Google's answer to the iPhone

The first Android-powered phone aims to take market share from Apple and boost Google's search ad revenue.

Well, it’s official, the so-called Google-phone is coming to T-Mobile stores nationwide starting Oct.22nd

Here is what it is. The phone is actually isn’t manufactured by Google’s going to be made by a company called HTC, but it does run on an operating system that was developed by Google called Engerroom. This is an open operating system which means that it makes very easy for developer secret all sorts of mobile applications for the device.

It’s called G1, not just the Google phone any more, and it is going to sell for 179 dollars through T-Mobile, with the 2-year service plan, of course. It’s a smart phone, it’s, it’s also got a touch screen, whether plug keyboard for typing, and it’s going to have bilten wire file, builten GPS, a lot of this in the features that is becoming pretty standard smart phones these days. But the real question on everybody’s minds here is how does the G1 stock up to be iphone?

A lot of comparisons are already being made between the two, and although they have a lot of common, they also have a lot of differences. For example, Google’s device G1 is an open platform and applications are going to be very easy for developers to get. To consumers, they do not have to go to any kind of review process with Google was the Iphone developers have to firstly approved by Apple to get their applications out there. Apple also takes a cut of all the revenues where Google does not, with its applications.

But beyond the similarities and differences, their, their strategies are not the same here. Em, Apple’s really been pushing this one device Iphone was Google’s pushing a platform which it hopes to go around the cross, thousands of different devices across multiple carriers and multiple markets. Google’s real goal here is to drive traffic on mobile devices. They want people using the web on their cell phones, so automatically, if the iphone succeeds, or if other smart phone succeeds, that’s good for Google’s business too. So is this going to be the next iphone killer? Well, probably not, but does that really matter to Google’s overall strategy? Maybe not.