Analysts expect Android sales to go up in the fourth quarter of this year. Strategy Analytics estimates about 10.5 million smartphones to be sold in the U.S. during that period. From those, 400,000 are expected to be G1 handsets from T-Mobile.
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Tuesday T-Mobile is going to officially reveal the HTC Dream aka G1 as the first Android phone. In the mean time the Google phone was shown on T-Mobile’s Site. Go to http://my.t-mobile.com and you might still find it. Some people say the link itself has been taken down while other report that clicking on the G1 will get you nowhere for now.

Probably T-Mobile is experimenting in order to be ready to properly launch the device on September 23rd.

T-Mobile has announced that their 3G network is going to further expand to 8 more markets by mid-October. That’s quite a remarkable effort and coordinated with the upcoming G1 launch should increase mobile sales.

Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, Orlando, Philadelphia, Sacramento, San Francisco and Seattle are the next cities which will get T-Mobile’s 3G network while Birmingham, Denver, Detroit, Kansas City, Memphis and Tampa will have it by the end of the year.
Add the Android device to the mix and you will have a great network and a great phone.

Google is yet to take the wraps off Android, but it seems to be having much better luck with its other applications. The search engine giant has released a new Google Maps version for cell phones, which now comes loaded with its oft-used Street View feature as well. Users in the United States can now access 360-degree snaps of streets and places they want to be at, making businesses and locations easier to locate when they are lost and need some pictorial guidance. The new Google Maps application has also business reviews and can provide walking directions to the location if you feel it deserves your attention. Get yours by heading over to Google Maps from your BlackBerry or any Java-enabled cell phone.
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There has been a lot of buzz going around about T-Mobile’s exclusive Android device, which is also the first Android device to hit the market.

Well, our buds over at Engadget have gotten word that the device will be officially announced on September 23rd at a T-Mobile event.

There is no saying as to what the device will actually be, but we do know that this will be a truly monumental event as it will be the first time an open-source cellphone has gone public. We will keep you updated.

Via: Engadget

Now you can have faster and better access to Google browsing with the new Google Mobile App launched for Blackberry. It comes with a free download option and allows you to perform searches made in Google easier. With this application, the earlier tedious wait for a browser to load is over.

This faster Google search application also comes with options of Search History which allows you to access and edit your previous search keywords/ queries in a more organized manner. Also it lets you to get your queries complete with fewer requirements for typing them out.

At the same time this App also gives you a better access to the products and web-based services of Google. What more? With this, you get direct link to the Google Apps support like Google Apps Calendar, documents and Spreadsheets as well. Moreover, with the Update alerts, downloading and updating newer versions of Google mobile applications is just a click away. So, happy browsing!

According to Reuters, T-Mobile will be ready to launch it’s Android G1 phone on September 23rd. Well actually that might not happen since Reuters’ unnamed sources mentioned something about a joint T-Mobile and Google announcement in New York City.

If it’s not the G1 what else could it be? What else does T-Mobile and Google have in common? With no official comments from either T-Mobile or Google, we’ll just have to wait and see.

People have been saying the HTC Dream will be available for presale starting with September 17th and later on available in stores. Now other people are saying that T-Mobile has scheduled press conferences for October 23rd to fully launch the Dream aka the G1. Well who are we to trust? Is the phone ready or not? Will we see it this September or not? Sure we’ve seen it in photos so far, but I am talking about regular full scale, official release.

We’ll definitely keep you posted!

By now the HTC Dream coming from T-Mobile is a certainty. Everyone is getting ready for a big release and more importantly for a great device. We’ve seen lots of leaked pictures but today we have some good quality pictures on our hands. After all you’d have to see it in detail to be convinced this is a device worth waiting for.
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Google is going to give Apple a run for its money. Like Apple’s App Store for the iPhone 3G and the iPhone touch, Google is going to have an Android Market which will be very similar. Future owners of Android devices will be able to purchase, download and install various applications from the Android Market.

T-Mobile is going to bring us the HTC Dream, the first Android cell phone but more are going to follow in 2009. That means the Android Market is going to have a guaranteed success and it might surpass in downloads the Apple App Store.

We don’t know any official dates for now but since the announcement has already been made we should assume things are going to be up and running soon.

HTC’s first Android device, the Dream has been widely discussed these last couple of weeks. While we’re still waiting to see if a September release will be possible, we got more pictures and details of the upcoming device.

What do you think about the image above? Does it look real enough to you? Is it extremely photoshopped? We sure need more details than that.

