The greatest threat to Apple's iPhone, the G1 will be made available through T-Mobile this November. It looks as clunky as the Amazon Kindle (HTC designed it), so Apple won't have to worry about losing their style-concious customers, but it does have a slideout keyboard. The G1 run on Asteroid, the new mobile OS from Google. It looks more customiseable than the iPhone, you can move the desktop widgets around and place them where you want to, just like on a regular PC. It also has both full touch-screen functionality, a trackball for one-handed navigation, plus access to mobile web applications like Google Maps Street View, Gmail, YouTube, etc. The key features are "Wi-Fi, 3G (HSDPA), multimedia messaging, email support (Gmail as well as other POP3 and IMAP email services), instant messaging (with Google Talk as an option of course), a full HTML browser, GPS functionality, a 3-megapixel camera(!), the ability to multitask(!), a music player, Bluetooth and quad-band GSM support".
A good thing is that it will support Google Maps Street View, which lets you explore cities at the street-level. It will also have a built-in compass on the phone and allow you to view locations and navigate 360 degrees by moving the phone around. There's also the Android Market, which is an app store similar to the one on iTunes.
The G1 is free on T-Mobile tarriffs of £40 and above.
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