The upcoming HTC HD2 handset that’s due at T-Mobile in the US soon will apparently be have more onboard storage space and RAM than versions sold overseas. According to a leaked T-Mobile spec sheet of the device, the US-bound phone will have 1GB of fixed memory space and 576MB of RAM, compared to the current handset’s 512MB and 448MB, respectively. The existing HD2 is available in European and Asian markets only, though some users in Asia are reporting that a new software update has their phone reporting 576MB of RAM.

The HD2 is the first Windows Mobile handset with a capacitive, multi-touch screen. It will also be capable of supporting Windows Mobile 7 when it arrives. The device has a 4.3-inch LCD with 800×480 resolution. Processing power comes from a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. Rounding out the specs are a 5-megapixel camera, GPS and Wi-Fi, along with a microSDHC memory card slot and a 3.5mm headphone jack. Pricing and a release date for the US market have not been revealed, though it should ship in the early part of the year. [via MobileTechWorld]

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Microsoft accidentally published the Windows Mobile 6.5 SDK (software developers kit) on Friday but has since pulled it, the company said.

Developers discovered the SDK on Microsoft’s Download site. One, Joel Ivory Johnson, downloaded it and reports that it includes Widget tools and emulators for version 6.5.3, the next update to the OS.

He and another developer both had trouble using the SDK, indicating that it likely was not ready for release.

On Monday, a spokeswoman with Microsoft’s public relations agency confirmed that it had been posted inadvertently. “While the SDK was not announced or promoted, it was discovered and generated questions from the community,” she said. “To provide the best experience possible for Windows phone developers, the SDK will be reposted once final testing has been conducted.”

Microsoft could be planning to release the SDK next month at the Mobile World Congress.

The first phones running Windows Mobile 6.5 became available late last year. Many expect that Microsoft will introduce Windows Mobile 7 at the Mobile World Congress next month with expectations that phones will go on sale some time this year.

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Now the question is out of these four phones what one will be the best? Below you can see all the featured specs for each smartphone, I already have the Apple iPhone 3G and love the device to bits, but I really love the thought of having the BlackBerry Storm. We want your comments.

Apple iPhone 3G Featured Specs:

• Apple iPhone 3G Featured Specs:
• 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
• 3G Network HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100
• Same 3.5 inch Touchscreen (16M colors/320 x 480 pixels)
• Multi-touch input method
• Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
• Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
• Ambient light sensor
• Polyphonic & MP3 Ringtones
• Vibration
• Flush 3.5 mm headset jack
• Photocall and near enough unlimited phonebook entries and fields
• Call records (100 received, dialed and missed calls)
• 8 or 16GB built in memory versions
• GPRS
• EDGE
• 3G HSDPA
• WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
• Bluetooth v2.0 headset support only
• USB v2.0
• Mac OS X v10.4.10
• Email & SMS Messaging - Safari HTML Browser
• Downloadable games and applications
• 2 megapixel camera
• Built-in GPS receiver
• A-GPS function
• Google Maps
• iPod audio/video player
• PIM including calendar, to-do list
• TV output
• Photo browser/editor
• Voice memo
• Integrated handsfree
• Up to 300 hours standby time
• Up to 10 hours talk time
• 115.5 x 62.1 x 12.3 mm
• 133 grams

T-Mobile HTC G1 Featured Specs:

• 2G Network - GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
• 3G Network - HSDPA 2100
• American Model - HSDPA 2100 / 1700
• 3.2-inch TFT touchscreen display - 65K colors/320 x 480 pixels
• Handwriting recognition
• Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
• Full QWERTY keyboard and Trackball
• Vibration
• MP3, WAV, WMA and Polyphonic (40 channels) Ringtones
• Near enough unlimited entries and fields and photocall
• Near enough unlimited phonebook
• microSD (TransFlash) Card slot
• 192 MB RAM
• 256 MB ROM
• Qualcomm MSM7201A 528 Mhz processor
• EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps
• GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
• WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
• Bluetooth v2.0 (Only has headset support only)
• 3G HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps
• No 3.5mm jackplug
• miniUSB
• Google Android OS
• HTML Browser
• MMS, Email, SMS, Instant Messaging
• 3.2 MP Camera 2048×1536 pixels, autofocus
• Java MIDP 2.0
• MP3 player
• Voice memo
• GPS receiver
• Document viewer
• Digital compass
• Handsfree
• Up to 406 hours standby time
• Up to 5 hours 20 minutes talktime
• 117 x 55.7 x 17.1mm
• 158 grams

