Alright. I’m a blogger. And I travel a lot. These aren’t great mixes, partially because when you travel, you can’t usually type or blog. I use my iPhone to blog when I’m AFK – this is a trend to do with smartphones. They’re increasingly useful as temporary computers, for when you’re in another country and can’t use your laptop, or on a train, walking down the street (imagine how much of a douche you’d look walking down a street trying to type on a laptop) and various other applications.
There’s no denying that the iPhone, let alone smartphones, are incredibly powerful and useful phones. And even so, as Apple say, most smartphone companies are just playing catch-up. Blackberry aren’t – but Blackberry are business phones. Apple’s iPhone has been a real game-changer – it was the most noticeable touchscreen phone and arguably one of the best smartphones – and it brought smartphones to a younger generation. No one in my school had a smartphone. Some geeks had blackberries, but that was in the lesser 2% of the school. Then Apple came along and maybe around a twelfth of the school have one. It’s strange, isn’t it?
What’s really eating me at the moment is the chaotic fuss over the Nexus One – Google’s Smartphone – and why everyone is hyping over it. To put it short, the Google Phone is just a phone with the Google logo. It has nothing special and it is not different from any other smartphone. There’s no exclusive features and it is not game-changing. I dread to see the day where Google is the next Apple – anything with a Google logo is apparently amazing?
Yeah, I’d admit this is a bit of an opinionated post, but at the moment the Nexus One is nothing. It’s not game changing, and it’s using technologies I saw a year ago. I want something new and refreshing with a new feature, not just the same phones on the market with a Google logo. I know Google are probably trying to do something interesting with this phone, but it’s not magical and amazing – yet. I don’t understand why people are up in arms about this revolutionary phone when it’s frankly nothing more than an iPhone catchup in an HTC Passion shell. Yeah, Android OS is something cool. But a phone running the same Android as the HTC phones and the Droid?
Guys, the Google Phone aint anything amazing. Stop acting like it’s the next super phone.
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