The Androids are Invading the Smart Phone Market Near You

Are you amazed at all the smart phone choices, calling plans, and announcements when it comes to iPhones, Google Phones, Droid Phones, Blackberries, and clones? If so, you can join the club. We’ve been busy studying these things since they were on the drawing boards, and it’s hard to keep up with even spending 2-hours a day studying all the new happenings in the industry and all the reviews out there. In the end however, it is not the branding, marketing, or advertising which will determine the winners and losers in the market rather it’s you; the consumer, customer, and user.

Recently, a personal tech guru of the smart phone technology space noted in his weekly column some interesting insights into just how the smart phone market was heating up in 2010. In his article Michael Martin wrote a piece; “A Veritable Army of Androids Coming this Year,” as we was discussing how HTC and other companies were going to mass produce Google Nexus One like clones running the Google operating system, all with similar features and a $100s of dollars less than Apples 3GS iPhone of Google’s own Nexus One.

Michael Martin noted that we could see at least a 100 (that’s right 100, and he even listed the names of these smart phone models in his article) “android phone choices worldwide scheduled to be made available in 2010.” Amazing, so here comes the invasion of the Androids, wow – and although things are about to get even more complicated, at least all the prices will be coming down now.

The Android Phone

by Anna
T-Mobile G1 Android Phone

Google and T-Mobile have teamed up to create an entire new breed of cell phone.

The T-Mobile G1 is the world’s first Android Phone.

Its known as the the Android Phone, T-Mobile G1 Android, the G1 Phone, or (more informally) the Google Phone.

The G1 Android Phone integrates fully with your Google accounts. Here are a few of the features and capabilities of this new cell phone:

• The Android Phone Allows you to copy URLs and share them with friends via a chat line, using a simple touch-screen interface.
• An Android phone allows you to browse the Internet just as you would on a normal computer.
• The Android allows one to run several applications at the same time, on one phone. You can switch between applications, and you can also be notified when something new occurs on one of those applications.
• The Google Android phone allows you to chat and share photos on applications such as Yahoo Messenger, Google, Talk, etc.

The following Google applications can be accessed and used directly by the Android Phone:

Gmail
Contacts
Google Maps
YouTube
Calendar
IM (Instant Message)

All of these Google applications will be available to you with a single longon – and they will be automatically synchronized with the web. What that means is that any change you make in one of your Google accounts from your phone will also show up the next time you log on from any other computer.

For example, when you are out and about with your phone and you meet a new contact, you might want to save their contact information. All you do is save it into your Google Contacts on your Android phone. That information will be available to you online, in your Gmail account, and in any other applicable Google account, accessible by any computer in the world.

Any information you save on your phone in this way will appear on your computer as well – and vice versa.

If you lose or break your phone, your data will still be there waiting for you on your Google account, which you can access from anywhere in the world. And there is no need to worry about your information being stolen, as its password-protected.

Here is another example of the a use of a Google Android phone. Once you have a contact address saved into your Google account, you can easily find that location on a map – using Google Maps, of course. And what’s more, you can access street level events in any area where this is available.

This makes it a breeze to get directions to a new location! Simply find your contact on a a map with a couple of clicks, and use a street-level view to find your way if needed!

Another example of the use of the Android phone is the integration of the cell phone with your Google Calender. Any event you save on your Google calender will be available to you on your phone, wherever you are. So you can access your schedule easily, on the go and from anywhere, as long as you have your phone with you.

No more schedule books! And you can probably say goodbye to those tiny notebooks and pads of paper you carry around to save your information.

What’s more, once you save information on your Google Android phone, there’s no need to transfer it over after you get home. Its all there, safely stored on your Google account, for ready access whenever you need it.

You can find out more information at What is a Google Android Phone? and Mobile Products on the Google Android Phone.