Will Google's Dream be Apple's nightmare?
If, like this blogger, your impressed with the iPhone but prefer a mechanical keyboard and hate the closed OS and high-priced, single-supplier contract, good news is coming tomorrow.
TUESDAY UPDATE: Silicon Alley Insider covers the announcement. The price is $180. ReadWriteWeb has video clips. See more at Cell Phone Feeds.
A new smartphone is debuting [tomorrow] on Sept. 23 [at 10:30AM in NYC], and, no, it's not just another iPhone clone. The HTC Dream from T-Mobile will be the first handset to run Google's new [open] mobile operating system, Android. And while it won't look as sleek as the iPhone, it promises to give mobile-phone users a lot more freedom and flexibility.
Rumors are it will be available 10/20, at a price of around $200. It's been unofficially called the G1.
Unlike Apple, Google will allow creators to upload any application to the Android Market without its review.
While T-Mobile's HTC Dream [HTC has been building phones for others for over 10 years] will be the first phone to run Android, Google is inviting all carriers to develop handsets for the platform.
Sprint should have one out in the first quater of 2009. I'm probably wait until I see that to decide which one to buy.
It would be great if the phone manufacturers would build and sell the phones and the carriers would support any which meet their specs, but nobody asked me.
You should be able to read all about it at the HTC Dream website tomorrow. You can sign up for e-mail alerts.
Phandroid will be live blog posting from NYC during the announcement, scheduled to begin 10:30AM Tuesday.
It's believed to look like this:
This is thought to be a demo of it at Google Developer Day in London.
See more images and another video demo at rizzn.com.
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