Tuesday 5 October 2010

Samsung Galaxy Tab Non Contract Price Announced And Still The Android Fan Boy Is Silent

As the following two tweets show



The Samsung Galaxy Tab now has a contract free price.
I feel it appropriate to write about this after yesterdays blog post.
It carries on the theme about how little criticism these non Apple companies get.
Here we clearly have a tablet aimed at the iPad market. Which has been crippled already by not allowing VOIP on it in the US, and until today only going to be available on contract.
Then we get such an expensive non contract price, it makes the iPad look amazing value.
But where are the Android fan boys? Their silence is almost deafening.


-- Could be remote blogging or just too lazy to fire up laptop/Macbook/netbook. But still this has been posted from my iPhone 4.

Monday 4 October 2010

Are The Carriers And Handset Manufacturers Peeing All Over Googles Android Dreams? Or 6 Reasons Not To Use Android

You know what I am fed up with is those that dish it out but can’t take it back. One particular group like this in the tech world are the Android/Google Fan Boy. Oh the Google Fan Boy likes to dish it out to us Apple Fan Boys, they love to do nothing better than to point out Apple’s faults while ignoring the plank in their own eye.

For instance if Apple were doing half the things that the carriers and hand set manufacturers of Android phones are doing then they would be in an up roar, gathering as a mob with torches and pitch forks, and burning effigies of Steve Jobs outside of the Apple offices. At the front leading the baying mob would be the technorati like Mike Arrington declaring Jobs as Satan.

  • Want Skype on your Android phone? That has been sewn up in exclusive deals with one or two carriers.
  • Are you in the US and want VOIP on your Samsung Galaxy tablet? Forget it that has been disabled.
  • Want an wifi only Samsung Galaxy tablet, or not to be saddled with yet another 24 month 3G contract? Sorry no can do. The Samsung Galaxy tablet will be only available view mobile phone carriers with a contract.
  • How about bloat ware that you don’t want and will never use? Welcome back to the good old days of before Apple. The carriers and manufacturers love this, they get control back and can put on any crap they like and you can’t do anything about it.
  • Want your Android OS update when Google release it? Tough the carriers control when you get it once the handset manufacturer releases it to them. And this has meant that users are not getting the update for months after it has been released.
  • Want the latest Android OS update at all? Well carriers and manufacturers are even denying it to relatively new handsets, wanting users to upgrade to a new handset and contract to get the latest version of Android, despite the handset being more than good enough to run it.

Now yes the last three points can get round by installing a ‘vanilla’ version of Android on the phone, and the process of doing this means that you would void your warranty. But is this any different from  the jailbreaking that iPhone users do?

But you will notice that this is all down to the carriers and the handset manufacturers. I like Android and what it represents. Sadly I believe that the vision/dream that Google had, has been diluted and corrupted.

Yet if Apple had done any of the above there would be flames and hate flooding the interweb. But for whatever reason those same people seem ever so silent that it is happening with the Android platform. They are letting the carriers and handset manufacturers get away with murder.

Let’s start shining the flood light on these creeps and protecting the dream.