We’ve previously seen the HTC Dream run the Android interface on YouTube, however the video was of very poor quality and blurry as well. But now we’ve finally received a much better glimce of Android in action and it now looks more definite than ever that T-Mobile will be the carrier network involved. First of all, here’s the video just for those who haven’t seen it off YouTube…
The pics have come from a Chinese forum, so it helps if you can read Chinese, these are the pics that have been posted and Android looks to be pretty much complete and ready in all its glory as Engadget have said… It’s unfortunate the pics don’t show what it looks like while on the internet but I can’t wait til it’s available in the UK, Android (and the phone) looks to be quite promising!
In addition to our recent photos and specs of the speculated Palm Treo Pro, here we now have some further small details and also an additional picture…
I’m unsure how many readers from here in the UK will know about this but certainly this will have been all over the news in the US. What’s happening is that Yahoo and Google are talking into a deal in which Google will ‘help’ bring up Yahoo’s revenue which as you will imagine make it even more difficult for Microsoft to further approach Yahoo to settle another buyout deal. Google which at the moment is the giant for earning money most effectively from online ads will ‘assist’ Yahoo by delivering Yahoo search engine results onto their own search result pages (to my understanding) resulting in Yahoo earning 800 million more yearly, but the way many sees this is that Google will just be knocking out one of its main search engine competitor. In my opinion, this feels more like a search engine referral program, but the partnership will remain undecided by the justice department until September this year and Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch thinks the deal is unlikely to happen, check out the short report below…
[via TechCrunch]
Some developers have managed to get Google Android Beta running on the Windows Mobile based HTC TyTN II smartphone (also known to many as the AT&T Tilt) and I have to say I’m quite looking forward to having something like it on my phone in the future!
Here’s a quick video…
The topic of this post has been one that I personally have been looking forward to find out for sometime. Over at WMExperts, they’ve published a well written detailed comparison of these two phones. The verdict?
Well, in general the HTC Touch does seem to be more of a phone that suits businessmen, people who really need a handheld for work purposes, for organisation. While both phones deliver about the same functionality, such as Wifi, bluetooth, 2 megapixel camera and of course a screen with unique finger touch-flow capability.
On the other hand the iPhone gains its merits particularly in the field of entertainment, of course the iPhone wouldn’t be half as popular as it is now if iPod hadn’t existed and having iPod integrated within the iPhone is certainly the most attractive feature to many… But I’m also attracted to the fact that it doesn’t use Windows Mobile (proves I’m kind of bias myself!) and uses Safari instead of IE to surf the net! In addition to that the iPhone has just got an absolutely @#$%^&* amazing clear screen, the iPhone is also slightly thinner than the Touch by the way.
More on what we think after the break…
