TR has a look at the G1, Google’s first phone – and legitimately we can call it Google’s first – as the article mentions, as Apple and MS have done before, Google has set the specs as opposed to the network provider. I’m curious to find out if Nokia and Motorolla really bend over to the networks that much to make their handsets “fit” … but that is another conversation.
Anyway, I think that now that this phone is out, there is a fairly obvious new platform to start training our students on and about – if not creating/developing for, at least using. Phones are generally easy enough to use, but with the exception of some older relatives, I haven’t heard of many younger people being unable to use at least the basic phone and messaging elements of a phone, but as smartphone popularity increases, I’m sure we’ll have to teach students how to use phones as well as computers… or will we?
Hopefully, the menu buttons will be easy enough to find and the descriptions will be self explanitory so we won’t have some fool on TV selling CDs on “how to use your phone” like there are “how to use IE”.
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