The Google Phone Nexus One was presented. It is only available in the USA for the moment. Without contract the price is at $529.-.
Android 2.0 with Google Maps Navigation
Google presented their new mobile phone with Android 2.0 and with a killer apllication Google Maps Navigation. The application is free, which was bad news for GPS application companies like TomTom.
It has following features:
Search for business if you don’t know the address.
Speak your navigation.
See traffic conditions with online screen indicators.
Search for business along the route.
Sateellite view.
Street view.
Less Expensive Handsets May Carry Google Cell Phone
With the downturn in the economy not looking to improve anytime soon, Google is looking to expand its market of smart phones by utilizing less expensive handsets.
The Google Android system has been marketed in the T-Mobile G1, and is said to be possibly taken into the Vodafone, Sciphone, and HTC in the very near future. The Android is gaining popularity across the globe, and Google can only improve their system from here.
The brand handset mobile phones of Sony Ericsson and HTC are in the works of adding Android phone models to their lines. The high-end models are said to be released first, but then plan to broaden the market by releasing some cheaper Android versions as well. This will offer an arena of Android users that otherwise would not purchase the high end versions of the Google platform.
HTC is said to be planning release of one or more Google Androids by the summer of 2009. Sony Ericsson is trying simply to stay competitive within the mobile phone industry and a platform like the Android is something that they feel is necessary to offer the public. They too plan to start at the high end of the models they release and also work toward offering the Android in a form to reach a broader market. A summer, 2009 target is in the works for Sony Ericsson as well.