news report 3

Mikayla Chiarello
News Report 3
9/22/2008

Tuesday phone debut is first salvo in Android war
By Stephen Shankland
cnet news
9/20/2008
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10046666-94.html?tag=newsLeadStoriesArea.0

This article was about the way cell phone technology changes and the way it will continue to change throughout the future. Some mobile phones already have access to the internet, but not all of them and there are currently a lot of limitations. Engineers hope to eliminate these limitations and bring easy internet access to all phones. This Tuesday T-Mobile will release its first phone powered by Google's Android operating system. The phone is called Dream and was designed and built by HTC. It will be on sale starting in October for $200. This could be very good for T-Mobile because by using Google it will most likely increase their sales, kind of like what the iPhone and Apple did for AT&T. Google will benefit because they say that people who have the internet on their cell phones use it much more and Google wants to be the company to give them their information. Google hopes to bring a lot to the table in for the cell phone industry. They want to bring more openness (like in PCs) to mobile phones, which has yet to be done because of certain limitations. Some rumored features of the new Dream phone include, full QWERTY keyboard, 3G touch screen, full HTML browser, GPS, access to all Google applications including Maps, YouTube, instant messaging, SMS texting email, 3megapixel camera, music player, video recorder/player and a memory card slot. I never had an iPhone or the LG dare, but if I had $200 to spend on a cell phone I would want to try this new mobile phone. I also think that Google’s influence will definitely help boost sales, but I don’t think the iPhone will have any worries because so many people love their iPhones and I’m sure they are designing some kind of new technology to push the competition further .After reading this article I’m really excited to find a friend or someone I know who is going to buy the phone so I can see and use it firsthand.