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I'm a Linux-user and interested in Gphone features. But looking in wikipedia more and more I find deleted entries instead of information. This strategy to delete everything seems to be a conspiracy of competitors agents to reduce wikipedia's public value. -- [[User:77.0.163.176|77.0.163.176]] 09:50, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
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Don't be a fool, no real information has been made available by Google yet, the information was obviously removed because most of the entries were unsupported rumors. --ZCH <small>—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Zen Clark|Zen Clark]] ([[User talk:Zen Clark|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Zen Clark|contribs]]) 21:42, 11 October 2007 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
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I started a stub as the rumors of the new gphone is becoming stronger. May be someone from the industry who is in the know can help update this page. -- [[User:Thampran|Thampran]] 16:43, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
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So, the article went thru an [[Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/GPhone|AfD]], based on the fact that it was purely speculative, but it was decided to keep this article because it sounded like a sure thing. This morning, I read:
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http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/google-phone/nyt-confirms-no-google-phone-points-at-windows-mobile-alternative-308060.php
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This links to a page at NY Times, which requires a login:
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But it basically says there will be no gPhone. So much for rumors. [[User:Yngvarr|Yngvarr]] [[User talk:Yngvarr|(t)]] [[Special:Contributions/Yngvarr|(c)]] 12:17, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
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: From the article you mentioned above I can say that there could be a program called "Google Phone", not the mobile phone. Does it really matter for our Gphone aricle - hardware or software? --Yuriy Lapitskiy 16:56, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
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The introductory paragraph seems to have been messed up. Anybody care to correct it? [[User:207.112.73.134|207.112.73.134]] 13:57, 16 October 2007 (UTC) Andrew Netherton
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GPhone is written as gPhone. Does it mean that the technical restriction thing is not there anymore? --[[User:Kushal_one|'''Kushal''']]<sup>[[User_talk:Kushal_one|<small>t</small>]]</sup> 21:11, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
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:We use this template {{tl|lowercase|gPhone}} to make it lower case. <span class="sigInvitatious">[[User:Mahanga|Mahanga]]<sup>[[User talk:Mahanga|<font color="green">Talk</font>]]</sup></span> 16:44, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
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There is going to be a proper unveiling of the gphone in a couple of hours, so there will probably be a lot of new info added to this article very rapidly at that time. So... be prepared. [[User:JayKeaton|JayKeaton]] 17:34, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
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== discussions about user and functionality is being sabotaged. ==
== Renamed article to [[Android (mobile phone platform)]] ==
I've renamed this article to [[Android (mobile phone platform)]] to reflect the recent announcements. ''Google'' and ''33 other players'' in the mobile phone business announcing a Linux-based mobile phone platform, with much of it available as [[free software]]? Redmond won't be too happy about that.


Users need to be able to express their inabilities and experiences with downgrades. It's Impossible conducting efficient business (any) activities using android. Basic functions/ functionalities are missing. Constantly changing the interface is destroying peoples abilities including those most vulnerable with disabilities including intellectual. [[Special:Contributions/101.119.172.217|101.119.172.217]] ([[User talk:101.119.172.217|talk]]) 23:09, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
Once more detail has been added about the real announcement and the verifiable details of the Android software platform, we can start trimming down the sections on the initial speculation about the nature of the gPhone. -- [[User:The Anome|The Anome]] 17:55, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
:The title seems kind of long. How about naming it [[Android (platform)]]? <span class="sigInvitatious">[[User:Mahanga|Mahanga]]<sup>[[User talk:Mahanga|<font color="green">Talk</font>]]</sup></span> 18:07, 5 November 2007 (UTC)


