T-Mobile G1 Announced. Android On the Loose. Now What?
It’s official. The Android-powered G1 will be hitting T-Mobile stores across the US on October 22, the UK in November, and elsewhere in Europe in early 2009. Being a Windows Mobile site, we’ll spare you the fine details. Head over to the T-Mobile G1 site, and check out the videos after the break, if you’re eager to learn more.
On to other matters: Android is one capable platform, and undoubtedly, one that users of Google services will love. Combined with Apple’s continuing efforts to enhance the capabilities of the iPhone and Mac OS X, and the growth of heavyweights such as BlackBerry and Symbian, where does this leave Windows Mobile? Over the past year, we’ve perused multiple comments from readers suggesting that the platform is becoming increasingly stagnant and that efforts by HTC, Samsung, and other manufacturers to improve the usability of the platform are merely a band-aid solution.
As a result, you may have already jumped ship or are considering it. If you’re in that group, just what would Microsoft have to do to Windows Mobile to win you back? If you’re not in that group, what is it about Windows Mobile that’s keeping you glued to the platform? The mobile war is on. And it’s you, the consumer, who dictates the winners and the losers. Tell us what makes, or would make, Windows Mobile a winner for you.
WM 7 Delayed?
Partners who had expected to have a final release of WM7 in their hands by early next year have been told now that the new Windows Mobile platform won’t be ready until the second half of next year.
Definitely bad news because Windows Mobile urgently need its refresh and if Windows Mobile 7 is postponed to the second half of 2009, it’s most likely that we will not see devices before end of 2009. Nevertheless, every bad news also have a positive aspect and in this case it means you don’t have to hold out for a new device and you can go out and get your new i900 Omnia, Touch Diamond, Touch Pro or Touch HD today because based on this news it will be the latest for the next 12 months at least.
XPERIA X1 gets examined in-depth on video
Sony Ericsson itself showed off its XPERIA X1 handset in a webcast the other day, but if you just can’t get enough of it (and, judging from the number of comments the phone has gotten, plenty of you can’t), you may want to hit up the::unwired website, which has an even more extensive hands-on video of a pre-production unit. Among other things, it shows that switching from portrait to landscape mode takes far less time than before, and the all-important panels seem to be a good deal more responsive as well — the build being used is from early September, so it should be a reasonable indication of what the final software will be like. Hit up the link below to check out all sixteen minutes of it for yourself.
HTC Touch HD Quick Sizemodo: Pretty Close To The iPhone
French Gadget Site GeekInc, got an early HTC Touch HD unit to play with, and took a bunch of pics to show for it, including a couple of size comparisons against the iPhone. As you can see, they’re pretty much the same size, save for some backend tapering. Their own impressions more or less coincide with our own hands-on, in that TouchFlo was super smooth, the screen was huge, and it appears the Touch HD camera handles low light pretty well. Check out a few more images below, and for a bunch more, check out [GeekInc].
Android-powered HTC Dream to sell for $199 on T-Mobile
With under a week to go before the HTC Dream is officially unveiled in the Big Apple, the Wall Street Journal has given us something juicy to gnaw on for the time being: a price. Unsurprisingly positioned to compete directly with the iPhone 3G, the Android-powered HTC Dream / G1 will go for a cool $199 (with 2-year contract, obviously) when it launches on T-Mobile, though there’s no word yet on what it’ll run sans subsidization. So, how do you like dem Apples?
