Android and iPhone Cage Match Next Week?

[Jon Westfall]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/09/16/t_mobile_sets_stage_for_android_iphone_showdown_next_week.html' target='_blank'>http://www.appleinsider.com/article..._next_week.html</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"An invitation sent out on Tuesday by T-Mobile asks the media to gather next week to see the first phone built on the Android mobile platform, but will also pit Apple and Google against each other -- if reluctantly."</em></p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/spt/auto/1221668093.usr7.jpg" /></p><p>You mean they're actually going to release this eternally leaked device sometime? Whoa! So press conference next week, and rumors of late October release. Perhaps Android will finally make it out of rumor and into consumer's hands.</p>

[RogueSpear]

Whoa! So press conference next week, and rumors of late October release. Perhaps Android will finally make it out of rumor and into consumer's hands.</p>

I'm not quite sure what the tone of this post is all about. The first Android device is not coming out early and it's not coming out late. It's coming out right in the time frame that was suggested like six months back. And let's be realistic here, Google has managed to do more in the last year than Microsoft has in the last 10 if we're talking about mobile operating systems. I'm sure I'll be using my second gen Android device around the time Microsoft announces that ...surprise!... another WM7 is delayed.

I understand that this is site dedicated to the PPC / WM platform, but just because there really hasn't been anything newsworthy on the WM front for a couple of years now doesn't mean a hard sell against everything else out there is necessary. Likewise, it doesn't mean shilling for an all but abandoned mobile OS is worth the time or effort either.

[bkerrins]

I've been very happy with Google as a company and their products. I think this will be similar to their other endeavers. It will have bugs, but at least Google seems to try to fix bugs which is more than I can say for MS. (Anyone happy with ActiveSync?) If I wasn't a lifetime AT&T customer, I'd probably switch. Just not worth it to change the whole family plan over.