:All of the issues you mention apply to almost all OS', none are limited to Android: Downgrades are not possible or are not possible for any length of time with any OS, you eventually have to upgrade for security reasons. Businesses do conduct efficient activities using Android. Basic functions/functionalities are available. Constantly changing the interface is an issue with other OS', e.g. Windows 7/2008 > 8/2012 >10/2016 has had massive UI changes, some mobile vendors add their own customised UIs, they have the freedom to do this, as also sometimes occurs with vendors of other operating systems. [[User:12think|12think]] ([[User talk:12think|talk]]) 13:12, 17 October 2024 (UTC)
Great work with the renaming. Makes perfect sense after reading [http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/wheres-my-gphone.html the official blog] <small>—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Kushal one|Kushal one]] ([[User talk:Kushal one|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Kushal one|contribs]]) 21:15, 5 November 2007 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->


== Semi-protected edit request on 25 August 2024 ==
I think Gphone is different from Android. Google is still having plans to release a phone based on Android...
This article should not be redirected to Android... What say??
[[User:Mugunth Kumar|Mugunth]] 03:43, 6 November 2007 (UTC)


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:Gphone or whatever it's being called does not exist. Google CEO specifically addresses this in the official press release. The redirect seems fine. '''[[User:Roguegeek|Roguegeek]]''' <small>([[User talk:Roguegeek|talk]])</small> 07:30, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
layer = player ? [[Special:Contributions/2603:8000:D300:3650:3D:8CA6:4574:8EE4|2603:8000:D300:3650:3D:8CA6:4574:8EE4]] ([[User talk:2603:8000:D300:3650:3D:8CA6:4574:8EE4|talk]]) 07:49, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
:[[File:Red information icon with gradient background.svg|20px|link=|alt=]] '''Not done:'''<!-- Template:ESp --> I assume you are referring to the sentence {{tq|"[...] most Android devices ship with a substantial amount of proprietary software, such as Google Mobile Services, which includes applications such as Google Play Store, Google Search, and Google Play Services – a software layer that provides APIs for the integration with Google-provided services [...]"}}. In this case, "layer" refers to an [[abstraction layer]]. [[User:Tollens|Tollens]] ([[User talk:Tollens|talk]]) 08:56, 25 August 2024 (UTC)


== This article may be semi-protected, but can someone PLEASE sort this paragraph out? ==
::People will still call this thing the Gphone for a while now. That's what it is really, the Gphone. We all named it that before we knew what it was, but the fact remains that we called Googles new project the Gphone, so that is one of its names. [[User:JayKeaton|JayKeaton]] 14:36, 9 November 2007 (UTC)


"Impact of phones around the traffic
== Licence ==
In 2020, researcher Simon Weckert performed an experience by carrying dozen of google-connected smartphones, carried all into a handcart, in a German city, showing that the simple fact pedestrian holding their phone could impact the information shown on Google's maps services, such as generating traffic jam."
Android is based on the linux kernel (and presumably some other GPL userspace stuff) with an apache licenced virtual machine. The licence indicated is only the "apache licence" but not the GPL, if google were to attempt to publish the linux kernel under hte apache licence then this would be a gpl violation. As such, the article should be cleaned up to draw attention to these issues. [[User:Variant|Variant]] 23:20, 6 November 2007 (UTC)


It's a mess. [[User:GhettKraken|GhettKraken]] ([[User talk:GhettKraken|talk]]) 16:38, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
:Documentation has not been released on how licenses will work and, therefore, is just speculation until such information is released. Any editor speculation should also be removed immediately unless a proper source can be cited. Thoughts? '''[[User:Roguegeek|Roguegeek]]''' <small>([[User talk:Roguegeek|talk]])</small> 07:28, 7 November 2007 (UTC)


:Hi, I removed the entire paragraph about simulating a traffic jam in Google maps, as Google maps runs on iPhones too, it is not an Android issue. And it is already mentioned in <nowiki>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Maps#Criticism_and_controversies</nowiki> [[User:12think|12think]] ([[User talk:12think|talk]]) 07:19, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
== Redirect from Android Operating System ==


