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Report: T-Mobile G2 Drops Keyboard To Better Battle iPhone
Cult of Mac —
... The G2, built by Taiwan’s HTC for U.S. carrier T-Mobile, will appear this Spring without a physical keyboard, according to gadget blog Gizmodo. Removing the keyboard in favor of a touch-screen version will better align the Android phone with handsets such as Apple’s iPhone. ...
Is This A $100 Google Phone? (GOOG)
Silicon Alley Insider —
... Gizmodo says this is supposedly the T-Mobile G2 -- the follow-up to Google's (GOOG) G1, the first phone running its Android mobile operating system. ...
Mobile Tech Minutes: Android Isn’t About the Hardware
jkOnTheRun —
... over possible spy shots of the Android G2 handset. That’s all well and good, but I have a slightly different take to offer. That’s what today’s “Mobile Tech Minutes” test episode is all about. I say “test episode” because I wasn’t planning to publish this; you can tell by my casual wardrobe and poor camera angle, but you get the idea of the concept-in-progress. ...
Thoughts on the G1 keyboard
The Apple Core —
... of the keys practically negating the benefit of having a keyboard at all. The keys need to be a little taller with a little more travel to be able to touch type with. Right now it’s all hunt and peck for me. My typing accuracy is horrible on the G1 resulting in hilarious SMS typos and truncated Tweets. Granted I’m still not fully used to the device (and have an iPhone bias) – If I’m going to pay the price of extra thickness I want a really nice hardware keyboard. A keyboard-less HTC G2 is rumored to arrive in mid-May Also, there’s currently no iPhone-like virtual keyboard on ...
Our Android T-Mobile G2 Wishlist [Android]
Gizmodo —
HTC's successor to the G1 is on the way, but with few details to go on, we've compiled a wish list of what could make the sequel to a good phone significantly better. We've included lots of hardware-only feature we want to see, but also on our list are improvements to Android that could be made independently of any phone. But with Android, phone makers can customize and modify the distribution that shows up inside their phones, as long as its done responsibly and in a way that allows future stock updates to still apply. We'd love to see HTC put some ...
