Google is breaking the virtual world this fall with the launch of its first mobile phone. Not content to dominate the arena of search and online advertising, the company has developed an innovative mobile phone that much power as desktop computers use only a few years ago, and is clearly meant as a serious rival to Apple's iconic iPhone.
There is a three megapixel camera, one-touch access to YouTube and Google Talk instant messaging service, and almostplaying music tracks to allow users to download a new service, Amazon MP3.
All cry out loud and clear that the G1 is determined to consumers. In fact, when it launched in the UK in November on the T-Mobile network, you will not even rate a business at first.
The phone, officially called 'the T-Mobile G1 with Google "will be available on a £ 40 fee, including unlimited data for navigation. T-Mobile expects its reliance on a number of business usersas well, though, and there are some features that the G1 an attractive option for the growing number of mobile workers, wherever they are doing.
The phone, known as the G1, runs on a proprietary operating system from Google, Android, which is designed to enhance the experience of desktop computing to mobile devices. It connects to the Internet via Wi-Fi and 3G as the iPhone, make calls, send e-mail through Gmail, web browsing and using contacts and calendars are a touch screen ora click of the trackball road.
While the G1 has the same 3.2-inch screen as the Apple iPhone like keyboard and a touch screen that takes a lot of screen space, is one important difference: a QWERTY slide-out keyboard. Even if the keys are small and this probably makes mobile email easier and more realistic, as you can type a message from a decent length and on the big screen.
The G1 is the first phone with a built-in compass with motion-sensingTechnology and users can navigate using a street-level Google Maps: never lose on the road for meetings, interviews or lunches.
Users will be able to download additional software on the G1 Android Market, an online software superstore. Android is open source so anyone can develop programs for the phone and makes them available to other users without going through an approval process of Google.
Google claims the phone Android effectively future-proof, as consumerswill be able to get frequent updates to the operating system and new software. And somewhere between serious and seriously playful practical applications that are sure to be developed, there will be some who G1 more useful to businesses and professionals.
Android is another step towards the current obsession with technology companies: they provide a perfect mobile experience. Everyone in the industry is working to find a way to harness the computing power built inThis small device for everyone from students to enable mobile professionals much more to do with their phones
At present, however, while the G1 supports Microsoft Word and Excel, there is no Exchange support for corporate email. You have a Google Gmail account to use e-service and will not sync with Outlook, even if it is possible to work e-mail is automatically routed to a Gmail account, and are probably one of the first applications to support the third parties will beExchange.
Other applications available for download at launch cab4me, which finds a taxi and booking based on your location, PedNav that helps you find the best route on foot or by public transport to the place where you want, and ShopSavvy , a program that turns your phone into a barcode scanner that can be instantly price comparisons.
The G1 will run on a version of the new Google Chrome browser so you can search the Internet, and quick results, but the phonewill be patented multi-touch technology that lets you zoom in and zoom web pages simply by pinching and expanding gestures with their fingers on the screen.
Google's first phone made by Taiwanese manufacturer HTC, also losing to the iPhone in the looks department, with most reviews say it is an ugly duckling to swan by Apple. There is no doubt that the iPhone is the best phone around, but that may change when design-led future handsets based on Androidcreated by the will of LG and Samsung have released the next year or so.
In anticipation of the launch, the G1, critics have seen a mixed reaction. The consensus seems to be that it is a good first attempt, fast and responsive, and probably the first serious contender for the iPhone, but it just is not so tight, exciting and sexy.
Despite the inevitable, and not always favorably, comparisons with the iPhone, and gadget lovers are excited about the Google G1: Some reports estimate thatbefore its launch in the U.S. in October, the first award of the United States had 1.5 million units pre-ordered a further two million allocated to the retailers of high fashion. T-Mobile does not start with pre-order in the UK until a few weeks before the release of the phone, but he says that tens of thousands of people have already registered their interest.
The 'Google phone' is it not to get people buzzing about its design, but Android as flexible base will grow fromthe smartphone market worldwide is enormous. The day that we are all fast, powerful mobile devices, easy and convenient in our daily life and work, where it may be, on closer and closer. This time next year, G1 and his descendants would be well dealt another mortal blow to the PC desktop.
For more information on the G1 to learn and to register interest, go to www.t-mobile.co.uk/shop/mobile-phones/whats-hot/
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