The Motorola Milestone: will Google Androids take over in 2010?

Next Monday sees the release of the latest mobile phone to run Google’s Android operating system. The Motorola Milestone is a significant launch and is already being touted as an “iPhone killer”, not least because it will be the first handset to run Android 2.0, the very latest version of the software. Android – the brainchild of search giant Google and a consortium of handset makers and component manufacturers – is finally beginning to realise its huge potential, and so too are consumers. The platform was conceived to help bring a desktop computing experience to mobile devices, and make things like email, instant messaging and quick web browsing accessible to the masses. When the first Android phone went on sale last year, reaction was lukewarm; the handset, the G1, was clunky and didn’t compare favourably to Apple’s iPhone, the new gold standard for design. Most consumers still choose phones on the basis of what they look like rather than what they do; Android phones finally do the platform justice. The forthcoming Motorola Milestone, known as the Droid in the US, has sold more than 800,000 handsets since it went on sale there at the start of November – the sort of purchasing frenzy that’s usually associated with the release of a new iPhone.

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/mobile-phones/6712089/The-Motorola-Milestone-will-Google-Androids-take-over-in-2010.html