
Joyeux Noël!!! depuis Castellar où après 2 jours de pluie on découvre enfin le vrai visage de la Côte d’Azur…
“If you are a Gmail user/Google user, you will end up as an Android user” (don’t remember where I read that)
Here is some notes from a reading in WSJ and the Consumer Forrester blog.
Few take away (speculations, nothing is confirmed by Google)…
- The phone will be directly sold to consumer (direct sale without going through the carriers, hense unlock)
- Code name: Nexus One
- Manufactured by HTC
- Running Android
- Google designed the entire software experience (applications and “look and feel”)
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In my move to Google services (more generally going “all cloud”), I started to use Gmail (love it though there are rooms for improvement regarding the UI) but I also wanted to start using Google Calendar.
Before: One agenda that contains both work and personnal information hosted in Outlook at work. I synched it with mobile device over USB or bluetooth. Pros: one agenda with all my appointements and todo in one place, can take it with me on my phone, nothing in the cloud (no “corporate” securiy issue). Cons: Mixing both professional and private appointments, I can not share it, no access control (my management could see my personal appointment ?).
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