G1 News

Taiwanese manufacturer HTC was happy to announce that over a million of their Android-powered Magic handset have been shipped in 2009, since their recent April release. HTC Chief Peter Chou was jubilant at the announcement, and also announced plans to tackle the mid-range market with future handsets.

If they are able to crack the mobile game at the high end price point, in the face of super smartphones like the Nokia N97, iPhone 3GS and Palm Pre, common sense dictates that even further success can be achieved with decent phones on lower tiers.

The HTC Magic has just seen a US launch under the name myTouch3G with T-Mobile,  making this global milestone without American sales even more impressive.

It also shows that market leading design and innovative features can buck any downward trends…

Earth shattering news in the mobile world as Nokia seems to be embracing Google’s Android operating system as the backbone for a new handset!

With the Nokia World annual conference looming in September, rumours are rife that the device will be unveiled at some point during the event. With the current Symbian interface being structurally sound but looking slightly archaic in the face of slick mobiles like the iPhone and Samsung Jet, Android is the perfect platform to launch both a visually arresting interface as well as a one which will offer a smooth online experience for browsing and sending mail.

The smartphone market has been heavily competitive in recent months, with many manufacturers targeting this lucrative sector as mid-range sales dwindle. With Nokia losing ground to the current generation of ‘casual’ smartphones from Samsung and Apple, a device combining the brand strength of the Finnish phone maker with a great user experience could reverse current fortunes.

The Nokia N97 has been a success, yet many feel it wasn’t a big enough step forward. This open source experiment seems set to show exactly what Nokia can do!

UPDATE: Nokia is pretty adamant that this is not true.

“There is no truth to this story whatsoever. It is a well known fact that Symbian is our platform of choice for smartphones.”

We can but dream…but the fact that Android is a direct competitor to the open source Symbian platform should really have started alarm bells ringing!

Source: Daily Telegraph

The battle for touchscreen supremacy rages on, and with the Nokia 5800 throwing it’s plectrum covered hat into the ring only yesterday, this fight just got sexy!

Techradar goes into insane detail, exploring in great depth each phone’s respective strengths. The lack of video playback on the G1 really stuck in their throat, but with a slick new operating system and whizzy internet, the phone is definitely defending it’s corner well…

The T-Mobile G1 seems a little underpowered when lined up with the iPhone 3G and 5800 Xpressmusic, but arguably they are targeting pretty different markets, but with the crazy free spirit of Android, we hope the developers will create a software based solution to keep it in the game.