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As the first Android phone, T-Mobile's G1 was a much welcomed entry into the smartphone market. And it may have been considered the must-have smartphone were it not for a certain device from Apple. The reason is that while the Android platform itself has a lot of possibility given its open nature, the G1 hardware simply was not great when compared to something like the iPhone.

HTC plans to start selling a smartphone based on Google's Android operating system next month in China, the first such Google-based phone in the world's biggest wireless market.

ASUS on Friday said it has been developing a netbook based on Google's Android platform that would ship by the end of 2009 -- and would make Linux on netbooks a real alternative to more expensive (not to mention closed) Windows PCs.

A second phone based on Google's operating system Android is unveiled by Vodafone at the Mobile World Congress.

Google Inc will allow developers to sell applications for its Android cell phone operating system beginning next week in the United States.

The mobile version of Google Book Search gives would-be Amazon Kindle buyers another option for reading classic literature on-the-go.