Google Android Phone.. First look

[Clarkii]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7630888.stm

Looks pretty good, i would get one..

seems to have enough gadgets and features to keep me entertained. i wonder if u can get google earth on it, also the like part sliding of the phone is pretty good..
I myself already have an iPod Touch 2G
then internet zooming thing is quite niffty to, yet i still like my "pinch" zoom on my iPod.

Any one gonna get it, my sister wants one, see how much that is.. lol

Thoughts

Clarkii

[goughy000]

its a great device but their making apples mistake!!

Why isn't it being released on Pay as you go at launch!

Google's android idea was to create an "open" platform but now their only releasing it to people who can afford to pay £40 a month

[Clarkii]

true, if apple or google opened it on a pay as you go and contract, i would definatly go and buy one, i got for the iPhone personall, some people can get them on like orange or w.e but im not sure, i hope with the 3rd incarnation of iPhone theyll release it from the claws of O2 lol.

[goughy000]

saw an advert in the newspaper today for pay as you go iphone 3g, it was like £345 though but they do still throw in some free stuff for a year.

[MoNsTeReNeRgY22]

that looks like apretty nifty phone!

[xBPM07x]

I never had a cell phone, and probably never will Just too god damn poor... looks good though.

[Clarkii]

youve never had a mobile phone.... lol dont you have "pay-as-you-go" over there?

[C:/Funeral]

I'd really want one! How much will they cost? I can't afford more than £130 realy :S

[Clarkii]

ive had a look at one

im not to keen on it, its has a horrorble cheap feeling plastic case, with a disgustuing opening mechanism

it opens like this (see 2)

[goughy000]

its still all contract at the moment, Android have failed again by making the first one go to an independant dealer in the UK.

Android is supposed to be "Open" but wth if you dont get signal for that one network, not so open to everyone anymore is it?

I hate it when mobiles go exclusive to one network, it removes the pricing competition and makes it so expensive

EDIT:
Agree with that picture clarkii, i tried one in the tmobile shop and it sure does feel cheap. it was only a dummy though but not sure if the genuine one is any better