Gone baby gone Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Early 2007 Android demo phone. 'Nuff said... Not really... I was using one of these in 2003: And this Android phone is available today: Android was developed (like Symbian) for multiple different hardware configurations - some with a keyboard, and some without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gone baby gone Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Incidentally, this was actually the first production Android phone, the t-mobile G1(note the keyboard): There are still plenty of models with a slide out keyboard available today - they tend to be more popular in the US than the UK though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrashedOutAndBurned Posted September 21, 2012 Author Share Posted September 21, 2012 Incidentally, this was actually the first production Android phone, the t-mobile G1(note the keyboard): There are still plenty of models with a slide out keyboard available today - they tend to be more popular in the US than the UK though. Which was already trying to be iPhone-esque. I remember lots of people with them. All they could say was how it was like an IPhone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Incidentally, this was actually the first production Android phone, the t-mobile G1(note the keyboard): There are still plenty of models with a slide out keyboard available today - they tend to be more popular in the US than the UK though. Ah, how i fondly remember that phone, (made by HTC). i was on Windows mobile 6.1, and just about ot go 6.5, and i remember proclaiming that Googles new mobile OS android, was going to be crap and go no where. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Masked Tulip Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 I think it's safe to say the iPhone 4 was "peak Apple". They've ripped out Google Maps (a key part of the original iPhone and one mentioned in the original keynote by Jobs) for purely political reasons and are now delivering a sub-standard product. The iPhone 5 has little else in the way of innovation. Competitors devices have been as thin, with bigger screens for 12 months+ and LTE is not functional in the UK yet. Another commentator suggested iOS6 should have been named iOS5.5 due to it's incremental nature and I have to agree. The marketing schedule and politics have finally eclipsed the product. I think you are right sir. The new HTC Windows Phones are going to be for sale for £225.00 unlocked in the UK. Buy one of those and go with giff gaff or pay a fortune for a crApple? http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/htc-8s-windows-8-phone-preorder-15th-november-224-98-unlocked-mobiles-com-1316528 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19 year mortgage 8itch Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 I think it's safe to say the iPhone 4 was "peak Apple". Please let it be iPad 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gone baby gone Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Which was already trying to be iPhone-esque. I remember lots of people with them. All they could say was how it was like an IPhone. Probably because it was their first smartphone. If you'd have been using smartphones for 6 years before the iPhone was released, they would have known different The entire homescreen / widget concept was very reminiscent of Symbian Series 60 phones. But on Android it worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
libspero Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Isn't this just reversion to form? Good hardware, crap software.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gone baby gone Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Isn't this just reversion to form? Good hardware, crap software.. That's a good point. Although their hardware was pretty crap as well for quite a while! Statue of Liberty missing in action... It's the iOS6pocalypse! http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/20/3363914/wrong-turn-apple-ios-6-maps-phone-5-buggy-complaints I've heard that the iCloud has been iKaput a few times in the last few weeks as well. You can say what you like about Google, but they know a thing or two about maps and infrastructure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Developing a global map system with independent database and photography is not easy. Making the decision not to launch until it's ready is easy however. A spectacular hubristic farce timed perfectly to drown out the fanfare of the iPhone5 launch. This will be studied for decades by marketing students, on a par with the Ford Edsel and Coca-Cola's Dasani. I guess these melted bridges are due to them using the data for river water levels, etc. Maybe Apple should launch thei own mapping satellites. Or aerial drones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaspers Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 They already had the model - WebKit. Apple took KHTML and turned it into a top open source web browser engine. Sure, now Chrome and a hundred other browsers can have the same engine that Apple initially put big moola into but then Apple can benefit from others' innovations too without being beholden to a rival. http://www.openstreetmap.org dumps all over Apple Maps for accuracy and points of interest. If they'd jumped on this project they could have moved away from Google and got kudos for boosting a good open source effort a la WebKit. As I said - this isn't bad. It's off-the-charts bad. +1 Stunned by how bad iO6 maps is. Truly shocking. Goes against the Apple ethos of producing something that works, before anything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 A well known town in Austria, near Tarsdorf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Gone baby gone Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Well, that explains the bumpy landing I had in August. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Masked Tulip Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Well, that explains the bumpy landing I had in August. There's load more on the Telegraph's main page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 There's load more on the Telegraph's main page. All ripped off from the tumblr pages, without any credit as far as I can see. Edit to add: I'm being a real hypocrite here, because that's where i got the last image that I posted from too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gone baby gone Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 The hits just keep on coming... "Swiss railway accuses Apple of ripping off clock design on iOS 6" http://www.itproportal.com/2012/09/21/swiss-railway-accuses-apple-of-ripping-off-clock-design-on-ios-6/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gone baby gone Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 All ripped off from the tumblr pages, without any credit as far as I can see. Edit to add: I'm being a real hypocrite here, because that's where i got the last image that I posted from too My personal favourite... A japanese plaza in São Paulo, Brazil. Some kind of wormhole perhaps (or iWormholeTM). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecrashingisles Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 The hits just keep on coming... "Swiss railway accuses Apple of ripping off clock design on iOS 6" That is blatant. I hope they get enough in license fees to be able to cut Swiss rail fares. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHERWICK Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 My personal favourite... A japanese plaza in São Paulo, Brazil. Some kind of wormhole perhaps (or iWormholeTM). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 The hits just keep on coming... "Swiss railway accuses Apple of ripping off clock design on iOS 6" http://www.itproportal.com/2012/09/21/swiss-railway-accuses-apple-of-ripping-off-clock-design-on-ios-6/ What nonsense. The times are different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gone baby gone Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 What nonsense. The times are different. Apple have a patent on 00:40:43 and 12:40:43 though so railways everywhere better watch out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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