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

Updated on 23 September 2008

By Emily Reuben

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?

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