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Google is doing all that it can to sell its Android. With very less takers in the mobile market, it surely needs some apps that are impressive to beat its giant competitors like Symbian and Windows Mobile. The recent Google Earth for Android 2.1 on Nexus One is just what Google wanted.

The new Nexus One is a power packed beauty with 1GHz processor, Android 2.1 and advanced 3D graphics card. The Nexus is also thin and user friendly comparing other android mobile models.

Google claims that its Google Earth for Android is the fastest mobile version of Google Earth with an 800 x 480 screen. Google Earth for Android would contain road layers, road labels on top of satellite imagery very much like the desktop version of Google Earth.

Voice Recognition
Google have also integrated the Android voice recognition feature into Google Earth so you can get the location of a prominent place by just speaking to the mobile. Isn’t that a cool feature? But is it as simple as it sounds? One has to check it out first hand to comment on this.

Other common features on Google Earth are browsing photos, places and local businesses. Clicking on an icon can let you see videos, photos and info about places around the world.

Google Earth will also be available to all other devices using Android 2.1 or later.

T-Mobile’s G1 or more popularly called the Google phone would be the first Android based handset available in the market. The phone manufactured by HTC has all the features of a smartphone but would it be as reliable as a Windows Mobile or a Symbian operating system?

On a first look at the HTC G1, you would think it is similar to the Nokia’s Internet Tablet devices or HTC’s own HTC Touch Diamond or the Touch Pro. The phone is also very different from an iPhone making it incomparable and one that caters to a completely different audience. Well, it’s at least 100 times better than a iPhone.

QWERTY Keyboard: With its wide, simple and elegant keyboards, they are one of the most comfortable QWERTY keys available on a mobile market today. This is great while composing emails, surfing the web, sending messages or while chatting.

3G and EDGE: The HTC G1 has a built-in support for 3g and EDGE networks which T-Mobile supports enabling high-speed data connection for surfing and downloads.

Communication: The HTC G1 has a rich HTML e-mail client which can synchronize your e-mail messages, your calendar schedules and contact information. The phone also supports POP3 or IMAP.

Online Chat: You can now be connected with your Google Talk™, Yahoo! Messenger ®, Windows Live Messenger and AOL® as T-Mobile supports these in U.S.

Music: The Google Phone for T-Mobile has a pre-loaded application from Amazon with which one can download their favorite DRM-free 6 million MP3 tracks. However, downloading music from Amazon MP3 would require a Wi-Fi connection.

Android Market: The new Android open source operating system has its own feature called the Android Market which has a whole load of applications and services from worldwide developers.

ShopSavvy: Android application to help you do a comparative shopping. Users can scan the UPC code of a product with their Google Phone’s camera during shopping and compare product prices from online merchants with the nearby local store.

Ecorio: Another application on the Android phone developed to assist users to organize and track their daily travels and even check their carbon footprints. The Ecorio also helps users find their impact on environment by calculating the number of steps they take each day.

BreadCrumbz: With BreadCrumbz you can create a visual mapping path using photos.

Highlights

• 3.2-inch TFT-LCD flat touch-sensitive screen with HVGA (320 X 480 pixel) resolution.
• Full 5-row QWERTY keyboard.
• One-click Google Search™.
• Customizable Home screen with instant Email, text message and IM notifications.
• Instant access to mobile Internet services (Gmail™, YouTube™, Google Maps™, Google Talk™, Google Calendar™).
• High-speed 3.5G network connection.
• Wi-Fi technology with seamless transition to open networks.
• Android Market™ with access to variety of software and media downloads. (some fees may apply)
  3.2 megapixel color camera with auto focus.
• microSD™ (SD 2.0 compatible) expansion slot for all your storage needs.

Google has introduced Gmail for its first Android-powered phone, T-Mobile G1. Gmail for Android has more to offer than for Symbian and Windows Mobile.

Gmail for Android auto updates new e-mail messages as it arrives and helps create or find messages faster.

Some of the key features of Gmail on Android are:

Push email: Gmail on Android auto refreshes its mail box and hence you do not need to refresh or log in again to check new email arrivals

Notifications: Gmail for Android can notify you whenever a new email arrives on the status bar itself similar to a new SMS alert. Hence you would be aware of any new messages when it arrives.

Address Autocomplete: Similar to the normal Gmail on your desktop, Gmail on Android also lets you enter long email addresses using just a few keystrokes.

View Attachments: Android also helps open email attachments like photos, Microsoft Word™ documents, MP3s and PDF files by just clicking on them.

T-Mobile G1, also called the Google cell phone is the worlds first cell phone with an Android open-source operating system. The phone has been developed with partnership with HTC, Google and the Open Handset Alliance.

Google is now looking at cashing in using the young iPhone users. Ads on iPhone does not look like a dumb concept though with more than 10 million iPhones already sold.

With its good Samaritan looks, Google may look deceptive as a social non-profit organization. It is in turn one of the highest profit making companies online having a mainstay in every top online revenue channel.

Reports are that Google would be advertising on iPhones. With Google entering the iPhone advertising market, advertisers will be able to create an iPhone ad group where they can create ads for iPhone in their regular search campaign. Google may not be providing this feature for its Android, Google’s cellphone immediately. However, Google will certainly have Android in mind while developing the iPhone ad feature.