New Android Version for Nexus One may change my mind about "Jumping Ship"

[Rangerscott]

I just had a great idea. Jave any of yall used one of those remote pc apps to annoy someone at home? I was thinking like leaving the speakers turned way up and playing some scary sound file or movies. Also turning shit on and off to freak someone out.

[EpyonXero]

Originally Posted by Rangerscott

I just had a great idea. Jave any of yall used one of those remote pc apps to annoy someone at home? I was thinking like leaving the speakers turned way up and playing some scary sound file or movies. Also turning shit on and off to freak someone out.

Never used it as a prank but if you set up VNC on a computer you could do anything with it.

[Homeslice]

Damn.......Too bad, as it can actually fit in a pocket, unlike the X, Evo, or Incredible. Everything is going supersize now.


Google quietly kills its once-hyped Nexus One phone
By Doug Gross, CNN
| Filed under: Mobile

(CNN) -- With the eyes of the technology world squarely on Apple's iPhone 4, Google quietly announced it will stop selling the Nexus One, its first and possibly only foray into the smartphone world.

In a two-paragraph post on its official blog, Google's Nexus One team said the next shipment of the phones will be the last.

"Once we sell these devices, the Nexus One will no longer be available online from Google," according to the post.

The announcement was made Friday, the same day that Apple CEO Steve Jobs held a news conference to announce the company's solution for reception problems with the popular iPhone 4.

Running on Google's Android operating system, the Nexus One was released in January to mostly positive reviews from the tech blogosphere. Early users compared it favorably to the iPhone and liked the ability to buy the phone, albeit for more money, without a data plan from a particular service provider.

But sales were anemic, with the phone selling only 135,000 units in roughly the same time it took the iPhone and the Droid -- Motorola's phone that runs the Android system -- to sell 1 million.

Many blamed Google's experimental try at selling the Nexus One only in its online store. The company abandoned that approach in May, offering the phone in brick-and-mortar stores for the first time.

With the announcement, Google seems satisfied to write off the Nexus One as a tool to experiment with Android's features.

Recently, the search engine giant has been pushing Android users to phones made by other manufacturers, such as the HTC Droid Incredible. May's announcement mentioned both the Incredible, for Verizon customers, and the HTC Evo 4G from Sprint as phones that have benefited from advances made on the Nexus One.

The new Droid X from Motorola has most of the Android buzz now. It was released last week to positive reviews and is selling out online and in many retail stores.

Google's blog post said that it will continue to make the Nexus One available to Android developers so they have something to use while writing apps for the mobile platform.

[Kaneman]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

Damn.......Too bad, as it can actually fit in a pocket, unlike the X, Evo, or Incredible. Everything is going supersize now.

Where are you getting this from? There are like 3 largish phones on the market, and you keep referencing the Giant Phone Armageddon of 2010.

HTC hasn't forgotten about grown men with tiny hands, they made the Aria just for guys like you.

[Dave]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

Damn.......Too bad, as it can actually fit in a pocket, unlike the X, Evo, or Incredible. Everything is going supersize now.


Google quietly kills its once-hyped Nexus One phone
By Doug Gross, CNN
| Filed under: Mobile

(CNN) -- With the eyes of the technology world squarely on Apple's iPhone 4, Google quietly announced it will stop selling the Nexus One, its first and possibly only foray into the smartphone world.

In a two-paragraph post on its official blog, Google's Nexus One team said the next shipment of the phones will be the last.

"Once we sell these devices, the Nexus One will no longer be available online from Google," according to the post.

The announcement was made Friday, the same day that Apple CEO Steve Jobs held a news conference to announce the company's solution for reception problems with the popular iPhone 4.

Running on Google's Android operating system, the Nexus One was released in January to mostly positive reviews from the tech blogosphere. Early users compared it favorably to the iPhone and liked the ability to buy the phone, albeit for more money, without a data plan from a particular service provider.

But sales were anemic, with the phone selling only 135,000 units in roughly the same time it took the iPhone and the Droid -- Motorola's phone that runs the Android system -- to sell 1 million.

Many blamed Google's experimental try at selling the Nexus One only in its online store. The company abandoned that approach in May, offering the phone in brick-and-mortar stores for the first time.

With the announcement, Google seems satisfied to write off the Nexus One as a tool to experiment with Android's features.

Recently, the search engine giant has been pushing Android users to phones made by other manufacturers, such as the HTC Droid Incredible. May's announcement mentioned both the Incredible, for Verizon customers, and the HTC Evo 4G from Sprint as phones that have benefited from advances made on the Nexus One.

The new Droid X from Motorola has most of the Android buzz now. It was released last week to positive reviews and is selling out online and in many retail stores.

Google's blog post said that it will continue to make the Nexus One available to Android developers so they have something to use while writing apps for the mobile platform.

While loose change and condoms may be appropriate for those little subpockets on your jeans, cell phones are not.

[Homeslice]

There is nothing wrong with putting a phone in your pants pocket, as long as they are not tight pants, but who wears those except emo's?

And also, jacket pockets are nice to use as well.

Originally Posted by Kaneman

HTC hasn't forgotten about grown men with tiny hands, they made the Aria just for guys like you.

And does it have a comparable feature set? Since it isn't the flagship, I doubt it.

[Dave]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

There is nothing wrong with putting a phone in your pants pocket, as long as they are not tight pants, but who wears those except emo's?

And also, jacket pockets are nice to use as well.



And does it have a comparable feature set? Since it isn't the flagship, I doubt it.

You misread

[Amber Lamps]

Originally Posted by Dave

You misread

I didn't and my phone does fit in the change pocket of my jeans...

[Kaneman]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

And does it have a comparable feature set? Since it isn't the flagship, I doubt it.

My Incredible does, and its a normal sized phone.

[Mr Lefty]

My droid fits in my pants fine... even my Dress Blues which are uh... "snug"