DISQUS

Not sure if its on the RC33 release but should be available soon for G1 users:


"Latitude is currently available in 27 countries, spanning a variety of devices, including most BlackBerry, Windows Mobile 5.0 and Nokia Symbian S60 devices.

Google promised support for iGoogle users, Android-powered devices such as the T-Mobile G1 and Apple's iPhone in the near future."

I detail some interesting features not mentioned before with Cupcake when you manually install it to your G1 at http://www.googleandblog.com/google-android-cup...

,Michael Martin
Google And Blog

I like having the keyboard and dont mind the looks of the G1 - buttons do seem weird on this "G2" phone..

Assumptions are it will have a longer battery life and full utilization of the Cupcake features.

As I posted in http://www.googleandblog.com/dream-g2-android-p... this should be brought out publicly at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Spain next month.

,Michael Martin
http://www.googleandblog.com/

Just like PCs relative openness and lower price beat out the Mac in the 80s/90s.

,Michael Martin
http://www.googleandblog.com/

How was he able to get it to run from the SD card?

,Michael Martin
http://www.googleandblog.com/

This is just a Proof of Concept.

So as to prove you CAN port it to netbooks, not that it would be particually useful now, but the possibility is there down the road for something more robust.

,Michael Martin
http://www.googleandblog.com/

True that is excessively thicker, but in the end its cost effective for T-Mobile to provide these batteries so people use their services more upon which they would profit in the backend.

,Michael Martin
http://www.googleandblog.com/

I thought HTC recently revised their Q4 projection to sell 1,000,000 G1s.

I believe they have already blew away selling 400,000 G1s a while ago.

,Michael Martin
http://www.googleandblog.com/

The point is to pull in the developers since its open source and depends on them to evolve the platform as well the device to become a truly consumer (as well business) phone that trumps the walled garden of the iPhone.

,Michael Martin
http://www.googleandblog.com/

The point is to pull in the developers since its open source and depends on them to evolve the platform as well the device to become a truly consumer (as well business) phone that trumps the walled garden of the iPhone.

,Michael Martin
http://www.googleandblog.com/

The G1 has excellent memory management in my opinion but needs to have MUCH more internal actual memory since you can not run applications off the SD card.

Battery life is also the biggest grip I have.

,Michael Martin
http://www.googleandblog.com/

The later generations of Android phones will be more user friendly as the kinks get worked out from the first generation G1.

,Michael Martin
http://www.googleandblog.com/

Nothing shocking, but obvious the future Gs will make massive improvements especially hardwarewise after the G1 gets QA'd by the masses.

,Michael Martin
http://www.googleandblog.com/

@ Thomas

Your partner Steve emailed me about this yesterday about the 1GB cap as T-Mobile quickly rectified it.

My sense as here in San Diego as we just got 3G last week is that the system will get overloaded so it was a smart preemptive move by T-Mobile to set a cap, but the wording revisement was a better PR move to accomplish the same thing in an ambigious way.

,Michael Martin
http://www.googleandblog.com/

It is the Mac PC Wars Redux

,Michael Martin
http://www.googleandblog.com/

This information correlates to what I have from both people inside Google and HTC.

The new SDK should be out before the end of August and announced in parallel with the ADC round 2 winners.

HTC told me this week "we don’t anticipate having units for quite some time" as GoogleAndBlog is on the short list to receive the Dream phone early on for reviews.

,Michael Martin
http://www.googleandblog.com/

This could be the same chubby kid that provided the Lost video leak at Comic Con - hence the heavy breathing.

I am suspicious, but it could be a veiled response from HTC to offset the delay rumors, but the wow factor is lacking due to its Sidekick similarities.

,Michael Martin
http://www.googleandblog.com/

Those are the same reports I am hearing as T-Mobile expands its 3G service in October they will also release the first gPhone which is speculated to be the HTC Dream.

I posted that this may be offered for free as a promotion to sign up for the 3G service at http://www.googleandblog.com/free-htc-dream-goo...

,Michael Martin
http://www.googleandblog.com/

Great interview with Nicolas as I had an interview with him as well, I also linked to this page from http://www.googleandblog.com/plusminus-android-... as I really liked the quote of "Android is for the masses, iPhone for the rich“

,Michael Martin
http://www.googleandblog.com/

Ideally Android will merge with Symbian & LiMo to create a unified open source front like the PC market in the 80s/90s to closed source Apples iPhone (and Mac).

I agree that the iPhone dominance will be short lived and Android via its edge in China will dominate in 2009 as I posted at http://www.googleandblog.com/google-phones-will...