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[Casey]

I like it. I do think the Legend and Droid have better designs though.

Anyway what's really gonna shake things up is apparently how they're gonna market it.

Supposedly you'll buy the phone from Google's site for $99, no contract, unlocked. Pop in a T-Mobile SIM (for example), and get a monthly unlimited data plan for $29, but you're not locked in to that for any amount of time either. That's it. You don't need a voice plan at all because..... all the calls are unlimited, through Google Voice.

That is going to be a very affordable option for many many people.

 

[S O F I]

For only $99? That is very good news. I was thinking since it's unlocked, they would want you to pay like $400+.

 

[vg4030]

$99!? Thats it?

Me Rikey! Me Rikey wery much!

 

[Casey]

What I've heard is that it will be available in retail stores unlocked for $199, but if you buy it on Google's site (which supposedly will be located at the convenient URL of simply google.com/phone) it's $199 with a $100 dollar rebate, and you can choose to have that $100 in cash, credit for Android Market, or credit for your Google Account in general so you could use it at any online store that uses Google Checkout.

 

[masta247]

wow which one is going to be 99$?

 

[vg4030]

Thats awesome... those prices almost sound too good to be true!

 

[Casey]

wow which one is going to be 99$?

The Google Phone/HTC Passion/NEXUS ONE. The one I just posted videos of.

 

[Casey]

It remains to be seen whether those prices are true, but it came from a good source. We're supposedly looking at a Jan 5th release date.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

what if we buy these phones and trade them in at CEX making money?

will they be doing something similar in the UK?

 

[Casey]

Google Voice isn't available in the UK, so doubt it. It'll probably cost more to get the phone here. I have a US address though so I'll be able to get one

 

[THEV1LL4N]

lucky you. maybe i could get my aunt to order one. doubt they'd do it though, they never got me the pistons jersey i asked for when i offered to pay them.

 

[Casey]

New Cyanogen ROM is out (4.2.9.1), I'm installing it now.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=567610

It has backported Widgets from Eclair/2.0.....so it's a lot closer to a full 2.0 release.

Changelog for last few releases:

---- v4.2.9.1
* Headset audio routing bug fixed

---- v4.2.9
* Random music bug is fixed
* Kernel should be much more stable and less prone to crashes/reboots
* Eclair widget backports
* Eclair graphics layer backport
* Eclair activity manager backport
* Fixed APNs so AGPS always works properly
* Contacts enhancements from Wysie
* Quicktabs for Cyrillic and Hebrew from PsychoI3oy
* Other stuff here and there..

---- v4.2.8.1
* Fix issue with UTF-16 SMS
* Darker launcher tray
* Dialer update with preferences (from ChainsDD)

---- v4.2.8
* Updated kernel with many fixes
* Updated Compcache module
* Updated APN list
* Automatic zipalign of applications at install time
* Eclair dialer backport from ChainsDD
* Various bugfixes from CodeAurora
* Updated phone app from Cytown
* Enabled precise GC for Dalvik
* Some ported visual elements from Eclair
* New launcher tray (from Moonspoon)
* Fix for Android bug 2719

 

[THEV1LL4N]

updated this at work today. was glad to see the bugfix for the random song. hated that. my ringtone used to change and whenever i received cm update notifications random notification music used to play. stuff i wouldnt necessarily play loud as a ringtone.

 

[Casey]

Did you see the new music and calendar widgets from 2.0? Very cool.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

^^ i knew i was forgetting something. i dont really use widgets, just the task manager and cpu ones. will check them out now.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

the music one is really good, and the calendat one looks good too - nice to see a quick summary of upcoming events. don't really like the navigation of the google calendar (phone version), would prefer the back key to take me to the original menu but it always exits. that's not a major problem anyway.

nice widgets, think i'll be leaving that one on the 5th screen. need more screens now lol. cant remember the name of the application, but you can get one that does the same thing on your windows desktop.

 

[Casey]

[YOUTUBE]NmgKDvWdi6o[/YOUTUBE]

 

[ARon]

^lmao, i bet a good chunk of the people in the audience had an iphone too

 

[Flipmo]

I love SNL lol

 

[keco52]

Didn't even know we had this thread. I have the htc hero.