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Review: The Google phone

30 March 2009

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The G1 running Google’s Android operating system. Image from Hexus

We spoke with Ruslan Kogan on Friday about delays to his plan of releasing a mobile powered by Google’s Android operating system in Australia.   HTC Corporation are still the only manufacturer to release a smartphone running Android, with their HTC Dream (pictured above and usually just called the G1) unit appearing in the US in October last year. It is also now available in Australia as well as a few other countries in our region.

Peter Marks, technology editor for ABC Radio National Breakfast, spoke with Fran Kelly about the G1 smartphone.  You can listen to his review via the MP3 link at the top of this post.

HTC unveiled their next handset running Android, HTC Magic, at the recent Mobile World Congress. The G2 will be available in April in parts of Europe with the rest of us to follow at some point this year.  And we should see some more phones or personal media devices coming out with the operating system very soon as well.