The Google Phone

(WIRED) — Google’s much-anticipated new phone, the HTC-designed Nexus One, could make its debut next week.

Google has scheduled a press event for Tuesday, January 5 at its Mountain View, California, headquarters. Though the company hasn’t mentioned Nexus One, the invitation mentions Android, Google’s mobile operating system for phones, and the company is widely expected to show the device that has had smartphone industry watchers buzzing for weeks.

The invitation-only event will be held two days before the Consumer Electronics Show begins in Las Vegas and just one day before many CES exhibitors have scheduled major press conferences.

It’s a move straight out of the Apple playbook. In January, 2007, Apple famously upstaged CES when it unveiled the first iPhone at an event in San Francisco — even as most technology journalists and executives were huddled in Las Vegas for the trade show.

Google hasn’t commented about Nexus One. But recent online leaks suggest the Nexus One will be a GSM-device with a 3.7-inch AMOLED touchscreen, 5-megapixel camera, Wi-Fi connectivity, accelerometer and compass. It is expected to run the latest version of the Android operating system, Android 2.1.

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HTC G1 Unboxing

T-Mobile google phone

The Google android phone is the G1

As of Sept 25th T-mobile id dedicated a page to the new G1 Google Phone

The Page

T-Mobile is committed to helping our customers richly connect with those most important to them, and innovation is the foundation of that mission. In 2007, T-Mobile became a founding member of the Open Handset Alliance, an initiative that is strongly committed to greater openness in the mobile industry. T-Mobile supports increased openness because it will foster rapid innovation to best meet consumer demands.

The T-Mobile G1 with Google is the first commercially available phone to run on the ‘Android’ operating system, which empowers developers with tools to create and offer consumers applications that add value to their lives. This is one of many initiatives T-Mobile is working on to lead the industry in bringing real innovation to wireless customers.

They are promoting:

One touch Google Search
Custom Home Page
Full Qwerty Keyboard
Google Maps Street View
3 Mega-Pixel Camera

Google and T-Mobile  announced the release date of October 22nd. for the Google G1 phone.  T-Mobile will have the G1 Google Phone available for $179 dollars. 

Plan details include $25 with unlimited web & some text messages, and $35 with unlimited data and messaging. That is competitively priced against the iPhone 3G with unlimited data and some text at $30 a month, while unlimited data and messaging costing $50 each month. These plans however are still not as low as other devices such as the Sidekick.

The G1 has a 3.2-inch 320 x 480 (HVGA) resolution capacitive touchscreen, dual-band UMTS HSPA, WiFi, GPS and Bluetooth.  There’s also a 3.2-megapixel fixed-focus camera, quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE, a flip-out full QWERTY keyboard, microSD slot (with a 1GB card provided and up to 8GB supported) and a trackball for navigation.