As mentioned earlier, the RIM [RIMM] BlackBerry Storm was scheduled for release today, and it certainly did, amidst a flurry of “you-just-gotta-have-it” TV and radio commercials. Although the product has been in the pipeline as a competitor to Apple’s [AAPL] iPhone 3G for several months, it did not seem to have the kind of public [...]
GPhone
Remember when the news about the T-Mobile [DT] G1 smartphone came out, and the news about the updated (first “official” 1.0) Google [GOOG] Android SDK? Well, today is the official release date of the G1 to the public. A lot of reporters and analysts have already said their piece about the G1, so now it’s [...]
After a fairly long delay, the first major publicly available implementation of Google’s [GOOG] Android SDK on a phone (the GPhone format) is finally unveiled as T-Mobile’s [DT] G1, also known as the HTC Dream. In addition to the G1 itself, there’s also the Android Market, a software depot very similar to Apple’s [AAPL] App [...]
Prelude More than a few intrepid adventurers out there have noticed my comments for one of Dan Frommer’s posts at SAI about the Android SDK and the proposal for the Open Handset Alliance (OHA) “GPhone” mobile phone platform for which the SDK can be used to create applications. Many of you have fired me E-mails [...]
