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A research report is throwing more fuel on the prerelease fire surrounding T-Mobile's G1 phone using Google's Android open source operating system. "Success for Android has Little to Do with User Acceptance," claims the ABI Research headline, and director Kevin Burden writes that Android can help sell a lot of smartphones only if carriers and manufacturers "recognize the value to their own business models of using standard platforms."
A friend of mine had the following to say and I wondering if you could comment:
What is their definition of "open standards" in this article? It seems
rather a buzz word than a real word. I say this because Symbian has
been released as Open Source by Nokia, so it isn't counted as a
standard, and the whole concentration is on Android?
The article says that the "Nokia-Symbian ecosystem" is closed source.
I don't get this comment...
The article says that HTC is the only OEM committed to Android, but
the members list of Android [
http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/oha_members.html ] lists HTC,
Samsung, LG & Motorola as the handset manufacturers.
I don't see how this article holds any merit. Unless I misunderstood it.
What is their definition of "open standards" in this article? It seems
rather a buzz word than a real word. I say this because Symbian has
been released as Open Source by Nokia, so it isn't counted as a
standard, and the whole concentration is on Android?
The article says that the "Nokia-Symbian ecosystem" is closed source.
I don't get this comment...
The article says that HTC is the only OEM committed to Android, but
the members list of Android [
http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/oha_members.html ] lists HTC,
Samsung, LG & Motorola as the handset manufacturers.
I don't see how this article holds any merit. Unless I misunderstood it.
While Google says it is open source, we feel it is only truly open to Google "family" companies. While our 4 submissions to the Google 10 million dollar contest are good enough to warrant our patenting them, we werent considered in the contest, Nor in the release of the SDK. As ONE example, several of the MIT team that received awards from Google are also Google employees. MIGHT DOSENT MAKE RIGHT
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The fully customizable, 2 sim card, unlocked phone with Google Android beats the G1 and Iphone in price, features, and beauty.
Larry Horowitz, Pres. LHH Holdings (zzzphone.com), a Nevada corporation
Like David beat Goliath, little zzzphone.com took on giant Google by taking orders last week for the first Google Android enabled phones(see press release to New York Times and others on front page of zzzphone.com website). ZZZphone asks any of its critics, Google, reviewers, or customers to prove any claims made on its website re. the zzzphone are not true.
The fully customizable, 2 sim card, unlocked phone with Google Android beats the G1 and Iphone in price, features, and beauty.
Larry Horowitz, Pres. LHH Holdings (zzzphone.com), a Nevada corporation
