How will T-Mobile's Google Phone Debut Compare to Iphone's?

It will be the first phone that uses Google's Android operating system which was created by Taiwanese handset maker HTC.

T-Mobile will be unveiling the HTC Dream, aka the T-Mobile G1 today in New York but will only start selling in stores in October and will retail for $199.

HTC reportedly expects there to have been 600,000 to 700,000 Dream units shipped by 2009, some 70-plus days after the launch.

Apple Inc. sold more than a million of its latest iPhones in the first three days, and 1.39 million of the original devices within three months of their June 2007 debut.

The T-Mobile G1 is expected to sell anywhere between 250,000 to 450,000 units by the end of the year, depending on when the phone hits retail stores, says Michael Gartenberg, vice president of Jupitermedia.

However, Google's Dream phone will be the first major smart phone to use open-source technology, which could further revolutionize the smart phone industry.

According to Google, the new phone will be called the 'Dream' and will have QWERTY keypad that swivels out, similar to the iPhone. The Google phone will have rotary control, similar to that of the BlackBerry.

The Dream phone is 4.6 x 2.16 x 0.63 inches, weighs 5.6 ounces, features a 480 x 320 HVGA display, has 3G, GPS, features a 3.1-megapixel camera, supports up to 8GB of memory, and has 5 hours of talk time with 130 hours of standby, according to TmoNews, a T-mobile blog.