The new phone, although not the prettiest mobile, marks another avenue for Google.

The G1 will be available the day before Haloween from T-Mobile, free with a £40 per month contract, in the UK.

Google, already making headway into the browser market, although Chrome desperately needs some updates to keep interest high, is making it’s presence known in the mobile OS field with Android. Is Android a small stepping stone away from a fully featured OS? I think only Google can answer that, but it would make sense. Everything they do is in the cloud - so why not provide a thin client, for virtually nothing - if not completely free. It could serve up Google documents, mail, chat, video and all of the other services that we’re finding our online lives more and more dependant, directly from their servers, fully integrated into the desktop.