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The age of the Android OS is at hand. But if you're not a current T-Mobile customer, it will cost you.

According to an unofficial T-Mobile blog, the first version of the multimedia Google Phone will be released by HTC starting on September 17 for one week, for T-Mobile customers only. This offer will be immediately followed by a general release a week later. It will be called, ostensibly, the G1.

Tmobilelogo2But a quirky aspect is the rumored price: $150 for the first week only, and then up to $250 and $400 (likely depending on the size) the week after that. That's a 33% difference! The $150 price point will place it right between the iPhone and Sprint's Samsung Instinct, but if it's more expensive, not even an innovative new OS and the hype that will come with it will make people run for it.

Data pricing, then, might determine the difference between the phones. Unfortunately, there is still no word on data.

Another rumor is that users will be required to own a Google Mail account. Potential buyers who do not own a Gmail account (and are forcibly against keeping more than one e-depository) won't like that one.

Android is the work of the Open Handset Alliance headed by Google, which is aimed to offer an open and free mobile platform. The Android SDK kit was released late last year, and we're not expecting to see a full fleet of the phones until next year.

The HTC G1 is supposed to include a 5” x 3” touch screen (making the 3.5” one of the iPhone look inadequate), a sliding QWERTY keyboard (like the Sidekick), a 3-megapixel camera, and 3G network connectivity.

However, T-Mobile's network is not as fully developed as At&T's – only Las Vegas and New York expect to have full T-Mobile 3G networks at launch.

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G1 has a large 3.2-inch colour touchscreen display with a resolution of 320 x 480 pixels. Weighing 158 grams, the phone is similar in size to 3G iPhone, just slightly heavier, and narrower at sides.

G1 comes in three colours, black, white and brown. The phone's large colour touchscreen slides out to expose a full keyboard









Google's G1 offers a host of multimedia features similar to that of Apple's iPhone and RIM's BlackBerry.

The phone has a trackball for navigation, high-speed Internet browsing, WiFi, email, instant messaging and SMS texting. The phone functions on 3G network and is specially designed to offer high-speed Internet surfing.

It also has a Global Positioning System (GPS), a 3 megapixel camera with photo-sharing capability and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a feature lacking on the iPhone. Like iPhone, in G1 users cannot shoot video.

There's also a feature by which Gmail users will get instant notification whenever they receive a new message in their inbox.

Not surprisingly, the device is Google-friendly. It integrates with Google applications such as Google Maps, Gmail and can play videos from YouTube, Google's video-sharing site.

G1 features a full Web browser, Chrome, and an updated version of Google Maps with a built-in compass and 360-degree photos. The Digital Compass works with Google Street View to give a 3D view of the street users are on if they tilt the phone up.

It comes with a built-in button on the keyboard as a shortcut for online searches.



TMobile G1 will be the first smartphone powered by the search engine company's software, called Android. Google has made Android software available for free to carriers and handset makers who want to use it to power their own devices. The search giant hopes that the open source software will eventually become the dominant operating system for mobile phones.

Android also competes with Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system, which has been solidly gaining ground. HTC Chief Executive Peter Chou told Reuters that his company, which has concentrated on Windows phones so far, is already planning more Android and Windows devices.

Android's biggest competitor is Symbian software, which represents 60 per cent of the smartphone market and which Nokia plans to buy out and open to other developers.


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G1 features Android Market, where customers can find and download free applications to expand and personalise their phones.

Both Google and Apple are wooing developers to create applications for their devices, but unlike Apple, which keeps a tight grip on the iPhone's hardware and operating software, Google's Android is open to change by outside developers.

Amazon.com's digital music store will be loaded on the G1, allowing users to search, download, buy and play more than six million songs, pitting it against iPhone's music player. Incidentally, the phone does not connect with Apple's iTunes service.

G1 will cost $179, $20 less than the 3G iPhone.

The data plans are also far less than those available for the iPhone in the US, with an unlimited text and Internet plan costing just $35, in addition to regular voice plans. The phone will be available in stores in the United States from October 22.

The G1 will be available in the UK in November and across Europe in the first quarter of 2009.

But if you thought Google phone is touchscreen device, you are wrong. According to Andy Rubin, who developed Android for Google, Google phones' interface is completely replaceable.

T-Mobile too plans to introduce a range of Google-powered phones, including more basic ones without a touchscreen or full `keyboards.

Motorola, LG and Samsung are expected to launch Android models worldwide in 2009 and their Google phones may appear vastly different from TMobile's G1.