== Update lead paragraph ==
Much of the media is calling this the 'Android operating system', rightly or wrongly. Without debating whether this is an operating system or not, I set up a redirect page for those who search for 'Android operating system'. Thanks, '''[[User:Lester|<span style="color:green">Lester</span>]]''' 01:01, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
I would like to update the lead paragraph to better reflect its everyday use. Android is developed as an operating system that targets laptop and desktop form factors as well as mobile, Android supports multi-window, multi-display, multi-instance, and picture-in-picture, Keyboards, mice, & trackpads, billions of bluetooth devices, ARM and x86 architectures, full free form windows and resizing. It is shipped and used in 10s of millions of Chromebooks. So it has not been solely a [[Mobile operating system]] for many years, it is an [[Operating system]], iOS and iPadOS are solely Mobile operating systems. The articles [[Mobile operating system]] and [[Operating system]] will need to be updated soonish too.--[[User:12think|12think]] ([[User talk:12think|talk]]) 08:13, 16 October 2024 (UTC)


== Lack of software support for a decade ==
== More details? ==


Most of the sentences are grammatically wrong, hard to read or even totally incomprehensible. The main idea presented is also redundant to paragraphs further above. I would suggest deleting the whole paragraph. [[User:Blausonorisch|Blausonorisch]] ([[User talk:Blausonorisch|talk]]) 19:21, 27 October 2024 (UTC)
Does anyone know what this does? The article on the News Channel on my Wii makes it sound like a piece of software you install, and search the internet / maps / emails, much like it's Desktop Search application. Yet this hints at it being more of a full-blown Operating System. Does it target a specific "type" of phone? (Windows Mobile, Palm, Symbian and so forth) or will it only be bundled with a Google brand phone? What about the history of Android? Surely it couldn't be set up and then days later bought out by Google. There has to be more to it.


:I agree that the whole section is difficult to read, but it is a known criticism, perhaps time should be spent tidying it up. [[User:12think|12think]] ([[User talk:12think|talk]]) 16:04, 11 November 2024 (UTC)
Anyone? <small>—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/202.134.239.230|202.134.239.230]] ([[User talk:202.134.239.230|talk]]) 09:03, 9 November 2007 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->


== Semi-protected edit request on 24 November 2024 ==
:You had it right on the first one. It is, more or less, an open source operating system for mobile phones. Though you don't have to pay for it by the looks of it, so it is more like [[Linux]] than [[Microsoft Windows]]. But who knows, Google may make a phone yet, or at least the people Google are partnered with may make a phone that is designed from the ground up for Android. [[User:JayKeaton|JayKeaton]] 14:40, 9 November 2007 (UTC)


{{Edit semi-protected|Android (operating system)|answered=yes}}
Under Criticism and Controversy, it says GPDR instead of GDPR. [[Special:Contributions/196.190.52.152|196.190.52.152]] ([[User talk:196.190.52.152|talk]]) 05:43, 24 November 2024 (UTC)
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== Requested move and retarget of Android to Android (operating system) ==
== Android Redirect ==
I tried to set up a redirect from the word Android, to make this the main article that comes up when a user searches for it, as it is recent news, but I was having some trouble doing it properly, someone want to help me pick up the slack? [[User:Haggisfarm|Haggisfarm]] 16:55, 9 November 2007 (UTC)


See [[Talk:Android#Requested_move_27_November_2024]] <span style="color: #1a237e; background-color: #fff176; font-weight: bold;">[[User:JayCubby|JayCubby]]</span> <span style="color: #fff176; background-color: #1a237e; font-weight: bold;">[[User talk:JayCubby|Talk]]</span> 01:37, 27 November 2024 (UTC)
:[[Android]] already has an article and should probably stay the way it is unless you can come up with a good reason as to why the main android article shouldn't be using that name. Thoughts? '''[[User:Roguegeek|Roguegeek]]''' <small>([[User talk:Roguegeek|talk]])</small> 17:11, 9 November 2007 (UTC)


== Semi-protected edit request on 7 December 2024 ==
::I can say with a lot of certainty that you will never be able to turn Android into a redirect or move this article to [[Android]]. You are welcome to try, but from my point of view it is an impossible task that will be met with hostility from the community. [[User:JayKeaton|JayKeaton]] 18:35, 9 November 2007 (UTC)


