Word: android
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...then the G1 is the brains. Sure, the Google phone lacks much of the iPhone's external finesse: it's thicker and has a slew of buttons and a slightly smaller screen. But spend more than five minutes with T-Mobile's G1, which runs on Google's new Android operating system, and you'll uncover its inner brilliance...
...Saturday, an independent site called Boy Genius Report leaked a 17-page PowerPoint presentation that purported to show the touchscreen Storm, along with an App Center that mimics Apple's App Store and Google's Android Market. The site followed up on Monday with a Storm user guide that TIME was unable to access - probably because too many other folks were attempting to do the same thing - but which was promptly reposted on CrackBerry. RIM would not confirm that the leaked photos were of the Storm, but by Monday afternoon the images had been published and identified...
...Tuesday morning, the most conspicuous absence at the New York City launch of the "Google phone" - the first mobile handset to run Google's new Android operating system - was the Google folks themselves. But about a half an hour into the event, and well into the question-and-answer session hosted by the phone's wireless carrier, T-Mobile, Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page suddenly rolled onstage wearing in-line skates, blaming Manhattan traffic for both their delayed arrival and their choice of transportation. Cameramen snapped to, reporters pounded furiously on their notebooks and the crowd buzzed...
...software, and it's getting ugly among the rank and file. Apple, which has accepted then summarily rejected some apps after they've gone up, is doing a poor job of handling developer relations and is getting a reputation for being capricious. Some angry developers are already defecting to Android - the OS that powers T-Mobile's G1 and will power all successive iterations of the Google phone...
...bound to be a very long line of smartphones that will live in a wide-open ecosystem. Sure, they're crufty and ugly - as are Windows and the machines that run it - but I guarantee that they will get cheaper and better looking as more devicemakers launch their Android phones. And unlike Apple, which listens only to Jobs, these manufacturers will be listening to the market. It was not a coincidence that the very first Android phone gave users a cut-and-paste function - something that iPhone users have wanted since Day One. The tragedy, and the farce...