Google's G1 by Claudia Sonea

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, Google in collaboration with T-Mobile USA presents the G1! Well, don’t be disappointed although it looks like an iPhone, it is not that good. Google’s ambitions might not be fulfilled, but that depends solely on the average consumer because it is not a product addressing to business clients.
Let me introduce you a little bit the phone, so you can have a better perspective of the matter. Like all the Internet-to-go mobile phones, G1 too has a large touch screen with high-resolution however; extras would be a trackball, a slide-out keyboard, easy access to Google's e-mail and mapping programs and it can connect at Wi-Fi hotspots. Up to this points it sounds extremely good, but not for corporations due to the limited ability to connect to their e-mail servers. That should not disappoint Google by much, because the revenue it is expected to come from mobile advertising considered to be much more profitable than those shown on PCs. Thanks to the Android platform, that I already presented in one of my older articles, Google’s search engine and other services will be as easy to access from the cell phones as it is from the PC.
G1 phones will be available in US only in T-Mobile stores (located in 21 cities) starting October 22 and in November will get on European market too. T-Mobile will sell even in other cities besides the 21, but the order can be made only on T-Mobile's Web site. The secret is that the cities with T-Mobile stores also have its faster, third-generation wireless data network, so it works much better. By the way, it costs only $179- this being the cheapest of the high-end mobile phones existent on the market. What do you say, would you give it a try?


related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080923/ap_on_hi_te/tec_google_phone;_ylt=Ao7xtkFJ1PAtzlkWuigdgvSs0NUE

by Claudia Sonea for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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