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The T-Mobile G1 captured all the headlines by being the world’s first Android-powered mobile phone, but the plan was always to have Android be a completely open source operating system, available for use in, well, any mobile phones that people felt like sticking it in. And so, a freelance company has done just that, and made the world’s second Android phone, according to Engadget Mobile.

Hailing from Australia, it’s the Kogan Agora. And if that’s not an incitement to go, “Eh? Who?” I don’t know what is…

Ok, this next story may have well have got drowned out in all the shouting about the Nokia N97 (yes, that included me going, “Want one, want one, want one!“), but the release of the smartphone powerhouse wasn’t the only news Nokia had to tell us yesterday.

According to the Boy Genius Report, Nokia also confirmed that their full acquisition of Symbian has now gone through. So, no more wrangling, no more negotiations, Nokia’s now in charge of the Symbian universe.

Which means what, exactly?

Being a man, I naturally like to see two enemies squaring up to have a massive fight. It’s especially funny when it’s two big names from the world of mobile phones. We’ve seen it before with Modu having a pop at Nokia, Microsoft having a pop at Google Android, and Apple yelling that they could ‘ave everyone with one hand tied behind their back, rah, rah, bring it on, etc…

I strolled into my local Verizon store this week to play with the Storm, the new Blackberry phone and latest touch-screen device to hit the marketplace. I am a huge fan of touch-screen devices, and love that all the top OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) are pumping these devices into the marketplace to compete with Apple.

We just got our G1 Android phone and we will be providing a review later. So far I've been playing Pac-Man on the device and it's pretty fun.

I downloaded it from the Android Market, and according to the NY Times, the early download numbers are impressive with the estimate of nearly 3 million downloads in the first week. You can see more data on the number and types of apps on a report from Medialets here.

Well, now the T-Mobile G1 has been launched, and now we’ve seen the queues forming to grab Google Android, it’s time to take a look at what other mobile phones are going to appear with that robotically-named operating system packed into ‘em.

Motorola

News has come through from MobileBurn, regarding Motorola’s plans to get themselves out of the financial doldrums, and make their mobile phones so much more desirable. To do that, they’re going to slim down vastly from the 7 different platforms their mobile phones run on, and concentrate on just 3, which actually makes a lot of sense, since they can focus their efforts, then, just like Nokia do with the triple-header of S40, S60 and S60 Touch platforms.

So, the question is, what software platforms will Motorola mobile phones be based on in future?

Apparently the demand for the first Google Android phone is huge. According to multiple blogs, the first shipment of the T-Mobile G1 sold out through pre-orders from existing T-Mobile subscribers, so the company tripled its order to Taiwanese handset maker HTC. The bigger batch sold out, too. That means that about 1.5 million G1s are destined to fill pre-order sales. The carrier is also preparing to have another couple million G1s available at retail stores beginning Oct. 22.

I'm thinking about getting one myself.

Much has been made, recently, of the brand new T Mobile G1, the first phone in history to be built around Google Android and how it will change the world of mobile phones. Equally, there’s been loads of talk this year about the iPhone, and how it will, yes, change the world of mobile phones.

But then, there’s a third player, and unusually (and refreshingly), this one isn’t saying it’s going to change the world of mobile phones.

A report’s popped up on Vnunet, confirming that Sony Ericsson have been trying out Google Android on a couple of prototype mobile phones. However, it also confirms that there won’t be any Sony Ericsson Android mobile phones for the foreseeable future.

It would seem Sony Ericsson don’t like Android…

Over the past few weeks, rumours have abounded about the HTC Dream, rumoured to be the first phone to use the Google Android operating system, the open source system designed to take mobile phones to the next level.

The Google-phone, in other words…

Over the past few weeks, rumours have abounded about the HTC Dream, rumoured to be the first phone to use the Google Android operating system, the open source system designed to take mobile phones to the next level.

The Google-phone, in other words…

The wireless spectrum auction is reaching an interesting stage: After 18 rounds of bidding that began one week ago, bids for the “C block” of nationwide spectrum reached $4.7 billion today. This means that the FCC’s open access rules for part of the spectrum will now come into play, something Google (NSDQ: GOOG) had been pushing for.

Fellow Blogger MobHappy calls it a "Big Day for Mobile in the US" and we couldn't agree more.