{"id":916,"date":"2008-09-23T17:20:08","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T16:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/916-what-i-want-from-a-mobile-phone-running-googles-android.html"},"modified":"2008-09-23T17:20:08","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T16:20:08","slug":"what-i-want-from-a-mobile-phone-running-googles-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/916-what-i-want-from-a-mobile-phone-running-googles-android.html","title":{"rendered":"What I want from a mobile phone running Google\u2019s Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Reasonable price hardware without having to purchase a contract (it can\u2019t qualify as an open platform without this).<\/li>\n<li>Excellent web browser (should be a given, coming from Google).<\/li>\n<li>Client for Exchange \u2013 or could just be secure IMAP, since Exchange supports this quite well.<\/li>\n<li>Google maps \u2013 this is one thing I <a href=\"http:\/\/googlemobile.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/google-on-android.html\">know is on there<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to stream music over wifi. I have lots of music on a server at home, and would like to be able to play it easily on the mobile device.<\/li>\n<li>A keyboard \u2013 one of the things that puts me off Apple\u2019s iPhone. I know this is on the T-Mobile G1, which is the HTC Dream.<\/li>\n<li>Respect for privacy. For example, the geolocation stuff is great, but the idea of broadcasting my presence to Google or others spooks me a bit too. I want full control.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to code and install my own apps. Should also be a given, as this is meant to be an open platform.<\/li>\n<li>Instant messaging with choice of service \u2013 not just Google Talk.<\/li>\n<li>Voice over IP when I am on wifi. Carriers dislike this of course.<\/li>\n<li>Up-to-date Flash runtime. Silverlight would be nice too; wonder if Microsoft\/Mono is smart enough to pursue that with any vigour?<\/li>\n<li>View common document formats \u2013 the usual scenario is when these arrive as email attachments. I guess .doc and .pdf matter most. I occasionally get sent a .docx; I have never been sent an .odt.<\/li>\n<li>A bonus would be the ability to play divx movies.<\/li>\n<li>Excellent battery life. This matters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I may have missed a few things. I\u2019ll check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/announcement.t-mobileg1.com\/\">press conference<\/a> later and see what the score is.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:a330af4f-7b0f-4cd8-b701-934f7ad58e9c\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/google\" rel=\"tag\">google<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/android\" rel=\"tag\">android<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/flash\" rel=\"tag\">flash<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/silverlight\" rel=\"tag\">silverlight<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/exchange\" rel=\"tag\">exchange<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/mobile\" rel=\"tag\">mobile<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reasonable price hardware without having to purchase a contract (it can\u2019t qualify as an open platform without this). Excellent web browser (should be a given, coming from Google). Client for Exchange \u2013 or could just be secure IMAP, since Exchange supports this quite well. Google maps \u2013 this is one thing I know is on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/916-what-i-want-from-a-mobile-phone-running-googles-android.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What I want from a mobile phone running Google\u2019s Android<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-mobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}