Verizon & Google ???

[Pliablemoose]

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=25460

Verizon Wireless and Google said Tuesday that they will partner to co-develop a bevy of Android-based devices.

I don't know what this collaboration will bring. And from the start, it makes no sense, Google has more money than god, so developing something like an iTunes competitor isn't an issue for them, nor honestly any other kind of R&D.

Verizon is notorious for retailing locked down and respeced phones that benefit Verizon (like disabling or demanding the removal of WiFi from different phones, so you're stuck using their data plan)

Verizon doesn't make phones, it just sells them.

I'm curious to see what the conference call is about.

 

[erwos]

I would expect that Samsung and HTC will be in the conference as well.

Me? I'm hoping that the Instinct Q doesn't suck.

 

[ivan2]

YES!

 

[pm]

Verizon is notorious for retailing locked down and respeced phones that benefit Verizon (like disabling or demanding the removal of WiFi from different phones, so you're stuck using their data plan)

It will be interesting to see what happens with Verizon next year when they start the migration to LTE (essentially 4G GSM) - and join the rest of the world of SIMs and cross-carrier compatible devices.


As far as the original announcement, I read it as "Android is coming to Verizon, and Verizon is working to change Android to make it look more like they want it to".

 

[boomhower]

Originally posted by: erwos

Me? I'm hoping that the Instinct Q doesn't suck.

It will. The whole instinct line is a joke.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

It might be awhile before we actually see any hardware.

 

[corkyg]

It makes a lot of sense as it directly attacks the Apple-ATT lashup. Apple may have better hardware at present, but Verizon's 3G network blows ATT completely away. The name of the game is Internet access, and Verizon wins hands down.

 

[Pliablemoose]

Seems like Apple has a cdma iphone it'll sell in Canada, so an iPhone on Verizon isn't so far fetched

 

[pm]

Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
Seems like Apple has a cdma iphone it'll sell in Canada, so an iPhone on Verizon isn't so far fetched

Bell and Telus are both normally CDMA carriers, but from what I've read they are launching the iPhone in Canada on their brand-new HSPA (3G GSM) network.

http://www.canada.com/technolo...ne/2069088/story.html#

from the article:

Bell cleared the way to offer the vaunted iPhone when it said on Monday that it had completed a long-awaited overhaul of its wireless network that will enable the carrier to support Apple's popular handset and smash the exclusivity chief rival Rogers Communications Inc. has held over the device.

For years, both Bell Canada and Telus Corp., the nation?s second- and third-largest cellphone companies have trailed Rogers largely because of network superiority. Since its acquisition of Microcell in 2004, Rogers has used next-generation gear called high-speed packet access (HSPA), while the other two relied on CDMA, or code-division multiple access.

A primary advantage of HSPA is the favour it has gained with handset makers as it has overtaken CDMA technology with cellphone carriers around the globe. Among them is Cupertino, Calif.'s Apple Inc., which designed its smash-hit iPhone expressly for HSPA networks.

 

[Pliablemoose]

Ahhh, that explains it

It'll be interesting to see what Verizon allows.