Has someone experience with android linux on mobile phones? What you think about it?
> Has someone experience with android linux on mobile phones? What you
> think about it?
no, not yet…but i want to…
by the way, i heard that MS is gonna bring out a new phone to directly
compete with the iPhone, they are gonna call theirs the iCrash…
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somebody_else
So funny! rotfl!
I love the Android architecture and concepts. I have the emulator loaded on my machine and have done some small developments. Looks great so far. I still don’t have a real phone. Will get it next time I come to NY.
I will buy one too…but i m not a great fan of htc and samsung…i will wait a wile to see what comes next out…
I’ve got android running on my HTC Touch right now. The XV 9900 from Verizon, to be precise. It runs pretty well. Very responsive and almost everything works. The only things that don’t work for me currently are the internet and bluetooth. But I don’t use either of them with my phone YET. Also, verizon cripples the GPS so you can’t use any other app but the VZW Navigator. But I heard there’s a patch for that, so who knows.
Ian
I think i will buy a htc magic…has someone experience with it??
After long search i now, what phone i will buy! It a Samsung i7500 with Android Linux 1.5! have a look here: http://scr3.golem.de/screenshots/0904/Sasmsung_i7500/Samsung_I7500_screen.jpg
Oh its so beautiful…isn t it?
Yes, that looks beautiful. It is going to be available in June. I will definitely grab one
Samsung I7500 with OLED touchscreen powered by Android, dreams
I just ordered and bought it…but i have to wait for two-tree weeks…i m so happy about it! Never again windows mobile…the pc windows is bad, but windows mobile…thats THE REAL APOCALYPSE!
What is the cost?
May be, I can pick up one next time I come to Zurich.
I am not sure how soon it will be released in India/Middle East.
There are supposed to be a lot more Android phones arriving this year.
Palm’s firstWebOS phone, the Palm Pre, also arrives on June 6th. WebOS is also Linux-based. The Palm Pre is supposed to do a lot of things much better than the iPhone and WebOS is also supposed to be much more developer-friendly, compared to either the iPhone or Android. It will be interesting to see whether Palm and Sprint can market it effectively.
The price is actually 699CHF…thats much better than the iphone (nearly 1000CHF)
This price is ok for this candy-hardware (…GPS, 8GB-HD…)
Hmmm… This price looks OK to me.
Hmm, I’m planning to buy something with wifi,
camera, gps and if possible with big screen.
I considered Android too, but as far as know,
it has no way to synchronize with anything
except Google own web-apps. Or am I wrong?
Are there some other options available?
I mean not maybe someday in the future,
I mean options available today or just next week.
I use KDE PIM heavily - Calendar, Kaddressbook.
So synchronization with it is a necessary function.
So it looks like Symbian is the most suitable in this case:
!) Synchronization (SyncML) of contacts, to-do’s and events
- Support for Garmin maps (for GPS navigation)
- Plethora of available applications
Android OS is Linux. That’s great. It has good potential. That’s good.
But it just doesn’t have all, that Symbian has now,
including KDE PIM support (opensync via SyncML).
I hope that situation will change in the near future.
But I won’t wait forever maybe just till July-August.
However, I doubt anything will change significantly.
Sync tools will be available in Android once the phones are out. (May be already available. I haven’t checked throughly). It is easy to develop or port because it is Linux and Java. I personally feel that Android is going to rule the mobile world. I could never accept Symbian because it is still slow and phones that use Symbian are not as open as Android phones. This is one of the reasons why I switched away from Nokia after developing so many applications on it.
If Sync tools on Android are not going to be available by the end of this year, I will put some efforts myself towards that. Unfortunately, I don’t have time before that.
I got hopeful when my wife’s phone died. I’d give her mine and look at getting something, preferably an Android phone.
But, there aren’t many Android phones and her phone came back to life. Maybe it’s a blessing in disguise, if more phones are coming out later this year.
Has anybody heard whether the Mono team is getting anything onto the Android? I know they did something like that with the OpenMoto but haven’t heard about the Android.
PS. that Samsung I7500 looks pretty sweet!
Hehe, i had exactly the same idea, but when i saw this samsung phone…i changed my plans! I have no endurance to wait so long…
Very interesting and speculative article on Ars about Nokia’s future plans:
Alleged Nokia Linux smartphone plans exposed by leak.
Nokia may be developing a smart phone that uses the Linux-based Maemo rather than Symbian.
I’m inclined to think that Maemo would make a pretty good smartphone platform. Its strong Linux roots and close alignment with upstream desktop Linux technologies would make it a more appealing option than Android for many third-party developers and hardware makers who don’t want to get locked into Android’s insular ecosystem. The ability to take the vast number of existing desktop GTK+ and Qt applications and port them trivially to a smartphone is also an appealing factor. The advantage that Maemo offers over Symbian is easier application development and a more modern platform stack.
Thats a good idea…Simbian OS is good but the problem is that there is no free automatic version update like in android and it is difficult to bring soufware out which works on every simbian phone…i think that is only negativ about simbian! And by the way…simbian is not linux based!