T-Mobile First Phone With Google Software’s Android

Google, Mobile Phone — August 16, 2008 at 9:19

T-Mobile is going to launch a first mobile phone powered by Google’s Android software. The phone will be made by HTC, largest mobile phone maker in the word, and is expected to launch in the US before Christmas, perhaps as early as October.

According to the article, The high-end phone is expected to match many of the capabilities of Apple’s iPhone and other so-called smartphones that run software from Palm, Research in Motion, Microsoft and Nokia to access the Internet and perform computer like functions.

In an interview on CNBC this week, Eric E. Schmidt, Google’s chief executive, said:

We can make more money on mobile than we do on the desktop, eventually,

Richard Wong, a venture capitalist at Accel Partners, which invests in mobile start-ups said:

The launch of Android is an important milestone in the industry,

He further stated that he found most exciting was that Google’s Android and Apple’s iPhone:

forces others to innovate faster.

Some makers of mobile software programs have complained that creating applications for Android has been difficult, as Google has continued to make changes to the operating system and has at times been too busy to provide support to developers. Some of those software makers have chosen to focus their development efforts, at least for now, on phones that are already on the market like the iPhone or the BlackBerry, made by Research in Motion.

The good thing for T-Mobile is that since it’s 3G network is undeveloped (only Las Vegas and New York expect to have full T-Mobile 3G networks at launch), it won’t be hearing complaints about 3G coverage as Apple has.

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