Amol Sharma at The Wall Street Journal published an analysis of T-Mobile’s Android phone strategy and overall plan to differentiate itself from the pack of massive American cell-phone companies.
[...] It is likely that T-Mobile will be the first U.S. carrier to bring a Google-powered cellphone to market. The two sides have been working together [...]

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Sergey Brin and Steve Horowitz discuss the availability of the SDK, that it will be open source in the future, and demo applications on the Android platform.
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The “GPhones” shown in the demo vid come in smartphone and touch-screen varieties. They also utilize 3G data speeds which offer quicker load times and [...]

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UBS analyst Benjamin Schachter relays word from his colleague in Taiwan, fellow UBS analyst Arthur Hseih, that Google will be shipping approximately 50,000 GPhones on HTC hardware by the end of the year. The only catch is that these are apparently reserved for software developers.
“These initial phones are not going to be for sale,” Benjamin [...]

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