Quote:Google’s $199 phone to compete with the iPhone

The Google-powered cell phone is coming soon, and it will retail for $199, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The price of the new Google (GOOG) smart phone would put the device head-to-head with Apple’s $199 iPhone (AAPL). The Google phone, which features a touchscreen and is made by Taiwanese manufacturer HTC, faces some stiff competition. The iPhone 3G has generated significant interest among consumers for redefining touch-screen technology, popularizing mobile applications and significantly improving Web navigation on cell phones.

T-Mobile (DT), the first carrier that will run Google’s Android mobile software, will show off the new phone to analysts and reporters on Tuesday in Manhattan. It is expected to hit stores later this fall.

Representatives from Google, HTC and T-Mobile would not comment on the Journal’s report.

Google unveiled features of the Android operating system on an unidentified black HTC handset at a developers conference in London on Wednesday.

The HTC phone is just the first of many Google-powered phones, according to the search giant. For Google to reach its ultimate goal - driving mobile Internet use and, in turn, ads - it will need to get multiple devices in the hands of mainstream consumers. The price will also need to be right, given that companies like Palm and Samsung already offer entry-level smartphones for $100.

- Source: [CNN]

I dunno about this one...

HTC For the win!!! i love their phones. Hopefully they don't put Mobile Windows on it though...

ubuntu mobile for the win

i have their 8525.

Ehh, I would still buy the iPhone. I mean, they made the technology mainstream, and everyone else is still playing catch-up. Unless Google can pull a rabbit out of a hat, it's not gonna work.

I kinda saw this sort of thing coming but a phone?

Incadude Wrote:HTC For the win!!! i love their phones. Hopefully they don't put Mobile Windows on it though...

ubuntu mobile for the win

i have their 8525.

Google phones will have android, obviously...

sorry all i read is the title and then i respond and then i read the article and then i look like an idiot.  D'oh!

I had an 8525..its ok...i like my HTC Tilt aka Kaiser much better!

I don't like the iphone because of hte on screen keyboard..i need ubttons under my fingers.

As for android, it IS a linux based kernel, not sure which one, but i ran it briefly on my tilt a few weeks ago.  right now what thye had ported and working was VERY unspectacular!  Like running lindows or something lame like that.

Iphone has the edge on the pretty interface, no other company can compete with that...along with the superb response in the operating system and switching applications, HTC phones fail in that area..ESPECIALLY on windows being dumb and not closing programs so you have the last dozen programs STILL RUNNING in the background even though you said to exit.  meh...

If you want to see more about running Android on a Tilt/Kaiser go here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=396782