MG Siegler wrote:

Such an app makes perfect sense. One of the key selling points of the iPhone remains the fact that it is also a great iPod music player. The fact that it can connect and download music directly from the iTunes store on the device, is great for getting music on the go. One thing you cannot yet do through the mobile iTunes store however is buy/rent movies or any other form of video. Our source believes that Amazon’s app will allow for that.

The Amazon music store on Android will almost for sure be a mobile version of its AmazonMP3 online digital music store, which is gaining popularity, but still far behind iTunes. Any video store would seem to be based on Amazon’s just relaunched Video On Demand service. It would seem unlikely though that you’ll be able to stream movies over the service, instead, I would bet you’ll only be able to buy them.

Looking forward to hear more Amazon’s mobile store details for Android.

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.

There are currently about 3.2 billion mobile subscribers in the world, and that number is expected to grow by at least a billion in the next few years. Today, mobile phones are more prevalent than cars (about 800 million registered vehicles in the world) and credit cards (only 1.4 billion of those). While it took 100 years for land-line phones to spread to more than 80% of the countries in the world, their wireless descendants did it in 16. And fewer teens are wearing watches now because they use their phones to tell time instead (somewhere Chester Gould is wondering how he got it backwards). So it’s safe to say that the mobile phone may be the most prolific consumer product ever invented.

However, have you ever considered just exactly how powerful these ubiquitous devices are? The phone that you have in your pocket, pack, or handbag is probably ten times more powerful than the PC you had on your desk only 8 or 9 years ago (assuming you even had a PC; most mobile users never have). It has a range of sensors that would do a martian lander proud: a clock, power sensor (how low is that battery?), thermometer (because batteries charge poorly at low temperatures), and light meter (to determine screen backlighting) on the more basic phones; a location sensor, accelerometer (detects vector and velocity of motion), and maybe even a compass on more advanced ones. And most importantly, it is by its very nature always connected.

Read the complete post from Google Blog.

Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins posted some pictures which he mentioned as gPhone. He also published its YouTube video version.

One of my super secret spies at Google just happened to trade contact information with someone who admitted that the phone in his hand was the rumored Dream.

Is it really a final T-Mobile G1? According to 14u, there is still some doubt as to if this is the final T-Mobile G1 or not, as the device was often claimed to be a developer prototype.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Yeah, whether it’s an actual T-Mobile G1 or not, it’s still worth enjoying these pictures.

PS. Our sister site AndroidCommunity.com has got invited to the press event, and will be doing a live blogging through out the event with hands on report. Check out http://live.androidcommunity.com on September 23rd for the live report!

Source [androidcommunity]