Apple before the tablet is announced. Google's smartphone partners are going to be sweating bullets, hoping Google doesn't just leave them with the leftovers. It makes perfect sense. Google isn't making any money off the partners, just publicity for spreading the Google Android name. Google can make some easy money by selling the flagship Android smartphone. Google will attempt to prove you can eat your cake and have it, too. The Nexus One looks to be a very powerful device and certainly more attractive than the Droid.

Anyone with an announcement prior to the iTablet is trying to upstage Apple before their announcement.

In fact, I'm sure the entire CES show was set up just to try to upstage any and all Apple announcements later in the month. It's just so obvious.

any comment on the article testudo? no? none at all? you don't have a take on google's phone? of course you don't. you only have a take on others comments. without others posts you would be speechless. not an original thought to be found.

a few more days before the new year. now let's commit ourselves to our resolutions.
you will have an original thought in '10! i'm sure of it.

High hopes that Google's intent is directed to towards a reality check to the U.S. wireless-phone oligarchy.

With these specs, I'm sure Google's partners may inevitably end up alone... albeit years down the line. Although, secretly, I was hoping Google would have designed their device with the Zii's internals.


@ Nat

Didn't you just respond to Testudo's comment only?

There are all kinds of slick and shiny gadgets out there with all kinds of features. So what?

The huge advantage Apple has is the power of OSX and its SDK and its infrastructure of iTunes, AppStore, MobileMe, etc. It's also going to have the next new iPhone in a few months, and very likely yet another gadget to round out the its system INTEGRATION--not fragmentation.

These various new offerings from others will most likely be seen, not with dread, but with interest, as they can serve as "free" indicators--based on their respective successes or failures--of what people want or don't want.

yes but he's my charge. it's my job to try to guide him to maturity. i'm sure you understand.

any comment on the article testudo? no? none at all? you don't have a take on google's phone? of course you don't. you only have a take on others comments. without others posts you would be speechless. not an original thought to be found.

And since when do you have a take, other than whine about me? In fact, you complain so much about me, I'm concerned you might be trying to hide your true feelings. Like a g** republican screaming about the evils of homosexuality.

And there is no reason to have a 'take' on the phone, since there is no phone to have a take on. The article isn't about the phone, it's about a press event that may or may not be a phone announcement.