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== XMPP? ==
Under the "Update Schedule" it is stated that the latest major version is Android 14, which is now Android 15 [[User:Lewislfoster|Lewislfoster]] ([[User talk:Lewislfoster|talk]]) 14:01, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
"[[XMPP]] Service" is listed in the "Application Framework" section of their architectorial overview video, see http://youtube.com/watch?v=Mm6Ju0xhUW8
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But it is not mentioned in the presentation. This would enable interesting VOIP applications built using these devices. <small>—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/87.227.76.225|87.227.76.225]] ([[User talk:87.227.76.225|talk]]) 23:42, 12 November 2007 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

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discussions about user and functionality is being sabotaged.

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Users need to be able to express their inabilities and experiences with downgrades. It's Impossible conducting efficient business (any) activities using android. Basic functions/ functionalities are missing. Constantly changing the interface is destroying peoples abilities including those most vulnerable with disabilities including intellectual. 101.119.172.217 (talk) 23:09, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

All of the issues you mention apply to almost all OS', none are limited to Android: Downgrades are not possible or are not possible for any length of time with any OS, you eventually have to upgrade for security reasons. Businesses do conduct efficient activities using Android. Basic functions/functionalities are available. Constantly changing the interface is an issue with other OS', e.g. Windows 7/2008 > 8/2012 >10/2016 has had massive UI changes, some mobile vendors add their own customised UIs, they have the freedom to do this, as also sometimes occurs with vendors of other operating systems. 12think (talk) 13:12, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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layer = player ? 2603:8000:D300:3650:3D:8CA6:4574:8EE4 (talk) 07:49, 25 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: I assume you are referring to the sentence "[...] most Android devices ship with a substantial amount of proprietary software, such as Google Mobile Services, which includes applications such as Google Play Store, Google Search, and Google Play Services – a software layer that provides APIs for the integration with Google-provided services [...]". In this case, "layer" refers to an abstraction layer. Tollens (talk) 08:56, 25 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This article may be semi-protected, but can someone PLEASE sort this paragraph out?

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"Impact of phones around the traffic In 2020, researcher Simon Weckert performed an experience by carrying dozen of google-connected smartphones, carried all into a handcart, in a German city, showing that the simple fact pedestrian holding their phone could impact the information shown on Google's maps services, such as generating traffic jam."

It's a mess. GhettKraken (talk) 16:38, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I removed the entire paragraph about simulating a traffic jam in Google maps, as Google maps runs on iPhones too, it is not an Android issue. And it is already mentioned in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Maps#Criticism_and_controversies 12think (talk) 07:19, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Update lead paragraph

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I would like to update the lead paragraph to better reflect its everyday use. Android is developed as an operating system that targets laptop and desktop form factors as well as mobile, Android supports multi-window, multi-display, multi-instance, and picture-in-picture, Keyboards, mice, & trackpads, billions of bluetooth devices, ARM and x86 architectures, full free form windows and resizing. It is shipped and used in 10s of millions of Chromebooks. So it has not been solely a Mobile operating system for many years, it is an Operating system, iOS and iPadOS are solely Mobile operating systems. The articles Mobile operating system and Operating system will need to be updated soonish too.--12think (talk) 08:13, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Lack of software support for a decade

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Most of the sentences are grammatically wrong, hard to read or even totally incomprehensible. The main idea presented is also redundant to paragraphs further above. I would suggest deleting the whole paragraph. Blausonorisch (talk) 19:21, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that the whole section is difficult to read, but it is a known criticism, perhaps time should be spent tidying it up. 12think (talk) 16:04, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 24 November 2024

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Under Criticism and Controversy, it says GPDR instead of GDPR. 196.190.52.152 (talk) 05:43, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Many thanks The AP (talk) 15:59, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move and retarget of Android to Android (operating system)

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See Talk:Android#Requested_move_27_November_2024 JayCubby Talk 01:37, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 7 December 2024

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Under the "Update Schedule" it is stated that the latest major version is Android 14, which is now Android 15 Lewislfoster (talk) 14:01, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done '''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (talk • contribs) 13:56, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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