Are you getting the G1? (Google Phone?)

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by Teddi, Sep 26, 2008.

  1. Teddi

    Teddi Well-Known Member Bear

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    I think I may do. In the UK you can get it for free if you take a contract with T-mobile out for 16 months, £40 a month (just slightly over $80 for you Us lot)

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    I like it and I may get it if i can convince my parents to maybe pay for the contract as I'm not 18 :3

    I also think it's better due to it being open source, so you can dev anything for it. The funnest part is that for £40, you get unlimited everything. So it's like, wow.
     
  2. Kaiden

    Kaiden Administrator Community Manager

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    You'd spend £160 a month on a contract? :/

    I'm just on pay as you go lol, my phone;

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  3. Teddi

    Teddi Well-Known Member Bear

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    I meant month* ><
     
  4. George

    George Active Member

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    *Cough* Poor Man's iPhone *Cough*
     
  5. Kaiden

    Kaiden Administrator Community Manager

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    Ah, that sounds better lol.
     
  6. George

    George Active Member

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    Anyway, its not "Google's phone".

    It is made by T-Mobile, its just that it runs on Googles Mobile OS.
     
  7. Widz

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    its superior to the iPhone in every aspect, except two things: low inbuilt memory, and no pinch touch screen crap.
     
  8. George

    George Active Member

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    Everything on the Google Phone has already been done on the iPhone.
     
  9. Widz

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    a proper keyboard? hate the iP00'ds touchscreen keyboard. Afaik, iPhone doesnt have a barcode scanner? xD
     
  10. Stanley Kowalski

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    no thanks, this is good enough
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  11. George

    George Active Member

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    Why the fuck would you need a barcode scanner on a phone!?!?!?
     
  12. cpf

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    Comparing in-store prices with ones online, duh.

    Also, since those portable handheld barcode scanners that have the microcomputer in them for stock operations cost so much, you could use your phone instead :p

    Hmm, not out in Canada afaik.
     
  13. [BB]Kyle

    [BB]Kyle New Member

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    No thanks this is good for me
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    With full screen keyboard
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  14. George

    George Active Member

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    iPhone still pwns
     
  15. River Rat

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    So I see where those donations are going teddi.. O_O
     
  16. [BB]Kyle

    [BB]Kyle New Member

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    It does, the only reason I didn't get one is because I know of only one person in my town that has it and he wishes he never got it, because he never gets a signal any were.
     
  17. Teddi

    Teddi Well-Known Member Bear

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    No, i stated in a post I said I would try and get my parents to pay for it.
    Donations are still going towards my welfare of surviving at college.
     
  18. Biff Johnston

    Biff Johnston <MARQUEE><h1 style="color:Green">[BB] Grand Master

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    Tox shut up, you don't have a phone
     
  19. Whitefang

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    Barcodes consists of white and black bars, resembling numbers. The laser scanner at the register reads them and knows the price because it's in the computer. How the hell would a phone know that? Hack into the computer? All it would return is the value of the barcode in numbers.
     
  20. Advantage

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    Now ive just gotta find out how to get £40 a month :/