The Google Android phone is here!

 On Tuesday, T-Mobile and Google announced the first-ever handset with Google’s new Android operating system.

Called the T-Mobile G1, it has both full touch-screen functionality, a QWERTY keyboard, a trackball for one-handed navigation, plus access to mobile Web applications like Google Maps Street View, Gmail, YouTube, and more.

The G1 is available for pre-order now in the US in limited quantities fot T-Mobile registered users.

It will be available in retail stores from October 22, for $179 with a two-year voice and data agreement.

It will be available in the UK beginning November and across Europe in early 2009.

The Android provides the phone’s operating system as well as a platform for the phone to run a variety of software programs.

Google wrote Android using open-source software, which means any programmer has access to the source code that makes Android tick and can write software that runs on any mobile phone using Android.

Unlike the iPhone, the G1 features a mini QWERTY keyboard, which is accessed by sliding the touch screen to the side. When the keyboard is used the screen’s orientation changes from vertical to horizontal. The G1 can open files created using Microsoft Word and Excel.

Google Maps:
With Google Maps G1 users can instantly view maps and satellite imagery, as well as find local business and get driving directions, all from the phone’s easy-to-use touch interface.

The T-Mobile G1 also includes Google Maps Street View, allowing customers to explore cities at street-level virtually while on the go.

Not just this, Google Maps feature syncs with the built-in compass on the phone — an industry first — to allow users to view locations and navigate 360 degrees by simply moving the phone with their hand.

Communicating on the go:
The T-Mobile G1 features a rich HTML e-mail client, which seamlessly syncs your e-mail, calendar and contacts from Gmail as well as most other POP3 or IMAP e-mail services.

The T-Mobile G1 multitasks, so you can read a Web page while also downloading your e-mail in the background. It combines Instant Messaging support for Google Talk, as well as AOL, Yahoo! Messenger and Windows Live Messenger in the US.

With access to high-speed Web browsing and a 3-megapixel camera with photo-sharing capabilities, the T-Mobile G1 is ideal for balancing a busy lifestyle.

Embracing user-generated content: Customers can use the G1′s 3G and Wi-Fi connection to attach and share pictures over e-mail and MMS or download music from their favorite Web sites.

Built-in support for YouTube allows customers to enjoy YouTube’s originally created content.

Music:
You can’t play iTunes music files on the G1. Instead, T-Mobile is offering its own music service through Amazon Music, which gives customers easy access to Amazon MP3, Amazon.com’s digital music download store.

G1 customers will also able to search, sample, purchase and download music from Amazon MP3 directly.

The T-Mobile G1 will be the first device with the Amazon MP3 mobile application pre-loaded.

Android market:
The T-Mobile G1 is the first phone to offer access to Android Market.

When the phone launches next month, dozens of unique, first-of-a-kind Android applications will be available for download on Android Market.

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 Gone are the days!!! My Friend…
 When  The school reopened in June,
 And we settled in our new desks and benches!
 When we queued up in book depot,  And got our new books  and notes!
 When we wanted two Sundays and no Mondays, yet
 managed to line up daily for the morning prayers.
 We learnt writing with  slates and pencils, and  Progressed To fountain pens and ball pens and
 then Micro tips!
 When we began drawing with crayons and evolved to Color pencils and finally sketch pens!
 When we started calculating first with tables and then with Clarke’s tables and advanced to
 Calculators and computers!
 When we chased one another in the corridors in Intervals, and returned to the classrooms
 Drenched in sweat!
 When we had lunch in classrooms, corridors, Playgrounds, under the trees and even in cycle sheds!
 When all the colors in the world, Decorated the campus on the Second Saturdays!
 When a single P.T. period in the week’s Time Table,
 Was awaited more eagerly than the monsoons!
 When cricket was played with writing pads as bats, And Neckties and socks rolled into balls!
 When few played ”kabadi” and “Kho-Kho” in scorching sun,
 While others simply played ”book cricket” in the Confines of classroom!
 Of fights but no conspiracies, Of Competitions but seldom jealousy!
 When we used to watch Live Cricket telecast,
 In the opposite house in Intervals and Lunch breaks! When few rushed at 3:45 to
 ”Conquer” window seats in our School bus!
 While few others had “Big Fun”, “peppermint” , ”kulfi”, ” milk ice !” and “sharbat !” at 4o Clock!
 Gone are the days Of Sports Day, and the annual School Day ,
 And the one-month long preparations for them.
 Gone are the days Of the stressful Quarterly, Half Yearly and Annual Exams, And the most
 enjoyed holidays after them!
 Gone are the days Of tenth and twelfth standards, when
 We Spent almost the whole year writing revision tests!
 We learnt,
 We enjoyed,
 We played,
 We won,
 We lost,
 We laughed,
 We cried,
 We fought,
 We thought.
 With so much fun in them, so many friends, So much experience, all this and more!
 Gone are the days When we used to talk for hours with our friends!
 Now we don’t have time to say a `Hi’!
 Gone are the days When we played games on the road!
 Now we Code on the road with laptop!
 Gone are the days When we saw stars Shining at Night!
 Now we see stars when our code doesn’t Work!
 Gone are the days When we sat to chat with Friends on grounds!
 Now we chat in chat rooms…..!
 Gone are the days Where we studied just to pass! Now we study to save our job!
 Gone are the days Where we had no money in our pockets and still
 fun filled on our hearts!!
 Now we have the atm as well as credit card but with an empty heart!!
 Gone are the days Where we shouted on the road! Now we don’t shout even at home
 Gone are the days Where we got lectures from all! Now we give lectures to all…
 Gone are the days But not the memories, which will be
 Lingering in our hearts for ever and ever and Ever and ever and ever ……
 Gone are the Days…. But still there are lot more Days to come in our Life!!
 NO MATTER HOW BUSY YOU ARE ,
 DONT FORGET TO
 LIVE THE LIFE THAT STILL
 EXISTS……

- Shantan Nethikar

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