GTalk, Bluetooth Missing from Android Phones
Techtree News Staff, Aug 28, 2008 1206 hrs IST
iPhone 3G's limited Bluetooth capabilities had us bothered, but now the news is coming that the Android phone will also just support handsets
Reason behind limited Bluetooth capability? Android engineers ran out of time so had to remove the API from the 1.0 release! But worry not, they intend to support a Bluetooth API in the future release.
That's not all -- Android Developers Blog reveals that the GTalk has also been removed from the latest SDK because of security issues. As the blog puts it, "...the idea of a Google Talk friend does not always line up with the types of people who may want to interact with via an Android application. For example, imagine a really cool mobile Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game using GTalkService. You would have to add all the players to your Google Talk friends list in order to play with them. Next time you log in to Google Talk from your desktop or on the web, you would notice that you have many new "friends". You may not want to chat with these friends -- and perhaps worse, you may not want them to know what your real name or email is."
Sounds like a genuine reason to scrap GTalk but lets hope they come out with a better solution.
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