G1

A regional China Unicom Web site posted pictures of the iPhone 3G and the Google Android-powered G1 amid rumors China Unicom will offer the iPhone 3G.

The fourth quarter launch of T-Mobile's G1, the first smartphone to use Google's Android OS, helped the handset's maker HTC nearly meet its earnings targets despite a sharp global economic downturn.

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Hackers have found a way to get root access to a G1 Android mobile phone.

Some of the new applications loaded to the Android Market since it opened on Monday don't work very well, crash the phone, aren't particularly elegant and in one case, uses commands written in Chinese. But analysts say the good will start to outweigh the bad.

Researchers at Independent Security Evaluators say they've discovered a security flaw in the Android browser that could make users of phones with the browser vulnerable to attack.

The first day of sales for Google's Android phone hasn't quite echoed the frenzy surrounding initial iPhone sales, but a few hardy souls across the country got up early to buy the first devices available in stores.

The T-Mobile G1, RIM's BlackBerry Storm and the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 all come with support for HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) at 7.2M bps (bits per second), as well as HSUPA (High Speed Uplink Packet Access) at 2M bps. "By the end of this year a good proportion of mid- and high-tier products are certainly going to be 7.2M bps," said Geoff Blaber, analyst at CCS Insight.