Word: androids
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...become our generation’s Rolling Stone, the indie-crit tastemaker inadvertently bypassed the righteous Lester Bangs/Hunter Thompson years and landed somewhere in the mire of that magazine’s bloated, self-parodying culture-factory era. And when did the hipsters get coffee tables? 4. The Google Android Phone—What do you want for Christmas, Johnny? An iPhone? Well let me tell you what Uncle Cliff’s going to do for you. No, don’t touch your uncle’s eggnog. I’m going to give you an iPhone...
...Talking Heads are the most human of mutant groups.” Give it a few tweaks, and the sentence is relevant to 2008: for these are robot times, and Kanye West is the most human of robot artists.It’s excusable to mistake West for an android. After all, his jaw’s half metal since that fateful car crash, and he got nanoimplants (or whatever) in the video for “Stronger.” And yeah, each track on his bold new effort, “808s and Heartbreaks,” gets...
...built-in Application Center on the Storm comes with just eight add-on apps for you to install, including Flickr, Facebook and AOL Instant Messenger. That's a sore disappointment compared with the thousands of iTunes apps you can click to right from your iPhone and the hundreds of Android Market apps available for the G1. There's no built-in music store on the Storm either, although a deal with Rhapsody is in the works, according to RIM. Worse, you can't talk on the phone while you surf the Web (a limitation of Verizon's CDMA network...
...Google's Android Market, which will eventually include thousands of add-on applications, doesn't officially open until the G1 goes on sale Oct. 22. But the dozen or so free apps I tested in the market's beta version worked great. Addictive games include a shape-matching brainteaser called MisMisMatch, a beeping Simon Says-type game called Android Says and classics like Pac-Man. The BarCode Scanner is a handy app that lets you use the built-in camera to scan a product's bar code at the store, then instantly compare prices online. But my personal favorite...
...short, the $179 G1 is the one smartphone that won't make you jealous of people with an iPhone. Google's commitment to a mostly free and open market for add-on applications - users can even tweak the open-source Android operating system - also gives gadget lovers something to cheer. If nothing else, G1 will win geeky hearts and minds everywhere with its reassuring end-credits-style device info: "No robots were harmed in the making of this product...