Google Android Mobile to be Launched – T Mobile HTC Dream

t mobile HTC dream (google android)

Steve Jobs, with such clandestine operations, swiped the whole world to the floor with the launch of iphone in 2007. With rumors floating around about Gphone, google certainly came with its own mobile platform. The first google android powered mobile is all set to hit the shelves tomorrow. Will this be the ultimate iphone killer?

Year 2007 was the dream year in apple’s calendar with the launch of iphone and leopard was showing its ferocity and mac sales soaring. Gphone was around the corner, but google surprised the world by coming up with the open source mobile platform. By making it open source, the number of developers involved in the project became multi fold. The open hand set alliance is all geared up and the show down is all set to September 23. In august, T mobile obtained approval from FCC and the HTC Dream (T-Mobile G1 phone) will be launched tomorrow.

The google mobile platform is equipped enough to handle different kinds of hardware and support advanced audio/video/image media formats such as MPEG-4, H.264, MP3, AAC, AMR, JPEG, PNG, GIF. The system boasts a inbuilt browser based on open source webkit, on the basis of which safari is built. With the accelerometer and other features, the platform is all set to challenge the iphone. While android is capable to handling java applications, flash support still remains a question. This is also the true with the iphone. The platform gives android developers a great opportunity to leverage with the unanimous treatment – “all applications are equal”.

The android powered T mobile is tagged with $199, and will come with a swivel-out full keyboard and with a large touch screen (see dimensions below). Google is also set to launch the google app store and it is rumored that most apps will be free. With Intel, Motorola, Sprint, Tmobile and google in the team, the development is expected to be very innovative and top-drawer. But there are a few sections of the SDK, that has been kept closed despite being labeled open source.

Also when support for java has been included, native apps that can run on java ME is not a part of the package and hence native java apps (those running on 2G phones) cannot be ported. The HTC dream houses a 3.1MP camera with no flash , 2048 × 1536 resolution.

Raw dimensions :

115 mm × 55 mm (4.53 in × 2.17 in), 16 mm (0.63 in) thick
Screen size is 3.17 inches (81 mm) with HVGA (480 × 320)

See it in action : Youtube video (~45 seconds)

Image credit : http://www.macrumors.com/

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