Android Goes All E61 On Us
Published by Ewan Spence at 9:33 UTC, February 4th 2008
First shots of the proto hardware Google is using for the Android project are available at Gizmodo, and it looks remarkably like a Nokia E61 (or a Blackjack or Blackberry, depending where your loyalties lie). Given this will probably not be the final hardware, a functional design, with qwerty keyboard, was to be expected.
From Gizmodo...
It looks HTC-ish in build, similar to the grainy versions we've seen in the official videos and the renderings in the SDK emulator. Our source, a Giz reader, had some feedback to add to the prototype, which he used for a day: Even in early form, it's light and fast, much faster than the desktop emulator at times.
The full article is here.
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News Discussion
| it looks remarkably like a Nokia E61 (or a Blackjack or Blackberry, depending where your loyalties lie) |
*holds up Android* "And what do you see in this one?"
"I'd say an E61, but in my heart, I know it looks like a cheap piece of HTC rubbish"
I suppose it's one way to make sure nobody steals the prototype!