Comments on: Sexy Android phone, General Mobile DSTL1 ready for action

By: tal

tal — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:41:36 +0000

^^^ I mean a successful open handset OS

By: tal

tal — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:40:18 +0000

android is very disappointing atm. seems like something that might blow up in 3 months unless something radical happens. next month in the mobile event it is going to be evident if we get to see more mainstream hardware or just 3rd grade manufacturers chasing the wind.
An open handset OS is going to happen eventually but only in a few years. The prerequisite there in my humble opinion is hardware standardization as we have with PCs. Till then only Palm and Apple type of hardware-software bundles are going to be a winning solution.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:20:53 +0000

Hmm, reading this again, did I see this right? This is NOT a 3G phone (just EDGE)? What were they thinking?

By: James Kendrick

James Kendrick — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:04:51 +0000

oliver, you are correct and the post has been updated.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:48:23 +0000

@JK — your blog post (and maybe your original source as well… I didn’t follow the link) says the phone is made by Sharp. The product page from General Mobile only says that the camera and the touch screen are “Sharp brand”.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:45:46 +0000

@Frank — http://www.generalmobile.com/new/Default.aspx?PageName=Corporate

Entertaining. Also quite interesting — the full product name for this phone is “DSTL1 Imaginary”. Setting the stage for vaporware jokes, I guess, similar to that “Phantom” game console.

By: Frank McPherson

Frank McPherson — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:50:17 +0000

Who is General Mobile? Why should we think this device will actually see the light of day?