But there are rumored pricing options for the HTC Dream. A new customer choosing a 2 year contract will get the phone for $199.99. A new customer choosing a 1 year contract will pay $249.99. A full upgrade with a 2 year contract will cost $217.99 while a 1 year contract will cost $267.99. A partial upgrade will get you the handset for $367.99.

If you pre-order a full upgrade with a 2 year contract you will pay $167.99 while a pre-order with only 1 year will cost you $217.99. A pre-order with a partial upgrade gets you the phone for $317.99. If you want to pay the full $399 you will get the phone without a contract.

But these are just rumors…

On Monday, Google updated the Android SDK to version 0.9, nearing ever closer to the final 1.0 version.  Android 0.9 includes several changes:

Removal of the Bluetooth API
Removal of the GTalkService protocol
New Home Screen
Alarm Clock, Calculator, Camera, Music player, Picture viewer, and messaging

Keep in mind, this still isn’t the final version of the SDK so when phones running Android finally come out, code produced using the 0.9 SDK might not be recognized by the 1.0 OS.

However, Android developer Dan Morril posted on his blog that the platform is now pretty stable and no major changes are expected when 1.0 comes out.

Developers interested in the Android platform can download the new SDK here.

Finally, and might I say unexpectedly, the day when a T-Mobile’s official would confirm its first Android device has arrived.

Not exactly a gPhone, but certainly an iPhone competitor, T-Mobile’s Android handset has been discussed all over the internet lately. But now we have something real, an official statement and not just rumors. (more…)

Here’s the kind of news I foresaw a few days ago while watching the rumored HTC’s Android powered Dream video. Only that I wasn’t expecting it to arrive so soon. It appears that T-Mobile will start presales for the Dream on September 17th and open sales on September 24th. Named conveniently the G1, I guess Google1 was to long, the Dream will be priced $150 or $399. (more…)

Some people say this is the HTC Android device we’ve been talking about. Some say it isn’t. In any case the phone in this blurry image is the HTC Dream.
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Google wants a piece of the iPhone 3G business and they will get one. For now their Google Translate application is available from Google, just go to translate.google.com from your phone and get it for free.

With Google Translate you will be able to translate websites, blogs and phrases to and from English in 24 languages for now. The application is optimized for speed and it will certainly prove useful when you’re traveling. Sure the application comes for free but you will have to pay various roaming and data charges when accessing it.

The Guys over at Sprint have some financial problems to say the least. We’ve seen them sell a large number of their towers a few weeks ago and we’ve heard rumors about Sprint selling Nextel.

It appears now that Google is interested in a Sprint acquisition. The rumor has been around the block last year too but it appears that now Google has a special interest in Sprint’s WiMAX network now which they would surely use to launch the first Android devices.

For now we don’t have any Android devices and no official news around the matter. Are we to see Google’s XOHM soon?

This year is a rather poor year for Android. Fans, developers, manufacturers and carriers have been waiting for Android devices to be ready this year but due to various problems that hasn’t happened yet. Most smartphone makers have postponed any Android devices to 2009 except for HTC and maybe T-Mobile.
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Word around the street is that Google’s Android and Nokia’s Symbian are going to merge. Merge into what may I ask? Why would Nokia, kings of the cell phones business so far, operating handsets on their own Symbian OS which is going open by the way, want to mingle with Google’s Android, an OS we have talked much about without actually getting nothing good in return. There are millions of Symbian devices working out there while there’s a maybe Android phone or device for later this year.
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People are talking about a gPhone again. Like we don’t know this isn’t a phone we’re going to see this year. We’re less likely to see an Android powered smartphone this year at all, but that might still happen. As for the gPhone thing…

Today Larry Page and Sergei Brin, the founders of Google together with CEO Eric Schmidt made various statements suggesting a future gPhone.

Hollywood Reporter writer Dan Cox said regarding their statements:

The trio of Google execs also used the opportunity to talk about the inroads the company is making with its own branded mobile phone as a replacement for the iPhone.

That’s not enough at all to make us think that the gPhone is actually going to be launched soon. But if we add to these statements the rumor that San Francisco based Ammunition Design Group is designing the gPhone we might have something here.

Ammunition Design Group has worked on various devices like Palm, Hewlett-Packard, Dell Computer, Logitech and Sprint (the handset in the picture) so they know what they are doing. And in case it matters, the founder, Robert Brunner, was previously the director of Industrial Design at Apple Computer until 1997.

So are we going to be in for a surprise? An iPhone like gPhone? That should be some competition, with Google controlling the internet and the news flow. I wonder who would eventually win.