I’m not sure if I’m one of the few or one of the many people excited about Google releasing a mobile operating system. A few of my friends had never heard about it until a link to T-Mobile’s G1 was posted on Google’s Homepage. I also remember seeing a commercial on TV sometime last week. Still don’t hear people talking about it though. The way i see it, there’s no hype. What is not being done right? I mean, I hate to compare it to Apple’s iPhone but some comparison has to be made some where.
Apple came out with a cool phone with a sweet, slick, sexy and an edibly-eye-candified interface (spell checkers wont like that too much), but you get what i mean. I own a touch and the interface and fluid-like animations is something you can really drool over (deny it all you want). Android’s interface is almost there but not quite there yet. I don’t own one myself (yet) so I’m referencing the pictures I’ve seen and videos on YouTube.
Don’t get me wrong – Google’s done a good job (it’s Google, duh! they always do a good job). As a matter of fact, I really want to get my hands on a phone running Android. Google has provided programmers world wide with a new environment to mess around with – whether you’re married to Windows, Linux or Mac you can still develop applications for the operating system and also be able to manipulate the hardware on which the OS runs – free of charge, and it’s all open source (even better). Can’t say quite the same for the iPhone/touch.
Sprint better hop on the Android bandwagon soon because I want one! And I hope some really talented designers out there create some nice themes and icons for it soon. That would be nice 