T-Mobile MyTouch 3G with GoogleT-Mobile and Google held a joint event this morning to argue that the Android mobile operating system is gathering momentum even in the face of the iPhone’s rapid growth.
T-Mobile showed off its latest Android smartphone, the T-Mobile MyTouch 3G with Google, which is available for preorder now and goes on sale later this summer. The MyTouch is faster, thinner, has no physical keyboard, and has a brighter touchscreen than the T-Mobile G1, the first Android phone which went on sale eight months ago. Beyond that product, there are about 18 to 20 Android phones debuting around the world later this year.
As such, Android has barely begun its assault on Apple’s iPhone fortress. Andy Rubin, the chief Android executive at Google and vice president of mobile engineering platforms (pictured above right with panel moderator Dan Gillmor), said at the event that Android’s main advantage over Apple continues to be its openness and its ability to draw in a large number of hardware partners, carriers and developers into its fold.
We’ll have more conversations with T-Mobile and Google at our MobileBeat conference on Thursday.
“In the end, it’s a numbers game,” he said, in reference to competition with the iPhone. “History has shown a single product has limits on how the numbers can scale. The power of Android is there can be 1,000 different products built on Android. The magic is they are all compatible….There could be 1,000 killer apps. The user gets to decide which ones they want to use.” [click to continue…]
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