First Google Android phone is unveiled
T-Mobile’s unveiled the first phone powered by Google’s Android software today Tuesday, Septebmer 23, 2008. Gphone is built by Taiwanese firm HTC and was released by Google and T-Mobile executives in New York. Google phone targets both the iPhone and the Blackberry.
The phone runs on Google’s open source Android software, which Google hopes will eventually become the dominant operating system for mobile phones and make handsets compatible with the networks of multiple carriers.
Gphone will be available in the market for $179. Starting today, existing T-Mobile customers will be able to order it online to be delivered to them when it becomes available. the official launch date at T-Mobile stores will be October 22nd. T-Mobiles announched 2 data options for the device.
A $25 plan that will offer limited messeaging.
A $35 Plan that offers unlimited messaging and web facilities.
Some of the main features include
- 320×480 touch screen
- Trackball for thumb-based navigation
- Built-in Internet applications
- 5 hours talk time, 130 hours standby Battery Time
- 3.1 Mega Pixel Camera
- A hidden QWERTY keyboard
- GB MicroSD card preinstalled
- GSM,GPRS,EDGE and Wi-Fi
- Available in White, Black and Brown
And access to thousands of applications via the new Android marketplace. I’m getting one for me…are you?
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WANT! android eh? if it supports all of Google’s easy-to-program features, hell yeah! I’d grab me one just to program it never mind using it!
Photoshopped. lol
Seriously though, I would consider purchasing one simply because it’s open source and I support that all the way. Plus, I hate Microsoft and I’ll give up a few hundred bucks to help take a stab at those bastards. Go Google!
Photoshopped? come on moron why is it that everything online nowadays is supposedly photoshopped? Is it because you can’t touch it? feel it? that it’s fake?? get a life dude…get OUT of the house and away from the computer…
Anyone know if it will be available to Canada? I’d love one, although I did JUST get an Instinct recently!! I love that there will be apps for the android though and a 3.1 camera plus wifi would be an improvement on what I’ve got! I’ll be keeping my eyes open…
Dude, Saud, L2Internet.
It’s a joke, that’s why 1. he lol’d 2. he said “seriously though,” and 3. you fail.
back to the phone though, Do want. Actually, on second thought I don’t really care. I don’t need a phone to do all that crap. a need a phone to A. fit in my pocket B. Make calls C. recieve texts D. Store phone numbers because I never was very good at remembering phone numbers.
@ Saud- http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sarcasm
Learn to laugh more.
@ poster- to say that Google’s app is open source is a misnomer, but I understand why so many peeps refer to it that way. Even Google refers to it as “open source” Read the terms of agreement to anything google has released and refer to section 11-1. It is “open” but is not “Open Source”
I like the phone and would probably get one but would do so with the knowledge of what it really is. Just a new gadget supported by a company I like. I agree w/ Rob Frost…
Screw MS.
Remember:
“Do No Evil” – Google.
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