T-Moble has blocked apps in the USA

Sorry I had to drop of the call. Had to take an urgent call here. Good discussion today.

by blocking HTTP access to a specific URL

so the app would not function

oops 218?

why 281 anyway?

I expect Apple will have a tablet computer in the next year

the big news will be when feature phones get Android

but

not likely

218 in Minnesota has those subsidized CO's.

Google won't lock stuff down but the carriers will - exactly Alex

on the other hand, my old T-Mobile Nokia 6600 worked all over the world. That had the best 'joystick' of any phone

could be anything. I will check into it when I get off the line

just like Iowa..

1900 and 850

be a Quad band phone...

not jim

I had trouble when my Bold tried to use T-Mobile; had to lock it into AT&T to get full roaming capability.

Apple has locked down Pinch/Grab etc. in so many patents no one will touch it for fear of Teams of Apple Lawyers

jim

Ohhh Nooooss!!!

Good Question Dan - also, why does anyone want to develop for Android when there are 8M iPhones are sold a quarter. Right now there are I think the 5 HTC phones that we saw on stage.. I think we are still 18 months from anything happening on Android

on the iPhone

look at what T-Mobile did in Germany with VOIP apps?

does t-mobile have veto power?

Apple Drives iPhone Developer To Switch To Android: http://www.podcastingnews.com/2008/09/23/apple-drives-iphone-developer-to-switch-to-android/ (because Apple killed his app)

Hudson, I hung up and called in again.

if a year away, then a year too late

Jim. whatever you did differently worked

more slices of augmented reality

good question ...

Oh Noooss!!!

gone again

I think it may be your firewall again?

I have had my end muted via Skype for the past five minutes.

in a month

OK, A KIM1 on a 110 Baud Telenet ...

ok

am going to hang up and call in again.

It seems to me as if Skype's mute function is still sending us some data. I've never heard that noise before.

can you open the lines back up?

I have a different headset on with the mic switch off as well as SkypeOut muted.

wierd

now that you're muted on the Calliflower end, no noise

BRING ON THE NOISE!

huge problem

I haven't seen anything on charging for apps

Jim, please mute

just raise hands when you want to participate.

<br/>Alec, as moderator can you not mute everybody?

I still think it's Jim phone, it sounds like this when he talks

Is there any near field capability? i.e. RFID

just horrible

no

how can you hear him? what was the question?

has it gone away?

It's dead, Jim.

Maybe it's a Timex Sinclar

no the C64 worked better than that

It is.

Jim - your sound is absolutely horrid!

he's running SIP on a C64 with a 1200 baud daulup

Ah yes, the Firewall blocking packets

wow his audio is bad!

totally

Jim Courtney

Jim - you're nearly unintelligible

here's the source, who ever is speaking now

I'm muted

The problem is the sound is intermittent

Trouble is it's HTC!

and the sidekick

nice noise on the line today

where is that coming from?

Got 3 recorded messages telling me all circuits were busy when calling in.

kbps

Most of T-Mobile is 33kbpa

Interesting video, Dan. Puts the android launch into the context of "IP dialtone"

go fgure

full bars but a lousy signal

Still watching the live press conference: http://announcement.t-mobileg1.com/

anything on the "App Market", do you need T-Mobile approval to sell apps thru this?

And the obvious: http://code.google.com/android/

Screenshots: http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/09/23/google-g1-screenshots-galore/

amazon launches music service with 6 million DRM-free songs on the Android phone: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1199842&highlight=

ZDNet says Gphone will power the social web: http://blogs.zdnet.com/social/?p=581

Tons of news out in Google News: http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=android&btnG=Search+News

TechMeme is naturally in heavy flow right now about Android: http://www.techmeme.com/080923/p26#a080923p26

FYI, I put up a little video preview this morning on this subject: http://seesmic.com/videos/6AYAO4qTQk