Your new best friend, an Android

When Google gets in the mobile game, expect the bar to be raised. You’ll be hearing a lot about their new Android OS and the hardware that will run it.  The Telegraph of London has this about an HTC phone set to run the ‘Droid:

It is thought the phone will go on sale in the UK early next month, and HTC has said that it expects to ship around 600,000 to 700,000 units of the Dream by the end of this year.

Android, the Google-backed operating system that will run on the device, is designed to bring the desktop computing experience to mobile devices, by allowing people to surf the internet and carry out everyday tasks on the go.

It will provide easy access to Google’s web-based email service, Gmail, as well as a host of other Google products, including Docs, its productivity suite, and Google Maps.

The Dream is expected to contain a GPS chip, allowing it to double as a mobile sat-nav, and Google may also provide additional tools for the device to help push location-specific information to the phone’s owner, such as weather forecasts, travel updates and restaurant recommendations. - telegraph.co.uk

      

Update on September 18, 2008 by Frank@OBOW

Cllick on the photo for news about the US release on September 23…

 

And more about the Google phone from Engadget.