Now that the HTC has dipped its toe in the water with the G1, it won’t be long before other manufacturers start to reveal their own Android handsets.
Motorola has reportedly been showing its first Android effort to mobile carriers in the USA. The unnamed handset is described as “a higher spec G1, at a lower price”. Game on!
Intriguingly, as well as the expected slide-out QWERTY keyboard and touchscreen (multi touch.. please?) the new phone apparently will place a lot of emphasis on social networking. It’s not clear what this means, really - any phone can do Facebook/bebo integration, after all. I’m sure its not just a bit of marketing speak for ‘we are aiming for the youth market’. That would be ridiculous.
I think we should stop holding our collective breath for multi touch. Its a shame. It would be amazing to see where competition in this touch screen field would take us in the not so distant future. Instead now apple has the monopoly. Imagine how cool it is to pinch and shrink screens. And thats just one application. All the others can just basically swip, since they’re limited to just one finger. My question is does anyone have any intelligent guesses on when multi touch will be freed or at least licensed so we can get some better phones. I wont buy the iphone, no qwerty, not for me.