Howdy fellow geeks. It’s been sometime since we had some updates. Well the summer’s over and we’re back on track. And guess what, we got some great updates lined up just for you.

Here’s the biggest one to hit the market. We’ve all heard rumours of Google’s mobile operating system launching soon. We’ve also heard of mobile manufacturers lining up to create the hardware for it, but here’s the real deal.

T-mobile has raced the rest to unveil the first handset to sport Google’s operating system with HTC’s hardware. Here’s the breakdown…

The Hardware

The phone is clad in premium plastic and has a rubberized finish with

Dimensions of 117 x 55.7x 17.1 m, that means 17.1 thickness

Weight : 158g.

Screen: 3.2 inch touch screen, 65K colours supporting hand recognition, trackball, and auto rotate

Camera : 3.15MPX

Keyboard: Full QWERTY keyboard

Data support : WLan, 3G, EDGE, Bluetooth, miniUSB

Network :  Quadband and 3G Networks

Audio : works only through the miniUSB

GPS : Yes

The Software

Google’s Android was built  to introduce an alternative mobile platform to rival the iPhone and its touch screen interface. The demos shows the simplicity of the menu options, finger friendly icons and iPhone like momentum animations.

The home screen consists of a Clock display occupying the main part of the screen and a list of icons for launching applications resides below. Running along the top of the screen is the status notifications bar, which can be dragged up and down when needed – new emails, missed calls and download progress are all listed here. At the bottom, a pop-up menu bar can be launched with finger buttons for launching further applications.

The webpages, renders in full, similar to the iPhone. Zooming in and out is either controlled by a magnifying glass at the bottom of the screen or through the zoom in and out controls. Unfortunately the Android, still doesnt support multi touch, but that’s where the full QWERTY keyboard comes in and it works like a charm.

Android supports push email on Gmail accounts, so you’ll be updated constantly when a new message arrives. But that’s not all. It also synchronizes with your Google calender and contacts, so you don’t have to dock it to your machine to update them like the iPhone. It also includes, Google talk and maps and ofcourse a YouTube application.

The Android G1 will hit the markets within the next few months and some people have already got their hands on it. Check out the demos below!

Android User Inter phrase

Android Browser

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