Finally the first Android phone arrive in the US. Called G1, this phone is being offered by T-Mobile and start becoming available in the market.
For those who get curious how it looks like, here's a peek:
Function wise this phone start to have some unique personality which in the future might differentiate it significantly from the iPhone offering and concept. For example:
- This phone provides physical keyboard, which shall make it very easy and convenient to type in data, versus iPhone "soft keyboard approach" that tends to be slower (and less easy to do).
- This phone will support and will provide Adobe flash capabilities, which the iPhone lack.
- This phone OS is opensource and it can be embedded inside any machine, which is totally in contrast to iPhone OS's iPhone-only approach.
- This phone comes unlock -- hence can be used on any data network -- versus iPhone's exclusive AT&T network scheme and approach.
Indeed the phone is not pretty as iPhone yet. But considering that the mother of this phone is HTC, we surely can predict (and safely bet) that in the future there would be continuous stream of hardware innovation comes into it.
As for Apple iPhone, if this marvelous phone is kept being locked-in as it is today, the old history of the Mac (vs PC) in the 80's might have a very likely chance to happen again. The ongoing development of Android phone might need to be watched out very very carefully.
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