Here's a new preview of Google Android:



I'm looking forward to replacing my XV6700 with a Google Android phone.

I have a few gripes about Windows Mobile. First, the mobile Internet Explorer just sucks. Opera Mobile 9.5 looks very nice, but they're dragging their ass at releasing it, and I suspect the reason is that the current generation of Windows Mobile phones aren't quite powerful enough for it.

But besides that, I want a phone that can synchronize well with Google Calendar and Gmail's contacts list.

I've not experienced Windows Mobile first hand, but I've still about some of its issues and I certainly look forward to have this offering as an alternative, so thanks for sharing Chug.

I use PointUI as my primary phone UI, and Opera Mobile 8.65 as my browser; between the two, I have no problems doing anything on my phone that I need to do.

I really have no need for a new "Google-ized" UI, and considering the bugs they have in every one of their apps, I don't really think I want one.

I have a xv6800...I am pretty annoyed with WM as well. Its slow and has memory leaks.

If android can sync to outlook, I'm gonna give it a serious look

The problem that I have with those types of interfaces (including the HTC Touch) is that you're just setting a touch-based interface on top of a bunch of applications that aren't really designed for touch.

And Opera Mobile 8.65 is a clear improvement over the mobile IE, but it still doesn't bring a "full web" experience to the mobile phone. I hate browsing to a site and seeing the text and images all scrambled up.

PointUI has mostly abandoned the touch interface in favor of using the hardware buttons on the phone. A d-pad is always going to be more accurate and useful than a touch screen, after all. Between the 5-way d-pad and the two hardware WM buttons, I can work every function of WM6 that I use daily from the PointUI interface. There are still a few elements that need replacement, notably the dialer and mail screens, but you should give it a try, it will change your mind about front-end UI replacements on WM.

I actually haven't seen many (non-flash) pages that Opera Mobile doesn't render correctly. I lock my view at 75% and zoom in when I need to read, and I almost always get when I need from it, as much as you can on a 320x240 screen anyway.

I'm still waiting on a consumer version of OpenMoko's Neo1973. The first wave of developer stuff is out, and a consumer version has been said to come this fall...but that means next year some time.

Well it's still not as good of an experience as I would like (though I know you can only do so much with a 320x240 screen). But when I navigate to a page, I want to see the whole page so I can get a feel of its layout. Then just tap on an area that I want to zoom in to.