HTC Dream with Android
T-Mobile will launch its first wireless phone powered by Google’s Android software system in New York tomorrow.
However, the Google phone, which is manufactured by HTC and called ‘Dream,’ won’t go on sale until next month in the United States or possibly even later. Expect it in China well into next year even though it is actually manufactured here.
No price has been put on it but most guesses are around $200 on a scheme and there are reports that more than 600,000 units will be ready for the first wave.
Basically the Android phone is positioned to compete with Apple’s iPhone and Research In Motion’s BlackBerry.
The problem is sex appeal. It appears it is is bigger and clunkier than iPhone and has a hidden keyboard. It has little chance of pushing iPhone to one side. And Research in Motion is a business phone and it takes a lot of shoving to get American corporations to scrap one system and adopt another.
Google has not had many duds but this may be one of them. It may never get to be on sale in China, no matter what network it operates on.
On the other hand it has almost certainly been made at Kang-Ciao Industrial Park, Nanhui District, Shanghai and suggestions are the retail price might be $200 may make it an attractive buy. Possibly. Perhaps
Souce: China View
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