The buzz:
This baby of Google and T-Mobile (a US mobile network) will be the first phone running Android, Google’s new open source mobile operating system.
What that means:
We have yet to get our hands on the G1 but expect Android to excel at cloud computing (see above), particularly when it comes to Google applications, which come preinstalled.
The hardware:
The phone has a touch-screen and the slide-out QWERTY keyboard which is definitely a winner. And since it’s a Google phone, connectivity is a priority with wifi and 3G on a different network from the iPhone (in the US at least). It also has a 3.2 megapixel camera, a trackball that acts like a mouse (like a BlackBerry) and GPS. It only has 2GB memory but it does take SD cards.
The verdict:
Our favorite tech blogs suggest this phone could actually become the real iPhone killer—if only it didn’t look so 1999.
There’s no word yet on when the G1 will be hitting MBK, but its official release date is on Oct 22 at a price of US$179 (B6,000).
