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Google Phone Confirmed: They will try to gut the cellular industry

December 13, 2009 by Paul Spoerry Leave a Comment

OK, before I get into the specs, leaks, etc let me explain the title. Right out the gate the major things to know are:

  • They’ll be sold unlocked – no contract required
  • Developed by HTC and sold directly from Google
  • GSM with possibility of UMTS (3G) on AT&T and T-Mobile (what I read here is “SIM CARDS”)
  • CDMA is likely in the future (why would they NOT want Verizon and to a lesser extent Sprint)
  • Android 2.1
  • They just purchased Gizmo5 – next in line to Skype as a VOIP service

The phone itself will be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 1 GHz ARM CPU, it will use an OLED display, and have a capacitive touch screen with on-screen keyboard (*sigh*… I hate touch screen kb’s… I need a physical keyboard).

Daring Firball says they’ve found the strings of a Google phone visitor in their weblogs:

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.1; en-us; Nexus One Build/ERD56C) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/530.17

So back to how they’ll gut the cellular industry… If you add up all the different pieces what you’re looking at is a phone that:

  • Requires no contract
  • Is VOIP enabled
  • Has Google Voice built in

If you REALLY wanted too… you could skip the carriers all together and simply use the phone on open Wifi or even Mifi. At that point the carriers are meaningless. Voice communications via cellular doesn’t fit into Google’s business plan at all. ANYTHING over the Internet, be it voice call via VOIP, text messsages via Google Voice, location based look-up with Google search on your phone, etc go directly to Google’s bottom line… search and advertisements. As far as Google is concerned if the carriers become nothing but data providers… so be it.

Look for this to be released in January (sad they missed the  holiday season). Google KNOWS that mobile is the next major wave of computing. They’ve been angling in this direction for quite some time and the release of an unlocked Google designed phone makes it crystal clear that they intend to dominate mobile in the way they’ve dominated search. It’s not a lock… they have to battle the entrenched iPhone and of course Microsoft is coming out with Windows Mobile 7 (though admittedly they’re moving so slowly that they may miss the bus). The point here is that unlike Apple and Microsoft and RIM, Google is making a move here that in the long run could completely sidestep the major carriers… or at least cause them to be nothing but data providers. We are of course a few years out from anything like this happening en mass… but if you look at what Google is doing that’s definitely a very real possibility.

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Filed Under: Google, Tech Tagged With: Android, google, HTC, iphone

First full video preview of HTC Touch Pro 2 hits the net

April 6, 2009 by Paul Spoerry Leave a Comment

Ok so it’s a bit funny because it comes from Pocketpcitalia so of course it comes with an Italian accent. The video starts with a Metallica song and then this Italian dude showing off the device, it makes it quirky. Oh, several times you can see the reflection of the presenter camera on the glare of the device screen. LOL! Enuf talk… here’s the video of the HTC Touch Pro 2 including TouchFlo3D 2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I66VdgfyO4o&feature=player_embedded

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Filed Under: Gadgets, Tech, Windows Mobile Tagged With: full, HTC, net, video, Windows Mobile

Touch Flo 3D 2 Ripped from Diamond and Ported!

March 24, 2009 by Paul Spoerry 2 Comments

Xboxmod has finished porting the new TouchFlo 3D interface from the newly released Touch Diamond 2. It looks awesome and he was even able to make a cab installer for it. Known as the XBmod Manila Rhodium VGA Beta 1B it includes a landscape version of TouchFlo 3D 2 and automatic screen rotation.

TF3D2 beta1

TouchFlo 3D 2 brings the new HTC goodness like HTC ContactCard, Menu Enhancements, new volume controls and much more. This is available as a CAB file for installation. If you’re a CDMA Touch Pro user I HIGHLY suggest grabbing MightyROM and then getting the TF3D2 enhancements.

Grab the info and CAB straight from the source: XBmod Manila Rhodium VGA Beta 1B

Or grab my preferred ROM: MightyROM

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Filed Under: Gadgets, Tech, Windows Mobile Tagged With: 3d, 3d.cab, flo, HTC, touth

New HTC’s 2009 Devices

January 14, 2009 by Paul Spoerry Leave a Comment

Supposedly the images below represent the 2009 line-up of HTC devices coming out. Of note are the Sprint HD Pro ( Tungsten W), VZW HD Pro (Rhodium W) & the Sprint Jasper. The posters of at PPCGeeks suspect that the Jasper will be the first HTC Android phone for the Sprint network… looks like I might be waiting on getting a new phone after all!  (view all the phones by clicking the Read More link).

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Filed Under: Tech, Windows Mobile Tagged With: Android, google, HTC, sprint, Windows Mobile

HTC Touch Diamond with TouchFlo 3D (videos)

May 7, 2008 by Paul Spoerry 1 Comment

Yesterday at a press event hosted in London, HTC unveiled its latest Windows Mobile device, the diamond.

The Diamond is equipped with a beefy 528 MHz processor, 4GB storage inbuilt, HSDPA, FM Radio, 3.2MP camera. Unlike the other “Touch” GPS built in and working out of the box. Check out the overview of the device:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5fetcaQIaA

The Diamond runs on Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 6.1, Microsoft latest version of Windows Mobile. Unfortunately Microsoft hasn’t made many great improvements to the user interface of Windows Mobile, so what HTC has done is build in applications and customizations to work around the wonkiness of WM.These customizations are called TouchFlo 3D which adds the following sweetness to the device:

  • Rather than having to initiate it with a swipe, it replaces Windows Mobile’s standard Today screen
  • TouchFLO 3D also appears to be very well integrated in the OS. It’s less of an add-on and more of a new philosophy towards Windows Mobile. For example, the 5-way is also touch-sensitive so you can rotate your thumb around it to zoom in and out. It also demonstrates the power of Windows Mobile’s data structure — TouchFLO 3D has previews of emails, allows you to examine your pictures, and plays your music directly within the interface.
  • TouchFLO 3D tech is also built-into a custom build of Opera 9.5. But get this, no matter what your zoom level is, the text automatically wraps to the zoom. This is in contrast to the iPhone’s browser, which sometimes is unable to get the text to wrap properly.
  • TouchFLO 3D is, in fact, 3D in its animation effects. The Touch Diamond, unlike previous HTC devices, appears to be fully hardware accelerated and uses that power to full effect.

Weather
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hJB3Iwr2iU

Photos and Videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M4kcWu0Fzg

People
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAtOO1s8tn4

Music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-5BCSGQ38I

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Filed Under: Windows Mobile Tagged With: HTC, HTC Touch, iphone, user interface, Windows Mobile, youtube

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