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According to some sources the first Google’s smartphone will become available directly though the Google website as early as January 5. It is also know that this device will be sold by T-Mobile for $199 with contract. Google Nexus One runs on Android 2.1 operating system and supports GSM/GPRS/EDGE and UMTS/HSUPA networks. The list of technical characteristics looks good and includes 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU, 3.5 inch OLED touch screen with 800×480 px resolution, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g, Bluetooth 2.1 +EDR, GPS and microSDHC memory card slot.

Yesterday T-Mobile officially announced its second Android communicator – myTouch 3G which is a version of HTC Magic. Almost all surface of this device is covered by big touch screen with 3.2 inch diagonal and 320×480 px resolution. This new communicator supports third generation networks standards and a lot of Google’s services. Other characteristics are Qualcomm MSM7200A 528 MHz CPU, 3.2 Mp camera, 192 Mb RAM, 512 Mb ROM, microSD memory card slot, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, GPS module, FM radio, G-sensor and 1340 mAh battery. myTouch 3G communicator will become available in the beginning of the August and will cost $200 with two year contract.

HTC Company officially announced long-awaited second Android based smartphone which is know as G2 phone. The official name of this nice looking mobile device is HTC Magic. It will become available in spring. In contrast to the first Android smartphone G2 has no QWERTY keyboard and has classic shape. The list of characteristics of H looks very impressive Qualcomm MSM7200A 528 MHz CPU, 3.2 inch touch screen with HVGA (320×480 px resolution), 3.2 Mp camera with autofocus, 512 Mb ROM, 192 Mb RAM, microSD card slot, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, GPS, G-sensor and 1340 mAh battery.

Android operating system becomes more and more popular on world mobile technology market. T-Mobile introduced G1 only one a month ago but have already announced G2 smartphone which will appear by the end of the January. It is rumored that T-Mobile G2 Android based phone will support 2G and 3.5G networks and will have big touch screen, Wi-Fi, 5 Mp camera with autofocus and flash gun, microSD memory card slot (up to 16Gb), Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP profile support and additional camera for video calls. The official announce will take place in the 26th of January. Unfortunately there is no any information about pricing and its appearance.

Popularity of T-Mobile G1 device and fact that Googlephone is almost only Android based phone cause appearance of more and more concepts. This heir of the first phone by Google was named G2. Designers of this G2 phone concept use the same shape factor but the screen is bigger thanks to thinner frame around the periphery. We can also see that there is a number of nice looking widgets on the touch screen. The new version of Chromo browser will support Java V8, Flash, Silverlight and RealPlayer.

Provided to be that T-Mobile G1 is no longer the only Android based mobile device. Chinese Sciphone company developed Dream G2 communicator which runs on Google’s operating system. Producers from this eastern country react to all change on mobile market very rapidly. But almost always they position their devices to be prominent whereas in the most cases such mobile phones are low-quality fake and have no declared technical features. It seems that this mobile device is exclusion. Nevertheless some characteristics look dubious. So, let’s see. In contrast to Googlephone Dream 2 mobile device has no QWERTY keyboard and Google services support. The set of technical features includes 2.8 inch TFT touch screen with 240×320 px resolution support, 4 Mp camera with autofocus, FM radio, 50 Mb built in memory, microSD memory card support (up to 16GB), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP profile and 1500 mAh battery. Supported networks are GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/1800/1900 MHz. According to official source Dream G2 mobile phone will appear by the end of this month.

iSuppli company continues to do its favorite work - mobile devices’ cost calculation . This time it is T-Mobile G1. Calculated cost doesn’t include t costs of transportation, assembling and software development. So the cost of Google phone without all this additional exps is $143.89. Today T-Mobile G1 mobile phone is available at the price of $180. By the way similar analysis was performed for Apple iPhone 3G. Its “pure” price is $173. According to Tina Teng who is chief analyst of iSuppli T-Mobile G1 phone is nice and powerful device with good operating system. Nevertheless it is yields to iPhone in design and control simplicity. Prices for main components of Google phone are: ARM11 and ARM7 CPUs - $28.49, 3.2 inch touch screen – $19.67, camera - $12.13, radio-frequency amplifier -$9.84, built in memory - $9.70.

Some time ago Apple company was criticize for opportunity to control iPhone software remotely. They said that this function was included to reduce injurious actions of some applications which were downloaded on AppStore. The tactics of Big Brother also looks attractive for Google. According to use rules of Android Market which is AppStore analogue the opportunity to close harmful applications remotely is provided.
Computerworld.com tries to acquit Google and says that company declared such function of it’s own free will whereas Apple was red-handed. Secondly Google owners are going to give back money for each broken application.

Special site has already worked in the global network. It is created by T-Mobile for new T-Mobile G1 smartphone which is first Android mobile device. All official information about this phone will be available after today’s conference. But according to TmoNews this new mobile phone has touch screen with 320×480 px resolution, QWERTY keyboard, 3.1 Mp camera, Bluetooth and GPS modules. So, we have to wait for official release.

Google demonstrated HTC Dream mobile device which runs on Android OS. As you can see this mobile device has big touch screen and QWERTY keyboard, is equipped with accelerometer to provide maxim usability of Google Maps Street View. There is also some information about technical features such as 3.6Mbps HSDPA support, Qualcomm MSM7201A (528 MHz) 128 Mb RAM, 256 Mb ROM. Besides Google company representative declare interesting fact that Android OS was universal and suitable for any mobile devices even without screen. The demonstration was carried out on Google I/O conference.