The battle rages on between the technologies of the Apple iPhone and Google’s Android platform. Google’s first android competitor to the Apple iPhone was the T-Mobile G1, which was released last year. The newest Android platform phone encompassed in the HTC Magic is HTC in partnership with Vodafone. With the hype coming from the release of this newest of Google Android platform applications, it should not be long before it is offered worldwide and posing even stiffer competition for the Apple iPhone.

Both the Apple iPhone and the Google HTC Magic are basically hand-held computers, and both can take applications from third party providers and download them. In focusing on the HTC Magic, it offers up the Google characteristics of email, maps, search, and YouTube, as well as a web-kit browser that is optimized by Android. All of this is offered under the Google umbrella. This advanced Google Android platform technology is opening doors to some major advancement for the development of other, more advanced applications.

Although many see Google’s endeavors into the smart phone market as a means for Google to further expand into totally dominating the industry, Google sees it as offering the public what they want. What Google feels the public wants is a simple means for quick access to the web through a device that individuals already always carry with them, which is the phone.

Other features of the handset of the HTC Magic that carries the Android platform include the handsets being dressed for success with a 3.2 inch touch screen display, buttons for navigating, and a trackball. The applications available with the Android platform are setting Google apart in the smart phone and PDA markets.

Those individuals that are social butterflies will the Android platform of the HTC Magic phone, due to the fact that Google constantly is running in the background for quick and easy access to others and quick relaying of information if desired. The Android platform is currently available on the T-Mobile G1, which was the start of it, while Vodafone has picked up the newest HTC Magic name. Upcoming gPhones are bringing the Android platform on board, and an abundance of carriers are supporting the endeavor.

Although the HTC Magic Vodafone first began making the Google Android platform available in their phones starting in the UK, and will move on to areas of Europe, it is uncertain which phone manufacturer and mobile service carrier will be the first to take up this stage of the Google Android revolution. Whichever and whomever it is, they will be a step ahead of the competition when offering the innovative technology provided through the Google Android platform.

The battle between the iPhone and the gPhone is bound to continue for years, but Apple may have a lot to worry about when it comes to Google and their advancing technologies within the Android platform. An ever increasing number of service providers want the phones that are backed by the Google Android Platform. If it is true that Google is offering what the people want, then the smartest service providers will get on board with Google Android.