Motorola Readies Its Own Android Social Smartphone – ZDNet

I was excited when the G1 was released on T-Mobile, actually considered switching until I realized that I would have a great phone with no service seeing how T-Mobile doesn’t have the best coverage in my area.  The article states that the debut is October 22, but the actual release is hoping to be within Q2 2009.  Thats not far at all.

I’m really hoping that android is what is needed to give some competition to the iPhone.  When I say competition I mean for the mainstream market.  In the buisness market, we have already had phones that do what the iPhone can do.  The problem I have with the iPhone is the same problem I have with other Apple products (with exception to the iPod), that Apple’s platform is too shut off.  Apple is the exact opposite of open source.  They want to control everything.  They even have a remote kill switch on your iPhone that you purchased and can shut you down at anytime.  Also, Apple likes to give the perception that they are flawless, and in order to do that they hide very big problems from the user, mostly security exploits.  And to anyone who wants to tell me that OSX is more secure than windows please JUMP HERE.  People who switch from PC to Mac say that Mac works better, I say they just don’t know how to use a computer properly.

Anyway…I’m looking forward to this release and can’t wait to see the new phone.  I’ve always been a pretty big fan of Motorola.