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IT Media sources reporting on the Googlephone release and it’s manifest inadequacies when compared to the Jesus Phone quoted Steve Jobs…

“I laughed so much a little bit of wee came out”

• No headphone jack
• No bluetooth stereo
• No iPhone-like touchscreen ability
• No Client for sync’ing your calendar, contacts etc
• Keyboard quoted as ‘mediocre’
• Plastics and build quality reported as poor

Wow…what an own goal !

Have been tracking the IE8 release cycle for a bit now and am thoroughly underwhelmed by it’s lack of innovation.

Then along comes Google’s Chrome with almost no fanfare and re-writes the browser paradigm. JS virtualisation in the app, threading in web apps presented as tabs…this is nothing more than an OS in a browser !

Then a little further research brought me to Aurora from Mozilla Labs…just delicious use of interface, component manipulation, semantic and relevance clustering in the FS and data sharing and manipulation between users in real time. Hope the UK BB environment evolves to be able to support this sort of interaction !

Just a little bit of tinkering with the GoogleMaps API and some geocoding stuff…should show a googlemap centered on home on which you then search for other locations, get directions etc etc