Andrex said:
It sucks Chojin and T-Mobile and Vodafone hate us all so much, though. :/
I don't hate you
Don't kill the messenger.
::Takes off the tie::
/T-mobile
You gotta look at this from a bird's eye view. T-mobile is not a phone manufacturer. They're a service company. Not only is it a service company they're also the youngest big faceless corporation in the business compared to the baby bells. What I'm trying to get at is that T-Mobile needed to work with what they have and go for it.
HTC unveiled the magic in february, Hero was unveiled officially in June. Lets forget for a moment that Tmo released the G1 in october of last year and SHOULD have at least come up with a followup sometime in March. Deal with HTC was most likely locked down during the Mobile World Conference, and then all of a sudden HTC pulls an upset in with the Hero. With that in mind Tmo had spent months prior to June getting the branding down with the Magic. I'm not saying we're getting the Hero, I'm not saying we are. Right now the focus is 110% on myTouch blowing down the doors.
In short, what I'm saying is that just because a manufacturer unveils a product doesn't mean its going to get shipped right out the door the next day. These things take a lot of time to get right, lots of dudes in suits having lattes and focus groups and markting and blah blah blah.
Look at it this way, we're all techies here, but like uh... (sorry if I"m biting more than I can chew) the Wii, we need to look at the broader perspective and getting as much Android into the consumers hands. The Magic might not be the most AMAZAZING phone evar, but its still a contender for great. It takes more than just specs, and the way we're delivering the experience and overall package is really quite awesome (I mean for holy crap's sake we're offering a 2 year warranty on it, that's unprecedented). From a techies view its not the most awesome thing ever, but in the hands of the regular consumer? This thing is sliced bread. Despite Engadget's scathing review of it (don't get me started on the iPhone bias) it's really going to perform well and be a leader for the Android platform in the US. And then when Android is a household name, that's when the big guns will come out.
I wasn't trying to keep your spirits down, its just it would be a shot in the foot to hype this thing so much and then all of a sudden release yet another device so soon (oh wait, remember when the iPhone did that? And to rub salt on the wounds release the iTouch, I mean sheesh). I'm not saying its going to be a dry spell till christmas, I'm just saying we're not going to release two devices to compete against each other so quickly.
And remember, I work for T-Mobile, which we have our own branding of phones. But android is an open platform and we don't have the monopoly on android based phones, there's lots of mobile device manufacturers out there
If you catch my drift
Anyway, the only real negative I have towards the phone is Tmo's decision to go with the 198 meg version. The only thing, and this is purely my own conjecture and not anything else, is that they locked down the deal so early after the success of the G1 and it was too late to get the 288 meg version.
Other than that, MAYBE, which this could be a total boner or a pure mad stroke of genius, was actually naming the thing "myTouch" I thought it sounded too close to iTouch, but maybe thats the gameplan all along @.@
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uts tie back on::
T-Mobile.
Anyway, I don't comment on any rumors or speculation
Remember there's 4 quarters in a year. Summer is rarely a big month for hardware, everyone's on vacation. Now when school starts, or when the holidays come around. Thats when people are looser with their cash monies
So just chew on that for a bit.
