I use Gmail, Google search, Google Maps, Gtalk and Google Synch on my Blackberry Curve. They are also available on the iPhone, with the addition of YouTube, Reader, Picasa and iGoogle, as Google will announce at Mac World.
And of course, Android will be supporting primarily Google Apps. The Open Handset Alliance already counts more than 30 members, including giants like HTC, LG, Motorola and Samsung as phone manufacturers, and Sprint, T-mobile, China Mobile amongst its operators.
The numbers are impressive, the Open Handset Alliance already counts 786 millions mobile subscribers (if the sources are correct, see below). That’s the number of mobile phones sold worldwide in 2005, according to Gartner, and should have surpassed the billion in 2007.
China Mobile: 349
Telefonica: 154
T-Mobile: 113
Telecom Italia: 34
Sprint Nextel: 54
NTT DoCoMo: 53
KDDI: 29 (source)
So at the end of the day, the GPhone is not an attack to the iPhone, it’s clearly a hit at Windows. And with Google Apps gaining traction on and off line, MS Office is to be scared too.
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