Seriously though, good, concise, informative video as always. Thanks:)

Apple and Google will be catching each others up for some time, and probably will be the only 2 major players in mobile market. Microsotf once again thought it owned the market and when finally awakened it was already too late; and Blackberry…. well, I just can’t see what everybody saw in it: big device, small screen.

Nice resolution Eris gives @ 2:40…. *very nice* resolution…

It would be good to see a review of the 2 hottest things in mobile world right now: HTC Evo (android), and the iPhone 4

Oh, and as a programmer, I can say that I have written applications for both android and iPhone and android is infinitely easier to develop for. A friend pointed out that it’s no wonder why iPhone apps are so ridiculously expensive; they’re a bloody nightmare to write!

I had the G1 and am now the proud owner of a Nexus One. Both run modded versions of android giving me the freshest updates from Google and the best additions from the community (long live open source!) and they are both still well supported, fully usable, high quality phones. How many updates do you see apple making for the original iPhone? Yet the original android phone, G1, is alive and well and there is much talk of an official Froyo release for it. Even if there isn’t one, due to android’s open source nature, the community is guaranteed to make one.

And finally, you’re awesome Nixie. Thanks for being an awesome, intelligent and public face for Linux and Open Source. And shoot, you’re as pretty as they come too.

(I hope you didn’t break your phone. I dropped my mytouch a few times and wanted to punch myself in the back of the face… the back of the face? Anyways).

Apple will come out on top and here’s the reasons why. You mentioned the philosophical differences that Apple has in contrast with Google and the Android market. The downside to Apple’s restrictions is that there’s no freedom. The upside is that all the Applications released are at least held to some sort of standard. There are some kids going through college that are told that in order for them to graduate medical school they MUST have an iphone or an iMaxipad (sorry… couldn’t resist.) Anyways — there are applications that are fully FCC approved in that Doctors are able to monitor the people they give care for while on the other side of the planet. They are able to sync their phone up with their vitals and with many hospital oriented equipment and the list goes on and on. The iphone is an invaluable tool.

Furthermore, the iphone both produces the hardware and the software for the iphone and so this means that they make a 100% profit whenever they sell a phone.

Now… Google has messed up in a variety of ways. Financially they made the bad decision of not making their own phone. But even though they didn’t decide to go that route and just supply an operating system for phone manufacturers that AREN’T Google — they made the mistake of settling with multiple phone manufacturers.

Had they settled with HTC, for example, they would be making a much better profit. But now that they’ve managed to provide their operating system to multiple phone manufacturers such as Morola, HTC, and etc… the two biggest competitors with the Android phones is Apple (of course) and Android… (That sounds stupid, I know… but think about it. If someone buys a Motorola Droid Google made a profit, but the HTC Eris didn’t make a sale, and so Google’s contract with HTC suffers… and the same applies when the reverse happens. So Google decided to stretch themselves thin when they did this… no matter… they’re like the third biggest company in the world).

So, on regards to the business model, Apple wins hands over fist.

What I WOULD like to see is Android coming out with MP3 players. I personally have an HTC Mytouch… I hate it… its hardware is crap. Oh well. But I use it none the less. I’m dirt poor and come on hard times. So the service with my phone has been canceled. My phone doesn’t receive a cellular signal, but it connects to wifi and it functions as a slightly more advanced MP3 player… this makes me feel as though I should have gone the smart route. I should have gotten an MP3 player (in this case an itouch and gotten a VERY simple phone… aint that just a kick in the iballs).

I’m a HUGE fan of Linux and I’m happy when I see Google supporting it. So if Android helped produce some MP3′s then I wouldn’t be forced to go to the itouch later on in life. (I hate itunes…)

On regards to business philosophy, I’m a bigger fan of Android.

On computers, Linux has a better sense of security. That’s cool. BUT its software, though good, isn’t as good as other operating systems… and I feel and see that this seems to be a running trend that’s occupying the Android market. Its applications are nice, but they’re not as stunning and effective as the iphone’s.

Anyways, those are my thoughts.

As for me, I’m using the Verizon Droid and I love it. And not just because it’s based on Linux and thus promotes the advancement of humankind and technology with scientific openness … although that is always a big factor with me. But also because with Android and Google’s azilink, Linux users can tether their phones as a modem to Linux via the USB cable. It’s a lot faster than my blackberry was…

Here’s an article I wrote up on it (using Droid and Ubuntu GNU/Linux 9.10/10.04)…
http://www.humans-enabled.com/2009/12/how-to-tether-your-verizon-droid-as.html

Do you think you can test it and see if it works for you? The only difference, as I’m sure you will probably recognize, is that you will have to change the values in step #4 to match your lsusb output for the Droid Eris. If it does work, could you let me know the lsusb output for your phone so I can show it in the posting?

Thanks and congrats on your GNU/Linux freedom!
Shannon VanWagner
humans-enabled.com

I have to say that Android does look cool, as does Maemo, which I’ve seen on the n900 and it looks nice. I think that some of the bigger players are starting to get the idea that Apple’s weakness is it’s technological police-state feel, and that open source could play a role in unseating them.

That’s just the core software though: Apple’s app-store still has huge appeal compared to the competition, and HTC/Nokia hardware needs to be beefed up to compete with Apple. This is the problem with Maemo/Android: you can do so much with it that it needs more power to do the same thing as the iPhone, which has a slick custom OS designed to do relatively few things, but to do them well.

Nevertheless a nice review, but not completely objective (you own one yourself missy)

Yeah, the keay are still a little laggy, but better than the malfunctioning one.

My battery life is low, mostly because I can’t keep from playing with new apps on it.