Latest Channel 4 News:
Row over Malaysian state's coins
'Four shot at abandoned mine shaft'
Rain fails to stop Moscow wildfires
Cancer blow for identical twins
Need for Afghan progress 'signs'

Google's Android mobile phone goes head to head with Apple's iPhone

By Emily Reuben

Updated on 23 September 2008

Can the HTC Dream mobile phone, powered by Google's Android software, compete with the iPhone and the Blackberry?

Google has conquered the internet, but can it flog a phone?

The T-Mobile G1 handset has just been launched and will go head to head in a highly competitive market with the likes of the Blackberry and the Apple iPhone.

It is being touted as a way of accessing hundreds of applications, from maps to new games, which anyone can create and anyone can download.

So is this really "unlimited freedom to communicate"? Or is the company best known for its search engine trying to spread itself too thin?

Send this article by email

More on this story

Channel 4 is not responsible for the content of external websites.


Watch the Latest Channel 4 News

Watch Channel 4 News when you want

Latest Science Technology & Environment news

More News blogs

View RSS feed

Autism breakthrough

image

A new brain scan could diagnose autism in 15 minutes.

New superbug

image

"Medical tourism" spreads a new superbug to the UK.

Oil spill: BP 'failed'

BP oil spill

Professor Rick Steiner asks why killing the blowout took so long.

A new energy source?

image

Exclusive access inside the UK's first shale gas well.

Most watched

image

Find out which reports and videos are getting people clicking online.




Channel 4 © 2010. Channel 4 is not responsible for the content of external websites.