The new Smart phone from Google G1 has been eagerly anticipated and is set to become one of the best selling technology products at Christmas time.
The phone itself is manufactured by HTC, a Taiwanese manufacturer, and will be offered exclusively through T- Mobile in the UK.
So what’s so special about the new phone you might say. We already have the apple iPhone , the Blackberry and countless similar smart phones to choose from already?
What makes Google’s offering special is not so much the phone itself but the operating system behind it. Up until now, all mobiles have run on standard software which could only be modified or adapted by the phone manufacturer. Android is s different proposition entirely. Android is an open source application which basically means that anyone with the know-how can work with the software to improve it or to make applications specifically for it.
So you might think, well that’s all well and good for computer geeks but how do I benefit from this?
Well the challenge that mobile manufactures face is to create a phone and an operating system which will connect seamlessly with the internet. Up to present no manufacturer has quite managed it? the Android operating system brings us closer to achieving this. Much in the same way that Google has evolved it’s Search Service and other products like Google Maps by using the combined knowledge of all of it’s users it can develop a system which will work much better over time.
There are more versions of the Google phone in the pipeline with LG and Samsung likely to reveal mobiles that run on the Android platform next year.
Order your GI Google Phone from T Mobile now!