BlackBerry Bold 9000 Featured Specs:

• 2G Network - GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
• 3G Network - HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100
• Wireless email
• Organizer
• Browser
• Phone
• Camera (2.0 MP) - video, flash
• Video Recording
• BlackBerry® Maps
• Media Player
• Built-in GPS
• Wi-Fi® Support
• Corporate data access
• SMS
• MMS
• 3.5mm stereo headset capable
• Video format support: DivX 4, DivX 5/6 partially supported, XviD partially supported, H.263, H.264, WMV3
• Audio format support: .3gp, MP3, WMA9 (.wma/.asf), WMA9 Pro/WMA 10, MIDI, AMR-NB, Professional AAC/AAC+/eAAC+
• Trackball navigation
• Full QWERTY keyboard
• 65K colors - 480 x 320 pixels display
• MP3 & Polyphonic Ringtones
• Vibration
• microSD (TransFlash), microSDHC, up to 8 GB
• 128 MB flash memory plus 1 GB storage memory
• 624 MHz processor
• GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
• EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps
• Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP
• USB v2.0
• WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g
• 3G HSDPA, 3.6 Mbps
• SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
• BlackBerry OS
• HTML Browser
• Games
• BlackBerry maps
• Up to 310 hours standby time
• Up to 5 hours talk time
• 114 x 66 x 14 mm
• 133 grams

BlackBerry Storm Featured Specs:

• 2G Network - GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
• 3G Network, HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100
• 3.25-Inch TFT touchscreen - 65K colors/360 x 480 pixels
• Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
• MP3 & Polyphonic Ringtones
• Vibration
• 3.5 mm stereo headset jack
• 624 MHz CPU
• 128 MB RAM
• 1 GB memory plus microSDHC, microSD (TransFlash) up to 8 GB
• EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps
• 3G HSDPA
• GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
• Bluetooth v2.0
• USB v2.0
• WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g
• BlackBerry Operating System
• Instant Messaging, MMS, Email & SMS
• HTML Browser
• 3.2 MP Camera 2048×1536 pixels, flash, video and autofocus
• MP3,WMA,AAC+ Media player
• DivX, WMV, XviD, 3gp Video player
• BlackBerry maps
• A-GPS function
• DataViz document viewer – editor
• Built-in GPS
• Calculator, Voice dial, Voice memo, Built-in handsfree, Organizer
• Java
• 112.5 x 62.2 x 13.9 mm

As Switched On exemplified in the frenzy of mobile Ts and primary Gs last week, much of the attention focused on the involvement of Google and comparisons to the iPhone. Searching Google for “‘T-Mobile G1? Apple” yields over 6.7 million results on Google. Searching for “‘T-Mobile G1? HTC” yields only 3.4 million.

Given that the phone is being branded “T-Mobile G1 with Google,” the temptation is to say that HTC, which has long vowed to step into the white light from behind the white label, has failed to capitalize on one of the best branding opportunities in handset history. However, there would have been limits as to how much spotlight it could have stolen in the wake of media fascination with Google and one can have only so many brands listed in the name of a phone. Wireless carriers are among the biggest television advertisers, and Google is the biggest advertising powerhouse online. Together they will fund the G1 marketing push. The stakes were just too high for HTC to significantly advance its branding status with T-Mobile, which has used its carrier brand for such HTC handsets as the Dash, Wing and Shadow.

But there are more paradoxes in HTC’s first Android handset.

HTC has committed to Android as the operating system of choice for its future consumer handsets. Yet the hardware design of the G1 — with its PDA-like button layout and Leno-esque chin — falls short of the attractive, sleek designs such as the Touch Pro that the company has recently delivered in its Windows Mobile lineup. In addition, Android was supposed to facilitate greater diversity and differentiation for handset manufacturers and operators to tailor their own experience, but the Android experience feels generic at this point compared to the engaging TouchFLO interface HTC has built atop Windows Mobile, or even the less flashy shell that T-Mobile put on the Windows Mobile-based Shadow.

