A recent press release from Hitwise suggested that the UK public are predominantly referring to the new G1 Phone as the Google Phone. However, it is widely believed that this is an early trend led by the lack of UK publicity for the G1 Phone and widespread excitement surrounding rumours of a new phone created by Google.

Lets make this clear once and for all. The phone in question is the G1 Phone, built by HTC to be the first ever phone to run on the exciting new Google Android Operating Platform. Contracts for the G1 Phone will be exclusive to T-Mobile and will be available to the UK market in early November 2008 although will still await an exact UK release date.

One thing’s for sure, G1 Phone or Google Phone, we’re expecting the mobile experience to be taken to new highs when this one flies off the shelves in November.

Still sitting on the fence? Still not sure whether you want to upgrade to the new G1 Phone? Still want more answers? T-mobile has heard your beckoned call… well, sort of.

T-mobile have created an online simulator which allows you to get a better feel for the G1 phone, it has animated 360 views, animated guides on how the keyboard slides, how the battery is removed, how the SIM card is inserted and how to insert an SD memory card. It also has an emulator, a close up view of the screen so that you can have a play with Google’s android operating platform (Beware some screens are not fully functional). 

I know, I know, where do you go to see the new G1 phone? Well, click here, and feast your eyes on this little beauty!

G1 Phone Testdrive

T-Mobile’s new G1 Phone, the very first phone to operate on the much coveted Android Platform from Google is the talk of town, in fact lets rephrase that, it’s the talk of the globe! We all want one, but when can we get our hands on the G1 phone in the UK?

Everywhere we look there are news article galore about the G1 this and the G1 that, but why is it that everthing we read is always aimed at the US market? Ok so when it comes to release dates, we’re used to playing second fiddle to our friends across the atlantic, but that’s not the problem. It’s not that we need to know we can get a G1 before the US, we simply want to know when we can get one at all.

Well you may have seen already that pre orders for the G1 in the US have been and gone before many new about it, and those lucky enough to have got their order in can expect delivery on October 22. So far the only promises we have had for a UK release date for the G1 Phone is early November 2008, but we’ve heard from T-Mobile that we can expect a pre order window for the G1 phone to open in mid October.

Considering how quickly the US pre order window closed after opening, we’d suggest all of us who want to get our hands on the G1 phone on the day it gets released in the UK, and that is all of us, get our pre orders in the minute we see that window open.

Rest assured, the moment we hear T-Mobile are accepting pre orders for the G1, we will be covering it all over this website, and we’re quietly confident that will be the day that we get an official UK release date for the G1 phone.

Since Google announced the birth of Android back in November 2007 Android News have been very suspicious of its true heritage due to his instant rise to fame. We therefore decided to trace back android’s ancestry only to reveal a host of familiar characters. We are slowly piecing back android’s bloodline but please feel free to comment on anyone who you may think is related!

Want to join in more android antics come and join our facebook group “We want the new Google phone” which was created by Ray Specs, thanks Ray!

According to reports over in the States, T-mobile is looking to order between 1.5-2 million G1 phone in the near future and that’s including a predicted 400,000-500,000 G1’s to be sold in the fourth quarter of this year. Looks like it’s quids-in for the G1 phone’s handset manufacturer, HTC. It’s shipment of G1 phones is estimated to contribute over NT$18 billion to HTC`s sales performance next year.

…and what about predicted sales in the UK? All we know is, Father C better be ready for the UK pre order!