Well, there’s a good chance you’ve heard all the hubub on the tech front about Google releasing the Nexus-One in the last couple days. It’s certainly going to be interesting seeing how the phone shapes up against the iPhone. While the phone isn’t available here in Australia at present, it has come out in the US.
The phone runs Google’s own mobile Operating System known as Android and has a touch screen interface somewhat similar to the iPhone, though it doesn’t appear to support multi-touch for all it’s applications just yet.
Google are selling the phone via their website (from a very Apple looking page), rather than in retail stores. While we can’t actually purchase the phone, you can visit the site and get a better idea of what the phone looks like and some of the cool features that it has. Check it out at: http://www.google.com/phone
Personally I think the phone looks quite presentable and some of the features like Voicemail transcription are nice additions (which we don’t yet have on the iPhone). Another thing that’s very cool is that the phone comes with a free GPS app, something that I’m sure TomTom and Navigon and some of other GPS providers out there aren’t too happy about.
Anyway, maybe we’ll get some of these cool new features in the next generation iPhone which is expected mid-year. I guess we’ll have to wait and see.