Android Demo at Google Developer Day London 2008

Supposedly the first demo of a real Android device in the UK...

Cut halfway through to allow my camera to zoom :-)

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Science & Technology

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• google
• android
• gdd08
• london

[dragoshu]

oh and the memory is not even expandable!!! BLAH

[dragoshu]

hahaaaa!!! who is the idiot to pay for a SH phone that has no MMS no Bluetooth and no copy and paste plus , no message forwarding,not customizable + its stuck in apples world! the price of the new 5 megapixel ultra cool HTC touch pro!!! he should better buy an N95 with that money cose the iphone is such a piece of crap , right ?

[asmielia]

Well considering most people with iphones have data plans, the data transfer argument is moot. The compression feature of opera is great, but I think most phones spend more time processing the web page for display purposes than actually downloading it. SMS and Safari are usable within 3 seconds. That's pretty fast. Enjoy your WinMo HTC Touch Pro, I'm sure you'll be cursing it within no time. It's all about the interface on the iPhone, no one can compete with it without copying it.

[Untouchab1e]

Or I could just sell it, making my new HTC Touch Pro come in without my wallet taking a hit :)

[Untouchab1e]

Iphone Safari serves up great looking websites, but it doesnt reduce the size of the website before it loads onto the phone, as Opera Mini does. This means much larger portions of data gets transferred, meaning longer loading times, and much higher data transfer costs. Multitasking comes at a price as you say, but you forget about the option to close any running app to free up availble RAM. The iPhone 3G often takes quite a while to load up SMS's and safari and other apps too.

[dragoshu]

hey! if u think ur iphone is a shitty phone just give it for free to someone who really wants one. me for example! its a good way to make ur point.

[asmielia]

I wouldn't be using WinMo and Symbian as examples of working multitasking. Sure it works ok with a few good apps running, but they can both bog down big time. In fact, I'd be using those as examples as to why the iPhone's approach is better. We'll see how Android does, I'm anxious to see. Not sure what your point is about the data, the iPhone safari browser is still ahead of everything else out there, over a year after release, over wifi or 3g.

[Untouchab1e]

Windows Mobile, Symbian, and other Mobile OS's manage to have multitasking, so what makes you believe it would just screw up the iPhone? Your comment just backs up the statement on how the iPhone is for the simple user who wants a fun, simple phone that does what it does good, nothing more. Without a contract with free data connectivity the iPhone is useless anyways, as its in no way optimized for mobile use (resulting in slow and expensive mobile browsing, etc). Email sucks big time too!

[asmielia]

No, on the contrary. Clumsy would be allowing anyone to create a random background thread, complete with potential memory leaks, and completely lock up the phone or slow it to a standstill. Apple already has memory leak issues in its own apps which cause performance degredation. We don't need to introduce more variability into the equation right now. Apple will get to the background notification thread in due time. For the moment, I feel they have the best approach.

[Untouchab1e]

iPhone can even hardly be called a smartphone. What the next version may or may not have is rather irrelevant. When instead of implementing true multi tasking, they develop this clumsy system where you rely on a persistant internet connection to wake up certain apps that recieve new notifcations. The iPhone is great at what it does, but there is way to much it doesnt do at all! It just isnt a phone for the advanced user.