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Coordinated by Google, the Android platform has been finally released into the market!

T-Mobile is already accepting pre-orders for the first HTC with it, the G1, being priced at $179.99 (plus taxes and fees; two-year agreement required). You can see the video about it at HTC home page, but before that, here are the specs:

• 3.2-inch TFT-LCD flat touch-sensitive screen with HVGA (320 X 480 pixel) resolution.
• Full 5-row QWERTY keyboard.
• One-click Google Search.
• Customizable Home screen with instant Email, text message and IM notifications.
• Instant access to Google services (Gmail, YouTube, Maps, Google Talk, Calendar).
• High-speed 3.5G network connection.
• Wi-Fi technology with seamless transition to open networks.
• Android Market with access to variety of software and media downloads. (some fees may apply)
• 3.2 megapixel color camera with auto focus.
• microSD™ (SD 2.0 compatible) expansion slot for all your storage needs.

Forget about the closed IPhone, here’s the new hype!

Do you love open source? Would you like to learn how to program? Are you a student who’s not yet reached university? Are you aged 13 or above?

This is for you!

Google’s Higly Open Participation Contest will bring together young developers and open-source. They’ve gathered some great projects, like Apache, GNOME, Python, and many other, that will now give to the contestants several type of assignments, like writing code or documentation and patching bugs.

At the conclusion of the contest, contestants will receive a t-shirt and certificate for completing at least one task and 100 USD for every three tasks completed (maximum 500 USD per contestant).

Still waiting?

Google’s now looking after developers to create great applications to the first open handset platform. To motivate developers to download and start playing with the SDK, Google will be offering $10 million among the ones with better applications!

Here’s a video showing some of the already built applications . Amazing!

What would it take to build a better mobile phone?

The question is put by the Open Handset Alliance, which is gathering a group of more than 30 technology and mobile companies who have come together to accelerate innovation in mobile and offer consumers a richer, less expensive, and better mobile experience. Some really important names are behind the project, like Google, HTC, LG, NVIDIA, Intel and many, many others!

In order to the do this, they’ve developed Android, the first complete, open, and free mobile platform, that will be released in the second half of 2008.

It appears that all the rumors behind Google’s Phone are now demystified. They’re not creating a mobile phone of their own, as was being said, but hardly working as part of the Open Handset Alliance.

This is definitely a project with the right motivation and sponsors to become something really huge! Will it blend the Iphone?

Rumors about the so mighty to come Google’s Phone are always on the news!

This time, something more specific has came out. Wired is saying that the Google Phone will be Linux powered, have GPS and it will be really cheap, being more close to the $100 OLPC than the $500 IPhone. Really good news, mainly for European clients, where Apple is taking so long to sell their IPhone.

In a recent change to Google services, they’ve added an More button, in order to let the user directly jump to any other Google service available.

From his current window, the user can open the following menu by pressing more: