iPhone to get Android’s Google Street View magic TG Daily Mon, 06 Oct 2008 4:45 PM PDT Developers sifting through the beta files of the iPhone 2.2 software have come across three new end-user features. The most significant is Google Street View for the Maps application that taps the accelerometer sensor so that the view changes as you change the direction of the phone. It also appears that Apple bowed to public pressure an integrated a preference option to turn off the … iPhone-like carrier switches for T-Mobile’s G1? The Christian Science Monitor Mon, 06 Oct 2008 3:20 PM PDT When they introduced the G1 late last month (the first phone to make use of the Android operating system), T-Mobile and Google were hoping to make an iPhone-like splash in the mobile communications market. If pre-orders are any indicator, it looks like they’ve succeeded – by selling out. But pre-orders are just the first step.

New Google phone to compete with iPhone? KVII 7 Amarillo Mon, 06 Oct 2008 9:50 AM PDT Monday, October 06, 2008 at 11:41 a.m. Did you know Google makes cell phones? Their newest release is called the Android. And to be honest, Google didn’t build the hardware for the phone, just the software. RIM to Launch BlackBerry “Application Center” TechCrunch Mon, 06 Oct 2008 9:59 AM PDT You’re looking at the BlackBerry Application Center, RIM’s answer to Apple’s App Store and Google’s Android Market. Same basic concept as the other two—you browse and buy applications that enhance your BlackBerry experience. The Application Center—we’re running out of variants of the term “application store!”—is set to debut with the BlackBerry Storm software version 4.7.

Ballmer: Zune to show up on Windows Mobile, Android/Apple bashing Tech Digest via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News Mon, 06 Oct 2008 7:40 AM PDT Steve Ballmer’s been talking to a number of sites about the challenge faced by Android, as well as future Zune plans. They sound quite intriguing, and he doesn’t miss the chance to bash Google. Over to Steve: Android Man Leads ‘Person of Year’ Voting Light Reading Mon, 06 Oct 2008 7:34 AM PDT Early voting in this year’s Leading Lights “Person of the Year” reader survey voting has put Andy Rubin, senior executive director of mobile platforms at Google (Nasdaq: GOOG – message board ), ahead of the pack, but it’s a slender lead that could easily be overturned.

Synaptics puts touch in Google cell phones Fort Wayne Journal Gazette Mon, 06 Oct 2008 3:03 AM PDT SANTA CLARA, Calif. – The first of the “Google phones” is controlled using a method that is finally gaining momentum in mobile computing: swiping a finger across the screen. Photo caption: The T-Mobile G1 Android-powered phone is the first cell phone with the operating system designed by Google Inc. It uses touch-screen technology. Photo by Associated Press

Give Android a Spin Online [Android] Lifehacker Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:25 PM PDT Curious about how Google’s upcoming mobile phone operating system Android will work? Give it a spin on a free online G1 Android emulator on T-Mobile’s web site. Not all features in the emulator work,…