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  • Google finds iPhone under the Christmas tree

    On Christmas Day thousands of people opened up boxes with something cool and functional inside and wasted no time logging onto Google.com through their brand new iPhones.

  • HTC Dream Aussie launch: Photos

    The long-awaited launch of the HTC Dream in Australia took place this morning amongst sunny skies and geeky enthusiasm for apps, apps and more apps.

  • Google's Android gets app market

    Google on Thursday in the US announced Android Market, an online center similar to the iPhone application store that will let people find, buy, download, and rate software and other content for mobile phones equipped with the open source operating system.

  • Google Android's new battleground: Developers

    Google executives have a lot of work ahead of them as they court application developers skeptical of the search king's new open software platform for mobile devices.

  • Coders win from Android Market

    Google officially opened its Android Market Wednesday in the US and promised that beginning next year, programmers would get the lion's share of revenue from applications sold on the download site for the company's mobile phone operating system.

Blogs (2)

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Cash cow in a BigTinCan?

    Around one third of Australia's telcos have shut their doors over time, but that isn't stopping new ventures hoping to chip away at carriers' mobile call bonanza. By fighting carriers at the smartphone rather than the home phone, could the latest two contenders be onto something big?

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Telstra's iPhone-free parallel universe

    Given that the new iPhone 3G S is rated at up to 7.2Mbps, you'd think Telstra would be all over it as a potential show pony for Next G's purported high-speed performance. Yet the opposite seems to be true.

Features and Case Studies (8)

  • Is there life in Google's Android?

    Given the hype around anything with a single-letter prefix m-commerce, e-learning, iPhone last year's speculation over a Google "gPhone" sent the blogosphere into overdrive. The Android mobile phone platform that Google actually launched, however, took things in quite a different direction.

  • Q&A: Google's Alan Noble on the future Web

    Alan Noble is the engineering and site director for Google Australia. ZDNet.com.au sat down with him to find out about the future of Web, and what Google really thinks about Microsoft's move into online applications.

  • Google's Android head on the iPhone, Linux and the Dream

    Google's Andy Rubin talks nuts and bolts about the Linux-based phone software, the lessons of Sidekick, and the beauty of the iPhone.

  • Security showdown: iPhone vs Google Android

    Google's recent announcement of Android has sparked a debate over whether the mobile Linux platform will prove more secure than Apple's proprietary iPhone.

  • Can Google break Microsoft's enterprise chokehold?

    A tie-up with Saleforce.com sees Google pushing even further into Microsoft's businesss applications territory

Reviews (8)

  • Samsung Galaxy Icon

    While we like the design, Samsung needs to do more with the software. Without customisation, Android's absent features are glaringly obvious.

  • HTC Dream

    We're not in love with the design and would have liked some additional features; however, the Google Android platform has the potential to make smartphones more personal and powerful.

  • HTC Magic

    Parts of the phone are as the name suggests, magic, but the absence of outstanding multimedia jeopardises the success of this latest Android.

  • Samsung Preston Icon

    The Preston has the look of a better handset, but poor call quality spoils an otherwise well-performing budget-priced touchscreen phone.

  • Palm Pre

    With webOS, Palm goes past matching its competitors and offers something more. The Pre might not be a home run, but it is an indication of good things to come.

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