IntoMobile Will Google's Android Kill the iPhone?

HTC recently announced that it is all set to commercially launch the first smartphone running Google’s much-awaited Android platform on T-Mobile USA’s network. The product, which might be called the HTC G1 or HTC Dream, is expected to be available by Christmas to cash-in on the shopping season.

The device will then be launched in other global markets gradually. Google also publicly released the new Android SDK (Software Development Kit) to software developers. The last one was made available only to contest winners which made some developers feel less than appreciated. According to experts, the new SDK comes with a brand new interface that addresses a lot of the problems older versions had — it’s a lot simpler, and most things make sense, or are easy to figure out.

If you are really interested in trying out the device before buying your own, download the SDK, unzip the file into a directory on your computer, open the ‘Tools’ directory and double-click on the ‘emulator.exe’ application. A simulator will open up that lets you play with the operating system — mind you, there’s not a whole lot you can do with it until there is some kind of way to find and install applications from some sort of application directory. According to news reports, the previous version was filled with usability problems that made the device pretty much useless. So does the launch of Android-based devices spell doom for Apple’s iPhone? Over the past few years, Apple has launched millions of iPhones and it still continues to be a major hit among smartphone buyers – similar to what iPod was among digital music player buyers.

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