Overall performance improvement: You should experience significant raw speed improvement, smoother scrolling, and no freezing.
Multiple accounts management: If you have both a Gmail and Google Apps email account, you can easily switch between them quickly. You will no longer have to use two different mobile apps to access personal and work emails.
Multiple mobile email drafts: You can save multiple email drafts in your mobile phone, so that you can pick and choose what you would like to send later.
Powerful shortcut keys: If you have a QWERTY phone, you can use shortcut keys. Hit ‘z’ to undo, ‘k’ to go to a newer conversation, and ‘j’ to go to an older conversation. See Menu/Help in the app for more shortcuts.
Basic offline support: Can’t get a signal? Not a problem. You can compose and read your most recent emails even when there is no signal. Also, any outgoing messages will be saved in the outbox on your phone and sent automatically when you’re back in coverage.
Am I really to believe that the Gmail Mobile 2.0 App will not freeze on my standard issue clamshell (hypothetical clamshell that is)?
Sources inside NBC Universal are claiming they lost money on the Beijing Olympics
In the third quarter earnings conference call with parent company General Electric, executives said NBC Universal generated more than $1 billion in revenue from the Olympics, but still lost an undisclosed amount on the event
We wrote last month that NBC’s web site which was streaming events couldn’t even pull higher traffic numbers than Yahoo’s Olympics page that was providing the same news coverage and no video.
Hyped to be the most open platforms for a mobile phone we have seen yet, there certainly seems to be many ‘closed’ restrictions. Here is a quick outline.
Instand Messaging/ Voip
As Om point’s out, Google GTalk will launch as the default IM client, but no VoIP will be supported through it. TMoblie will allow third party VoIP apps to work over Wi-Fi, but no 3G support
Marketplace
Google will be approving applications to the the Android Marketplace much the same as Apple has done with the ‘Guilty Until Proven Innocent’ approach.
Tethering:
TMobile will not be allowing Tethering for computers to connect and go online.
Bandwidth:
Although TMobile claims that for $25 a month, you will get the unlimited data plan ($35 for unlimited text), they will slow down your data sessions to 50 kbps after 1GB of use.
3G Coverage
3G connectivity will only be available for certain cities for the rollout. Check out their coverage map here.
Design
The phone design supposedly not changed in 2.5 years. What does that say about the ability for handsets to adapt to the OS?
Email
No exchange support. Must have a gmail account to even activate the phone.
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