Google Android phone - GPhone launches in NYC
September 23rd, 2008 - 12:32 pm ICT by Bupha Ravirot ( 2 comments )
The Gphone, first mobile phone by Google launching in New York Tuesday, Sep 23, with fastest one-touch internet access and smooth multi-tasks.
Release of Gphone is expected to spark major competition with iPhone and other big mobile company such as BlackBerry and Sony. It is heading to markets in coming Christmas shopping season.
The Android based mobile phone is to cost $199, around the same cost of 8GB iPhone. Gphone featured with a slide-out keypad which is being manufactured by Taiwan’s HTC Corp, large touchscreen with vibrating feedback as well as a fold-out Qwerty keypad, faster web access, it has GPS chip which enables satellite navigation using Google maps, Gmail, Google Docs, Google Maps, GChat and Google’s new web browser and Chrome. It also has WiFi support and a 3.0 megapixel camera.
The Android based Gphone will be available in US in October and expected to reach mobile markets around the world soon.
Android is a software platform and operating system for mobile devices, based on the Linux operating system, developed by Google and later the Open Handset Alliance.
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March 11th, 2009 at 11:55 pm
Several months on and the G1 has proven to be extremely popular. In fact T-Mobile UK now claims that 20% of new contract sales are for the G1 and estimates put UK sales at 700 000 units. The followup to the G1, Vodafone’s HTC Magic should prove just as popular when it’s launched in Europe this April.
July 6th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
I live in Uganda down in East Africa (Africa) But i would like to buy the G phone but i dont leave in USA how can i make the orders because i cant wait to have that phone.