denn Posteingang und Spam schließen sich aus. Bin ich im Spamfolder, sehe ich, dass die betreffende Nachricht jetzt auch das Label Posteingang trägt, aber im Posteingang ist die Nachricht dennoch nicht zu sehen.

Was tun? Wer weiß was? Ich kann mir ja fast nicht vorstellen, dass die Interfacedesigner einen solchen Fehler gemacht haben sollten – irgendwie sollten doch wenigstens die Google-Anwendungen auf dem Googlephone einwandfrei funktionieren? Ach ja, und dieses Blogpost ist KEIN Aprilscherz.

Google Phone 

SONY ERICSSON IDOU

Sony Ericsson Xperia

Le Samsung Omnia

L’Iphone 3G d’Apple

Les allergiques au monde d’Apple et les fans de Google peuvent se réjouir, le Googlephone a débarqué dans nos contrées.

 Depuis mardi matin, les Belges peuvent se procurer un exemplaire du téléphone mobile développé par HTC et Google sur le site belge Hotgsm. C’est une exclusivité car en principe, le Googlephone n’est normalement pas encore disponible pour le marché belge. Moyennant 399 euros, vous pouvez donc acquérir le concurrent direct de l’iPhone d’Apple, vendu lui à 629 euros auprès du même revendeur. En outre, selon un communiqué relayé par nos confrères du Soir, le Google Phone est livré sans simlock. Autrement dit, vous pouvez librement choisir votre opérateur téléphonique.

Après le bouleversement qu’Apple a créé dans le marché de la téléphonie mobile et l’impact de celui-ci a causé auprès des consommateurs, la firme californienne « Google » est sur le point de changer la donne.

Android est le nom de scène du système d’exploitation développé par Google qui pour le moment est distribué par le constructeur HTC.

En effet, à ce jour, ce qui fait la force du produit de chez Apple, réside dans l’esthétique et la fluidité du système d’exploitation à utilisation tactile.

Le premier Google-Phone a était lancé dans la gamme Orange, le HTC Dream (G1) donnant un avant gout de leurs savoir faire avec un produit aussi conviviale et fluide que celui de chez Apple.

Mais il faudra attendre la fin du mois d’avril pour voir arriver le vrai iphone-killer, le HTC Magic (G2) cette fois-ci distribué dans la gamme SFR.

Celui-ci pourra contrairement au HTC Dream de chez Orange, prendre des vidéos et sera compatible avec l’ensemble des outils de Google (synchronisation des contacts et de l’agenda en ligne), chose que curieusement, le HTC Dream ne peux faire pour le moment, faute de tourner sous une version antérieure.

Une bourde de chez Orange ?

Am Samstag Abend begab ich mich zum ersten Mal ins Technische Museum Wien, zu einem fantastischen Konzert mit Geräten von 1909 (dazu später mehr), und ohne Stadtplan, da ich ja genug Telefone mit Kartenapplikationen besitze. Wer kennt und hasst diesen Moment nicht: Man verlässt die U-Bahn, hat eine Karte, weiß aber nicht exakt, wo und vor allem in welche Richtung man sich bewegt. Aber zum Glück gibt es ja GPS-Signale, die einem da weiterhelfen – zumindest in der Theorie.

In der Praxis war mein Googlephone am Samstag hochgradig verwirrt, vielleicht auch, weil ich in den Maps zusätzlich noch Latitude und daneben MyTracks laufen hatte. Auch Mytracks konnte meinen Standort nicht identifizieren, besonders lustig zu beobachten war aber, was auf Maps abging; ob getriggert durch Latitude oder den Button ‘Mein Standort’ kann ich nicht mehr nachvollziehen. Jedenfalls insistierte Maps, dass ich mich irgendwo in Niederösterreich befinde – ästhetisch aufgewertet wurde das Ganze dadurch, dass mein Google-Personen-Icon (siehe unten) in ruckelnden Schritten durch die Pampa wanderte, als wäre ich mit Siebenmeilenstiefeln unterwegs.

Bis nach Wien reichten diese jedoch nicht, und nach einer Weile ließ sich mein Icon dann, passenderweise, in Mürzsteg-Scheiterboden nieder. Wiederholtes Drücken des “Mein Standort”-Knopfes konnte das Telefon nicht von dieser Wahl abbringen, aber evtl. war es ihm doch peinlich – denn mit einem Mal startete es einfach so neu. Na Bumm.

Naja, was macht Frau in so einem Moment, wenn sie dringend den Weg zu einem Konzert finden muss? iPhone herausholen, Standort und Ziel bestimmen, in fünf Minuten zu Fuß da sein:)

Übrigens: Noch bis gestern nacht war ‘Mürzsteg’ als mein Standort in Latitude angegeben – als ich das jetzt dokumentieren wollte (in dem ich mir den “Screen Projector” bei Peter Hoeflehner downloadete; Anleitung siehe hier), hatte Latitude sich aber endlich wieder umentschlossen. Grünbergstraße ist in etwa der Standort der U-Bahnstation, in der ich zwei Stunden später wieder verschwunden war – also immerhin!

Aktualisierung auf aktuellen Standort war heute auch nicht möglich, aber das vergebe ich ihm, da ich nur ans Fenster, aber nicht ganz raus gegangen bin (too cold for a better GPS fix!). Die Fehlermeldung ist allerdings fast schon wieder ein Gedicht: “Wir wissen nicht wo Sie sind, aber wir könnten es rauskriegen, wenn Sie woanders hin gehen.” LOL!

Die beiden anderen Icons im Bild oben sind übrigens meine Latitude Buddies – beide haben nur noch kein Bild eingestellt und bewegen sich überhaupt sehr wenig vom Fleck – wie soll dann die Fernüberwachung Spaß machen:)

Einen Wikitude Screenshot hätte ich jetzt gerne noch nachgereicht, aber dann crashte Projector und mir reichte es erst mal mit den Bugs.

(sorry für die schlechte Bildqualität, das liegt vor allem am Gimp auf meinem Comp, mit dem ich immer noch auf Kriegfuß stehe und keine gescheiten GIFs oder PNGs rauskriege – JPEG bringts aber auch nicht grad als Screenshot.)