After a great deal of hype, the first phone – the G1 – with Google’s Android platform has been unveiled and will soon be available for avid techies. It will appear on an HTC phone from T-Mobile and BBC Technology has a video showing how it works together with some commentary. There are plenty of other videos out there including this one that compares it to its main competitor – the iPhone. While the G1 has a useful qwerty keyboard the consensus seems to be that the iPhone looks sexier.
But it is not just the iPhone – there is also stiff competition from newly open-sourced Symbian which has the majority of the smartphone market and the deep-pocketed Windows Mobile.
One of the things that leaps out from this period of mobile innovation is the vast improvement in touch-screen technology. We did some research testing touch-screen mobiles only a couple of years ago and they were clunky. And anyone who has had to thump one of those public screens to buy a train ticket or look up some tourist information will know what I’m talking about. This latest generation of phones are light years ahead of that.
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