The G1, true to its name, is a first-generation handset and there is benefit to highlighting the well-known Google’s influence on this introductory device, but over time the focus needs to shift for Android to stand out from competitors and blend into the experiences that its partners want to create.

On the other hand, T-Mobile could hardly have played the timing of the Android card better, coming on the heels of some iPhone backlash. For while T-Mobile is the last U.S. carrier to introduce a handset with a large touch screen, it is the first to introduce a smartphone with those traits. In contrast, while Sprint had good success with the well-executed Instinct beating the iPhone 3G to market and certainly didn’t hesitate to compare it to the first-generation iPhone, the Instinct simply couldn’t conjure the platform war intrigue that Android carries with it.

Even better for T-Mobile, the G1 is essentially the launch pad for T-Mobile’s 3G network service whereas the first iPhone could not take advantage of AT&T’s HSPA network. As an exclusive, the G1 is the most important handset T-Mobile has ever launched and the carrier is gearing up for what it has described as its biggest marketing effort for a handset ever (which was also true for Sprint and the Instinct). However, depending on its exclusivity window for Android, the G1 will be more challenged to deliver for T-Mobile that prized benefit that the iPhone has delivered for AT&T — enticing competitors’ consumers to switch.

Google G1 cell phone will be available on October 22, 2008.  The first true iPhone competitor.  I am sold on it once my contract with AT&T is up next February.

Features that I will love:

• GoogleTalk
• Google Maps with Accelerometer
• Gmail
• Google Calendar
• Google Docs
• Seamless Wi-Fi Connection
• Physical Keyboard
• Touchscreen
• Open Development Environment - I can make my own apps in Java and Apple won’t monitor it.
• Android
• $179 price tag
• My plan would be only $65 / month for a G1 with T-Mobile vs the $85 / month I’d pay for an iPhone with AT&T.

Drawbacks to the G1:

• T-Mobile does not have a 3G network in Provo or Salt Lake City.  There are “plans.”
• Its not an Apple product.
• 1 GB of storage compared to 8 GB or 16 GB on an iPhone.

Why it works for me:

I don’t need it to play my music, I have 2 iPods to do that.  I’m a Windows PC user and I don’t need to sync with Apple products.  I use all of Google’s products which are all integrated with the G1.  The main reason I don’t choose an iPhone is the monthly price point.  When you add up $85 for the plan that I need, you are paying $480 over the course of 2 years more for the same service that is on T-Mobile’s G1.

If you are in a non-3G area, you have to order the phone online.  They will not have them in T-Mobile stores in non-3G areas.

Not even considering a Blackberry, yuck.

Wondering if the Google Android will be able to fight its corner in a very competitive smartphone market we decided to take look at what challenges Google and the android platform will need to overcome.

Lets take a look at its competitors, RIM, BlackBerry, iPhone, Windows Mobile and Symbian straight away you should be able to put “Google or Android” next to this bunch and you can see its way down the list of operating systems for smartphones.

Symbian is produced by a group of the largest cell phone manufacturers in the world including Nokia and Ericsson and with the news that Symbian will become open-source added to the fact that a group called LiMo Foundation is developing a Linux-based operating system for cell phones, this making Android one of three open-source options.

We know that Google and the company has become part of our everyday lives we “Google it” all the time but look how many initiatives it’s been churning out in every direction, it seems like they will try anything but then not follow through, look at Open Social the Google rival for facebook, exactly, never heard of it!

So these are very skeptical views of Google and the T-Mobile G1, but we do have to be real Google have done remarkably well, Google (GOOG) is the leader in paid search and takes a 73.5 percent of the $10.4 billion that advertisers will spend on searches in the US this year according to eMarketer.
Share prices n Google (GOOG) closed trade at 328.98 on October 9.

A basic “emulator” for the T-Mobile G1 Android phone has been released by none other than T-Mobile itself.

When the site loads, it shows three options in the top right hand corner of your browser window: “360 View”, “Guides” and “Emulator”.

The 360 degree view is that that, automatically spinning around, opening up the screen to show the keyboard beneath, turning from a vertical configuration to a horizontal one, and closing the screen again.

