@yoshi:
What phone? All I see are screen captures from an open OS SDK that makes the iPhone look like the Berlin Wall.

Bluesk1d

Is it just me or does that phone remind anyone of a Zune? Is it a real phone, or just a mock up?

Anyway, I'm definitely psyched about the Android platform. Creativity and innovation won't be limited by Apple, plus it should actually drive competition in that market. Everyone wins!

iwantcokeinabottle

this oddly reminds me of windows 3.1

MrBlahBlah

These pictures are screen caps directly from the SDK and have nothing to do with a specific device.

Bluesk1d

Is this a joke?

Thank God this phone is going to T-Mobile because it looks horrible.

yoshi

Looking good, now givit.

ibelli

Ive been thinking about it and Ive come to the conclusion. Sorry ocean 2.0. but you took too long.

Here i come T-Mobile!

mr30gZune

Iphone killer right there

Priest

@bah: I think its the HTC Dream. I could be wrong tho. Maybe.

chizelord

What phones can use this right now? None on Verizon I'm sure...

2-7offsuit

as an iPhone user, i'm excited about Android because i hope it will keep Apple on their toes.

tucker

umm...I sure thought I had been keeping up, but maybe not: what phone is that in the picture? Just a Gizmock-up?

bah

@davidron:

"* We regret to inform developers that Android 1.0 will not support 3.5" floppy disks.
That's game killer :P "

HA HA HA HA!

yoshi

@Bluesk1d:

Android in general does not impress me at all. T-Mobile can have it at this point.

I am curious to see how Apple handles it's relationship with Eric Schmidt when Android is released. I've read where Schmidt has to leave the board room when they discuss the iPhone.

yoshi

Notable lines from the change log:

* Due to significant API changes in the upstream open-source project and due to the timeline of getting certain Bluetooth profile implementations certified, a comprehensive Bluetooth API will not be possible or present in Android 1.0.

What does this mean for third party apps that would use bluetooth, such as a playstation 3 controller, or bluetooth storage device? No go?

* We regret to inform developers that Android 1.0 will not support 3.5" floppy disks.
That's game killer :P

davidron

Haha....whats Ballmer going to do now? He has to deal with Google at this front also.

Ken_Darrow

Anybody check if those icon files have a "(c) BeOS 1998" string in them?

bobdobbs

Man I sooooo regret waiting on line for 6 hours (they told me it would be around three, shift change...) at the Apple store for the sorta cool, but really annoying iPhone 3G. If the HTC Diamond, or a decent Android phone had been out at the time, then I would have been getting my grope on. It's sad how "open" Microsoft looks compared to Apple.

The screenshots look nice. Hopefully a lot of developers get on board to produce quality applications. We'll see.

misterwho

huge clock reminds me of Vista

OGHowie

What if Google were do develop their own ad based music store. It could be the first serious challenger to iTunes. If I can get this phone for free in exchange for advertising I'd happily take one.

oneclick

@iwantcokeinabottle: same here. i thought that it looks like a zune too.

the_amazing_doug

For those like "Omg it's ulgy" well know the fact that it's COMPLETELY open and you can make it look like what ever you want it to look like. My contract with T-mo ends on sept - 27th I am really really not sure if I'm going to switch or not, I was really keen on switching prior to this announcement, now I'm going to wait and see.

Technogen

@yoshi: Um. If you didn't get the memo. He's not part of the Apple's Board anymore. They had to ask him to leave the room too many times.

vgart

These guys should really make the interface a bit cleaner...
And i really dont like the font they have chosen/made. they should take a good look at the interface from SE! I rly love it and it has some nifty stuff in it.

Still pretty exited about this though! I have faith in google for they have brought me Gmail!

Townie

What a bad choice in Icon selection. Why are we back to 2003 Cartoon Icons?

vgart

As a former iPhone user and current Tmobile customer out of contract, I am very excited about this OS, as well as the HTC Dream, the first phone to run Android.

In terms of the "look" (fonts, icons, etc.), correct me if I'm wrong, but being a truly open OS, doesn't that mean that all kinds of skins will be made for this thing? Not that I have a problem with it in its current iteration, but for the naysayers...

iSmoteThee

@Townie:
SE really does make some great interfaces.

NightBlade

@Technogen: You've got the better phone. And MS has always been more open than Apple. It would appear that Apple is trying t change that, however.

The Magnificen7

@iSmoteThee: I was thinking the same thing (re: skins) -- but that makes me worry; how many problems are they going to ignore away with "Hey, it's Open: *you* can fix it!"

I'm still excited... I can't wait until somebody comes out with an iPhone skin!!!

[just...kidding? I can't even tell anymore.]

bah

yagh!! Thro up in my mouth a little bit seeing that jeesus ugly phone. i had high hopes, but it looks like terrible ass shit. when will they learn that the screen needs to fillout the entire device with only like 1-3 millimeters of edge on the sides. iPhone (eventho i own one) looks like terrible ass shit too, with its unbelievable ugly above and below areas. plus the 3g has ugly side areas too (how come they made it worse?)

darklybishop

@darklybishop: What? you still haven't realised that android will run on many different phones? your statement has nothing to do with Android which is an OS.

krisve

Calculator looks awesome. 80085 = BOOBS

whocares571

That is a mock up device, not an actual phone. It's about time T-Mobile has something to say for themselves. As a customer, I actually find T-Mobile to be very good price and service wise overall.

dnyyanks62

Just tried the emulator. In applications, you can hold down your 'finger' on a text field, a copy/paste menu pops up. cool.

badbob001