The first mobile phone powered by Google was launched today, ready to do battle with Apple’s iPhone for the top spot on tech addicts' Christmas gift lists.
The long-awaited smartphone, unassumingly dubbed the T-Mobile G1, was revealed at a press conference in New York this afternoon. Amid the kind of whooping and cheering that usually accompanies the launch of new Apple products, Google revealed the first handset to run on ‘Android', the search giant’s operating system for mobile phones.
It goes on sale in the US next month, and is expected to arrive in British stores by early November.
The arrival of Android signals the opening round of a battle between Google and rivals including Apple, Microsoft and Nokia to create the software that powers the next generation of internet-enabled mobile phones.
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