2011 arrived over a month ago and the mobile phone manufacturers have not stopped pushing out new android based phones. HTC Evo shift a smaller brother to the EVO was released with a builtin sliding QWERTY to the Sprint network. This month will see the HTC Thunderbolt, hopefully. Q2 will see the Motorola Bionic. I’m most interested in the Thunderbolt which is on Verizon’s new LTE network and similar in specs to the EVO. Some of you know that I currently have a droid, so you may be asking why not just stay with Motorola’s line of products. One reason is their stance against developer community which has helped to improve features that some felt were either missing or just not needed. Blur, which is in its current iteration a hot mess. Now dont get me wrong if not for Motorola and Verizon’s Droid 1, and the strong push I dont think manufacturers and carriers would be pushing android as much as they do now, but android still has a ways to go.
Speaking of ways to go anyone else a little upset by the rumored price of the Motorola Xoom, the supposed answer to the ipad. Xoom will be a 10.1″ tablet running Google’s Honeycomb, aka Android 3.0 which was designed for tablets. It looks gorgeous but at $799 and requiring a 3g plan, Verizon and Motorola are pricing themselves out of the average consumers price range for a device that basically would be in between a laptop and a desktop. Granted that is the same price as the 3g Apple ipad with similar specs but the issue is that there is no wifi only version which would bring down the costs for the consumer. Options are good things, ask Samsung, the galaxy tab while a mild success would probably have sold better if it had a wifi only option like the ipad.
2011 is shaping up to be an interesting time for the mobile community, here’s hoping that competition breeds an even brighter future for consumers.
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