You can see that there are volume buttons on the side, a camera button, a flap covering the charge socket, the words “with Google” on the back, the words “HTC” on the back of the slide-up screen, the camera, the keyboard and main buttons and the track pad.

Manually moving the phone around is limited to the set “pattern” of the 360 degree view, but it still lets you pause the motion so you can see the phone from all sides more clearly.

After than come some basic guides, these show you the “Keyboard slide”, “Battery removal”, “SIM Card Insertion” and “SD Memory Card Insertion”.

The most interesting part of the site is the “Emulator”.

Here you can see what using the Android OS is actually like. Although the demo is effectively “canned”, not giving you “true” access to the Internet, for example, you can click on all the icons, move the screen around, “type” using your mouse on the keys, see what answering a phone call is like, see a new SMS, MMS or email message, bring the “slider” down that shows you your notifications, see the music player, the camera, seeing what Google search, Gmail and Google Maps looks like and all the other G1 Android gPhone features.

It’s clearly no substitute for holding a real G1 in your hands and having a go, but seeing as the US will get it first with most of the rest of the world having to wait until sometime in 2009 to try it, the emulator is the closest many of us will get to the G1 before it lands in local stores.

And even though it’s a “canned” demo, it’s pretty clear to see that version 1 of Google’s phone operating system looks pretty sweet right from the word “go”.

I hope Microsoft’s ogling it and is getting a few clues for Windows Mobile 7!

HTC announced a rise of 31% in its handset sales in the third quarter. However, profits declined by 4.9% in comparison with 12 months ago, reflecting a squeeze on margins.

The handset manufacturer’s revenues increased from £510m between July and September 2007, to £663m during the same financial period in 2008.

The company claims that shipments were slower than forecasted due to ‘typhoon weather’ in September.

The Taiwanese manufacturer is responsible for the production of T-Mobile’s G1 handset, which commentators are predicting will capture 4% of the US smartphone market in the fourth quarter. Its best-selling handsets this year have been the Touch Diamond and Touch Pro.

At Google, we develop products that we love to use ourselves. For example, we’re avid users of Search, Gmail, Maps, and many others. But for those of us in mobile, it’s tough. Not all products work the same on all devices, and although we try and optimize for each device, we often run into challenges specific to certain mobile phone platforms. I, for one, used to carry three devices with me all day. I love my iPhone for its powerful browser and music player. I use my BlackBerry for Gmail and Calendar (and occasionally Brick Breaker), and I carry a Nokia N-series phone because of its camera and YouTube application.

The first Android-powered phone, announced today by T-Mobile, comes ‘with Google’. The following Google applications are preloaded on the device: Search, Maps, Gmail with Contacts, Calendar, Google Talk, and YouTube. There are a few things I’m particularly excited about:

• Easy to use. It’s never been easier to use Google on your phone. With single sign-in, you can log in to your Google account and have instant access to all your favorite Google products. No messing around with settings, your login never expires, and everything just works. If you don’t have a Google account yet, you can set one up on your phone and be up and running in seconds.
• Fully synchronized. Your emails, contacts, calendar entries, Google Talk chats are fully synchronized with Gmail and Calendar on the web. New events are pushed in real-time to your phone and any changes you make on-the-go are immediately available on the web. If you ever lose or break your phone, all your data is safe and secure in the cloud.
• Designed to work together. Search is now available as a feature in many applications, including non-Google ones, such as the music player. While you’re listening to a song — like something from Depeche Mode — just ‘long-press’ the artist’s name. You’ll see a menu pop up that let’s you search Google for the Depeche Mode Wikipedia entry, or search YouTube for the music video. The contact application lets you see your friend’s IM status, view his address on a map, and communicate with him using Gmail or Google Talk. And, of course, you can call or text him as well.

Check out the video below to see these features in action:

The Google applications on Android take full advantage of the features of the Android platform. Gmail is built on ‘embedded WebViews‘, the real-time push features and synchronization use the multi-tasking capabilities of the platform, and the integration between applications relies on the ‘Android Application Framework‘.

We’re kicking off a new blog series, called ‘Google on Android’. Over the next couple of weeks, we will dig deeper into each one of the Google applications available for Android, and at the end of the series, I’ll let you know whether I’ve decided to switch phones or switch to pants that let me carry four phones instead of three.