My jaw just hit the floor today, if these leaks turn out to be true. For those who don't want to read the full story here's some clips followed by my thoughts on it:
This is serious. Nobody has done this on android let alone Apple, MS or Blackberry. Order your phone, custom built to specification by you? Holy crap! I just had a nerdgasm when I read this!
Multiple nerdgasms. Google's flexing their considerable muscle here by subsidizing the phones themselves rather than the carrier. What does this mean for us? To sum up what I read there as well as some other articles about this, is that you could possibly buy this straight from Play Store this summer, choose your specs and hardware like you can currently do with PC's that you buy online, and receive your phone at reduced cost without carrier bloatware, carrier unlocked right out of the box, (both of which could possibly mean carrier-free updates) and at costs far below what you would pay for a similar phone from a carrier for a Samsung, HTC, Sony, etc. That's... mind blowing to say the least.
There of course will be other features as well I haven't listed but are talked about in the article, such as a tablet lineup to match, and this is basically the first of a wave of leaks, there will be more to come leading up to Google I/O in May. The first thing that occurred to me was, How might Google pull this off and make this a carrier-free world phone without the X Phone being non-LTE like the Nexus 4 ? Good news which I suspect might just tie into this if not the first batch but the next: Qualcomm outs global LTE chip, claims a world first Hardware made with the RF360 isn't expected to arrive on shelves until the latter half of 2013 which places it damn near the X Phone release dates.
In my not so humble opinion this is going to blow the doors off of the whole smartphone industry, including Apple's iPhone. AC, how did you guys miss this?
This is serious. Nobody has done this on android let alone Apple, MS or Blackberry. Order your phone, custom built to specification by you? Holy crap! I just had a nerdgasm when I read this!
Multiple nerdgasms. Google's flexing their considerable muscle here by subsidizing the phones themselves rather than the carrier. What does this mean for us? To sum up what I read there as well as some other articles about this, is that you could possibly buy this straight from Play Store this summer, choose your specs and hardware like you can currently do with PC's that you buy online, and receive your phone at reduced cost without carrier bloatware, carrier unlocked right out of the box, (both of which could possibly mean carrier-free updates) and at costs far below what you would pay for a similar phone from a carrier for a Samsung, HTC, Sony, etc. That's... mind blowing to say the least.
There of course will be other features as well I haven't listed but are talked about in the article, such as a tablet lineup to match, and this is basically the first of a wave of leaks, there will be more to come leading up to Google I/O in May. The first thing that occurred to me was, How might Google pull this off and make this a carrier-free world phone without the X Phone being non-LTE like the Nexus 4 ? Good news which I suspect might just tie into this if not the first batch but the next: Qualcomm outs global LTE chip, claims a world first Hardware made with the RF360 isn't expected to arrive on shelves until the latter half of 2013 which places it damn near the X Phone release dates.
In my not so humble opinion this is going to blow the doors off of the whole smartphone industry, including Apple's iPhone. AC, how did you guys miss this?
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