Nice demo of Android from Google

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Android is developing well. Exciting times for the mobile market. Check out the browser, 3D and streetview. Quite good IMHO.

Nice yes. Notice how the zoom doesnt use the apple style pinch movement because they've patented it. Does that tell you patents are evil

Whoa, 3D looks really fast/smooth...

I wonder if the touchscreen has "finger sensitivity" like apple's so that only a touch of the finger will work and not if you have it in your pocket or touch with a pointer, etc.

The touch screen does look smooth. Notice there is little lagging even in 3D and how fast Quake closes and streetview starts. That's cool. The interface is bloody fast at least on this device. All my Nokia's including N95 are laggy.

I am really looking forward to an android phone. Hopefully the hardware design will be done as well and not be ugly bricks.

Nokia is the one who should be worried about all these developments. They have been sitting on their ass for too long and giving us crippled phones in some way or another. Apple and Android do threaten their relatively easy leadership so far for the simple reason they have not innovated much and not fast enough.

Their feature centric view, drip drip marketing strategy misses the user experience part of it which means even if you have 3g, GPS and stuff you really can't use it to their potential because they haven't thought about the user experience part of it, the screens are way too small, memory is too little etc.

I for one love the iPhone SMS feature, that is the sort of small but thoughtful innovation that makes a huge difference to the user interfacing with the product and these are the sort of things Apple is so good at. Hopefully Google will raise the bar and deliver an outstanding experience.

At alpha stage it's pretty good i must say. the Quake demo was running at a full 30 fps . Street view 3d however cool that sounds and looks might not be practical unless we have a solid 3g infrastructure in place.

@raul: i wouldn't go as far as to compare the iphone and android the latter being just an OS.

Hey Blade_Runner, to clarify that was in context of competition to Nokia heating up. Not as a comparison to each other since there are no Android phones yet.

Pretty neat! The guy claims its running on a 300Mhz processor, I think it'll release with atleast a 500Mhz chip (Since the iPhone is somewhere around 600).

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Enjoy!

I think android is a operating system rather than phone ......

duh, he didnt say its a phone

i just saw the videos, cool stuff, especially the trippy street view with compass motion

too bad they were touching with single finger, no multitouch, will miss the "pinch to zoom" action present on iphone and windows7.

plus no on-screen keyboard demoed, they just opened gmail/google without typing in anything...

so no multitouch and no keyboard demoed... isn't it a sign that patents are evil???

probably apple and ms have filed/paid for the patents to enable in their devices...and google can't include it because android wants to be open...

Google can very well include multitouch, by coming up with their own stuff (they do so in search all the time, so why not in other fields?), or by licensing from others. It is done all the time, and does not affect openness (the GPL onlu requires that you pass on that right). What is more worrisome in this case is that different OSes will have different gestures, which will be painful