Get to know Tmobile G1

According to the T-Mobile G1 event today and the T-Mobile pre-order page, you can get the long-awaited phone for as low as $179 come October 22nd.

The T-Mobile G1 web site went up with a bunch of placeholders late last night, but it’s finally fully live after this morning’s big unveiling, and while it’s not exactly bursting with detailed info, there’s plenty of new pictures and details, including updated 3G coverage information.

Check out our hands-on video of the T-Mobile G1 after the break.

Google’s Android team, however, is reportedly toning down its expectations of particularly heavy press coverage, though it’s not said what if anything would prompt a muted response.

But some members of our Android Community have found their pre-order price to be exponentially higher.

While that’s not a first, it could be a major differentiating feature for Android phones here on out, since it sounds like the app is advanced and partially web-based: it has the threading, search, and Google Talk presence features of the web client.

We finally, finally got our mitts all over the very first Android device, the T-Mobile G1 hanging out in the crowd, waiting for the official announce, naturally and so far we like what we see.

Previously only shown in a handful of indoor shots, the G1 is again an exact match for prototypes Google has used to demonstrate the phone and is described by the Google worker using the phone as the production version of the HTC Dream.

Other than the black color, T-Mobile will be offering the white T-Mobile G1 too.

Google just posted a few videos showing all the Google applications loaded on the T-Mobile G1.

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This same alleged insider also claims that T-Mobile will introduce “aggressively priced” new data plans to capitalize on the G1’s faster 3G data access.

Amazon MP3 store, IMing, Street View compass mode and plenty more highlighted in the videos posted after the break.

The seeming revelations set the stage for a key competition in the US cellular business, which on the high-end has been increasingly dominated by Apple’s iPhone and RIM’s BlackBerries.

We just heard that for the first 90 days after purchase, all apps from the T-Mobile Marketplace will be free for phone buyers.

With under a week to go before the HTC Dream is officially unveiled in the Big Apple, the Wall Street Journal has given us something juicy to gnaw on for the time being: a price.

Also believed to be confirmed in the scoop is word that the device will carry Google branding in addition to T-Mobile’s name as well as the name of the manufacturer, HTC.

Here’s some initial observations: the browser is much choppier than the iPhone’s, there seem to be be two separate mail apps, one for Gmail and a separate IMAP app, and there seems to be no multitouch functionality.

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T-Mobile’s upcoming Android phone has been spotted today courtesy of a blog entry from someone with access to the phone ahead of the carrier’s official debut on the 23rd.

T-Mobile’s G1 smartphone will match the pricing of the iPhone 3G when it’s announced next week, according to tips supplied to the Wall Street Journal.

These leaks appear just as T-Mobile itself has set a press event for September 23rd to introduce the G1 and has announced rapid 3G expansion for the year, most of which should be complete by the time the Android phone goes on sale roughly a month later.

Amazon’s always looking for creative new ways to distribute digital media and in light of its recently-launched Video On Demand service and the decent head of steam AmazonMP3 has managed to build, it’d probably just love to shoehorn its way onto a high-profile mobile device right about now.

Available soon for T-Mobile customers spanning two continents, the T-Mobile G1 combines full touch-screen functionality and a QWERTY keyboard with a mobile Web experience that includes the Google Maps Street View, Gmail, YouTube and others.

T-Mobile is set to announce their first Android phone this month on September 23rd.

The carrier is believed to be pricing the G1 at an iPhone level and with new data plans to encourage added data use.

VentureBeat is reporting a juicy rumor of a G1 that made an appearance somewhere in San Fran’s seedy underbelly over the weekend bearing an Amazon music and video app designed to dole out media for cash, suggesting that Android’s first commercial hardware might come out of the gate ready not just to lock horns with the iPhone’s WiFi App Store, but also to straight-up beat it by throwing in movie and TV download capability.

Apple’s iTunes will not walk alone in the mobile industry: an Amazon music and video store application will run on Google’s Android mobile platform.

Here we are just minutes from the announcement of the first Android powered handset.

With an open-source OS this phone is going to be one stiff competitor to the iPhone 3G.