The new phone powered by Google, called “G1″, is ready to showdown against at least two camps in the U.S market —the Apple iPhone and the RIM BlackBerry. It will be launched in New York tomorrow afternoon, and will be available in the US next month and then in British stores by November.
The phone, already dubbed the “G-phone” and was previously also referred to as Dream, built by HTC, is expected to cost about $200 from T-Mobile. Neither T-Mobile nor HTC has announced details about new phone, which run on Android, Google’s new software for mobile phones.
What lesson can be learned from this long-awaited smart phone launch? Can it be following the success of iPhone 3G launch? Or even creating another benchmark, break-through?
I just got an interesting insight from Sascha Segan of PCMag. “Google’s Android OS is really about ruling the world of feature phones, not the world of smart-phones,” he wrote.
“Most users don’t care about whether their phones are totally open or run high-end productivity apps,” Segan revealed. “Carriers want to be able to control how their networks are used; manufacturers want to lower their software costs, and brand and differentiate their handsets. And Google wants to try to make everyone happy.”
Since the Android phone has no experience at all dealing with the market, it’s too premature to speculate about its selling, users reactions, market responses and so on.
Will the Internet-friendly phone easily grab the users’ attention? Since “no one seems to know just how free and easy Google Android phones will be when it comes to customizability”, so let’s witness tomorrow’s history: T-Mobile G1 launch.









