Today marks T-Mobile’s official announcement of the release of the very first phone on the market utilizing Android, Google’s highly anticipated mobile phone operating system (and you thought Google was just a search engine!). Is the T-Mobile G1 with Android the iPhone killer many people were expecting? No, it doesn’t appear to be so. Not to say that Google won’t pull this off as more Android based phones begin to proliferate the marketplace. One of the greatest qualities of Android is that it is probably the most developer friendly platform out there. Android does not distinguish between the phone’s built-in applications and user-created applications. They can all be designed to have equal access to a phone’s capabilities providing users with a greater variety of applications and services than any other mobile platform in existence. Given this level of flexibility, Android is likely to (over time) eat away at Apple’s Iphone dominance.
The T-Mobile G1 will be on sale October 22, 2008 with a 2 year contract price of $179.
Since some reviewers were able to get their hands on the G1, full reviews of the T-Mobile G1 and the Android platform should be flooding the web right about now. Just do a Google search.
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