Google Now's smartphone is the real deal

Re:Google Now's smartphone is the real deal by freehunter on Friday February 15, 2013 @02:29PM (#5227985)

I actually have it running on my HP Touchpad running Ice Cream Sandwich. Isn't one of the benefits of Android that it's so open you can make it do just about anything? If I didn't want to hack my mobile device, I definitely would not have gotten invested in the Android platform. In my opinion, that ability is literally the only advantage it has over the competition. Without the hacker community supporting it, it's basically an iPhone with fewer apps.

What I'm saying is, you can either get Jelly Bean on your device via Cyanogenmod or you can get ICS and hack Google Now onto it with instructions found online.

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Re:Google Now's smartphone is the real deal by chris_mahan on Friday February 15, 2013 @06:15PM (#5229310)

I'm not rooting my phone. Not enough time to play with it. Need it to work when school calls and I have to go pick up my son.

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Re:Google Now's smartphone is the real deal by freehunter on Sunday February 17, 2013 @01:19PM (#5236091)

I bought a Windows Phone because I wanted something that just works when it needs to work, and also is slick, modern, well-integrated, and protected by a walled-garden. I bought into the Android platform with a device that is not on contract and is not a phone, because I am willing to accept hacking around on and breaking a non-phone device.

Not that I'm denigrating your choice in any way, it has no bearing on my life at all, but I'm genuinely curious as to why anyone would buy an Android phone unless they're willing to hack it to bits. In my opinion, without root access on an Android phone, you're using an iPhone without great software support. The only draw of Android over the iPhone in the last three months that I can see is root access and a hacker community supporting it. Especially when it means buying an out-of-date and possibly out-of-support phone.

What drew you to the Android platform over the iPhone platform if you're not willing to update your software manually and are resigned to not getting a software upgrade until you buy a new phone? That seems ridiculous to me. Even on Windows Phone, every device that came with WP7 got WP7.5 and WP7.8.

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Re:Google Now's smartphone is the real deal by chris_mahan on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @12:27PM (#5245614)

On android: my phone does "just work" and it's got a good camera, and plays youtube videos. I prefer hacking on the raspberrypi, personally.

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Re:Google Now's smartphone is the real deal by chris_mahan on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @12:25PM (#5245597)

I'm not interested in purchasing Apple products, for other reasons.

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