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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…

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…

Way back when (well, in February), we ran a story on Modu, a company aiming to bring modular mobile phones to the market. They had potential, they had a fighting spirit, and they had a unique offering for people who wanted something a bit different from their mobile phones. Put simply, they made a tiny little mobile phone module, that you could slot into other ‘jackets’, like a USB Modem sleeve, or a top-end camera phone sleeve, or whatever, the idea being that the jackets gave you your extra features like camera, or media player, and so on.

News today from the Boy Genius Report might well be an indicator of even more bad tidings heading Motorola’s way. Up until now, no matter how badly they did with their international mobile phones, Motorola could at least rely on the American market for sustenance, since they were the number 1 manufacturer in the land of the free.

Not any more, though. Samsung have kicked them off the top spot.

By now, most people have heard of the T-Mobile G1. It’s the first Google Android mobile phone, it has that marketplace thing, people queued up for hours on opening day to buy it, and so on. All reports seem to indicate it’s flawed but genius.

Well, all reports except the one by American network, Verizon, who say it’s flawed but rubbish, according to Engadget Mobile.

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?

As much as I’m not a fan of the iPhone, this brand new app for it has actually impressed me quite a bit. According to The Boy Genius Report (and verified by our very own Dan, who’s just downloaded it), Google Earth has made it’s way onto mobile phones, with the very first incarnation of it appearing on the iPhone.

And, against all expectations (given how much you all know I dislike the iPhone), I actually think it’s pretty cool.

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.

You would’ve had to have been living under a very big and heavy rock not to be aware of the launch of the T Mobile G1, the very first mobile phone ever powered by Google Android. However, very few people have actually had the chance to play with one.

Well, it’s not the real thing in the flesh, but now everyday folks like me and you can have a muck around with it, virtually, online, as T Mobile have put up a T-Mobile-G1-stylee-emulator-thing, to let people fiddle with the menus, and see how it works.

(Note: all views expressed are SOLELY those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect those of Mobileshop.com) 

You may have noticed that yesterday, I did a list of the big touchscreen mobile phones due out before Christmas, in the Blackberry Storm story. You may also have noticed that I conspicuously left one very big upcoming mobile phone out of that list. Well, there’s a very good reason for that…

It’s the T Mobile G1, it’s the first mobile phone that’s powered by Google Android, and given the amount of interest it’s getting, it easily deserved a post all to itself.