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Google Nexus One phone (TMobile, VZW, Voda, AT&T-sans-3G)

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Nexus One Users Report Connection, Support Issues - Reviews by PC Magazine

Over the past few days, the sheen on Google's Nexus One smartphone has begun to fade. The phone has reportedly been giving its buyers connectivity and support trouble, and Google has been slow to respond to complaints and issues on its support forums.

The most notable complaint concerns 3G connectivity issues, where the phone switches back and forth between EDGE and 3G service even when a strong 3G signal is available. Since this issue not really been an issues on other HTC Android devices like the T-Mobile G1 and myTouch 3G, it's not hard to imagine the issue being fixed with an over-the-air update unless it's a serious hardware issue.

Many users on Google's forums say the issue is prevalent and Gizmodo even spotlighted one user who provided data regarding a G1 that had no problems getting 3G while the Nexus One floundered.
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I was having a conversation with someone recently, a big time linux fan who wasn't too pleased to see how far Android had come in such a short period of time.

With Android infiltrating appliances, netbooks and there's even talk of full blown pc's running the OS, could this do more damage to the open source community than help? While Android may be open source, it's not exactly free as a lot of companies are learning, if you are going to use the OS in your device, you are going to lose a lot of key functionality unless you are willing to pay royalties for some of the applications, googles apps for example, are not on a lot of the rooted versions of the OS because those apps are property of google.

Linux has such a small marketshare, mostly because the desktop isn't exactly user friendly and there's something to be said about the lack of real help files, with the touch screen capabilities and support for all sorts of network components (gps, 3g, wireless, edge, etc...) could this do serious damage to the small ammount of the marketshare that linux has?
 
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OCBucksFan;1643209; said:
I was having a conversation with someone recently, a big time linux fan who wasn't too pleased to see how far Android had come in such a short period of time.

With Android infiltrating appliances, netbooks and there's even talk of full blown pc's running the OS, could this do more damage to the open source community than help? While Android may be open source, it's not exactly free as a lot of companies are learning, if you are going to use the OS in your device, you are going to lose a lot of key functionality unless you are willing to pay royalties for some of the applications, googles apps for example, are not on a lot of the rooted versions of the OS because those apps are property of google.

Linux has such a small marketshare, mostly because the desktop isn't exactly user friendly and there's something to be said about the lack of real help files, with the touch screen capabilities and support for all sorts of network components (gps, 3g, wireless, edge, etc...) could this do serious damage to the small ammount of the marketshare that linux has?
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Google - the Microsoft of tomorrow.

I'd be shorting MS stock right now, to hedge, if I owned any.
 
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Steve19;1643448; said:
I got an HTC TouchPro2 (link) and it is functioning well as a phone, WiFi, and internet access handheld. Works well for my diary function and etc too.
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Windows Mobile? You'll have to let us know what you think of it, with iphone, blackberry and android, I have not seen Windows mobile since I had a Palm that ran it a few years back. OS sucked then, hopefully they've made tons of improvements.
 
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OCBucksFan;1622393; said:
I still welcome our new google overlords, with open arms.
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Google Hacked the Chinese Hackers Right Back - China - Gizmodo
One of the cooler stories out the whole Google-China debacle is that Google hacked the hackers. It "began a secret counteroffensive," breaking into a computer in Taiwan, gathering evidence the attacks originated from mainland China, possibly orchestrated by the government.

Google's delta force found evidence that the hackers had attacked 33 other companies, like Adobe, and that the onslaught actually came from China, not Taiwan. More to the point, "much of the evidence, including the sophistication of the attacks, strongly suggested an operation run by Chinese government agencies, or at least approved by them." Unfortunately, Google can't prove the Chinese government's involvement 100 percent, which is why the Obama administration is pussy-footing around the issue.
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