ZOMG Google Phone CONFIRMED (PHOTO): See The Details

techcrunch.com:

Last night, we started seeing some Tweets from Google employees and others about a new Android-powered Google phone that was apparently handed out at an 'all hands' meeting. Now Google is confirming that this indeed "dogfood" testing a new Android device with employees around the world.

Read the whole story: techcrunch.com

Comments

[wagadog]

04:07 PM on 12/13/2009

Love those nails on the hand model in the pic by the way -- did that come with the press release? Or was that released on usenet, in alt.binaries.pictures.amateur.pornstar?

[wagadog]

11:21 AM on 12/13/2009

Oh for heavens sakes it won't be running Android per se.

Android and the OS for the G-phone are being developed by two separate teams, on opposite coasts, first of all. Second of all, Android is open sourced, and basically a VM that sits on top of the third party's phone OS, so it isn't really an operating system at all.

I am so tired of technology reporting from people who do not understand technology and are consequently not only unwilling but un*able* to dig for more information. How can you ask key questions or think critically about conflicting responses from different sources when you don't even know what the words mean?

Track down the people affected by the last Google layoff, who moved to the Austin office only to have it be closed down within a few months, or who interviewed at Google, only to be insulted by an offer to be a "diversity hire." You'll learn a lot more than parroting their press releases.

Oh, and if technology is a foreign country to you, at least TRY to learn the language.

[StephenJK]

11:47 AM on 12/13/2009

Geek RAGE!!! I love it.

[ripopgomee]

12:09 PM on 12/13/2009

The Nexus One runs Android, period.

Android comprises an entire OS stack, from microcode to libraries and even to base applications. Some of it is Linux, some of it is Java, but all of it falls under the aegis of the Android distribution. It does NOT run 'on top of the third party's phone OS', although that's theoretically possible (with fairly poor performance, most likely). Cite an example if you disagree.

[wagadog]

03:17 PM on 12/13/2009

Sorry, what they're calling the "Android Kernel" is a just another Linux port.

GOOG has to abide by the GPL in marketing its port of the Linux Operating System -- which is why they are required to provide the source. Which is how we know they didn't develop it themselves.

The only thing new GOOG provide is a GUI SDK that runs in a VM (with bytecode so incompatible with every JVM on the planet that they had to start calling it "Dalvik" -- if your product doesn't adhere to accepted standards for A, just call it B? how very clever) and that is what allows app developers regularly run droid apps on other platforms.

Again, as with the kernel, ports and performance mods are not new development. I can go out and *buy* a bunch of old Honda Civics, throw in a turbocharger and call them "Wagadog Specials" and call them "open source" of them because you can exchange parts with other Honda Civics in the junkyard but that doesn't mean I developed any car technology.

Unfortunately,GOOG have followed in Microsoft's footsteps with the "Embrace and Extend" approach to standards -- instead of following accepted standards, their so-NOT-called-JVM is so screwed up, developers spend half their time fighting that instead of solving the problem they initially set out to.

[wagadog]

03:57 PM on 12/13/2009

"some of it is linux and some of it is java"?

Linux is an OS, Java is a language, and Android is an app SDK.

The so-not-called JVM Android apps run in is a hacked JVM with non-standard bytecode, which they're calling "Dalvik" -- presumably how they get around paying Oracle/Sun.

Getting that VM running on any platform is how Android *application* developers do their work, and how you get droid apps running on other platforms. There's even an eclipse plug-in for it, for crying out loud.

Oh, I see where you're confused, ripopgome: GOOG is calling the whole toolchain "Android" now. As if they developed Linux, as if they developed the compilers (they did not), as if they developed the JVM from scratch (they did not), as if they're writing the apps (they're not). Xrist what a bunch of poseurs.

[goodog]

05:03 AM on 12/13/2009

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10414406-94.html

Rumored:
Google: 4.3" 800x480 pixel display & 5 MP camera w/720x480 wvga video (HTC) Unlocked

Known:
Droid: 3.7" 854x480 pixel display & 5 MP camera w/720x480 wvga video (Motorola) Verizon
Satio: 3.5" 640x360 pixel display & 12.1 MP camera w/640×480 vga video (Sony Ericsson)
iPhone: 3.5" 480x320 pixel display & 3 MP camera w/640×480 vga video (Apple) AT&T
Touch: 3.2" 480x320 pixel display & 3.2 MP camera w/640×480 vga video (HTC) T-Mobile