I must say that I am excited. I am stoked because I love my iPhone but an only Apple world is scary, now we have a challenger. The so called iPhone killers I have seen until now were lots of hype but basically not iPhone killers. Google’s G1 isn’t necessarily a killer either but it is a nice alternate. An choice let us say. And now that there is one there will be more.

Co-developed with T-Mobile, this new handset will the first mobile device powered by Google’s open-source Android operating system. Like the iPhone, this new device will offer a large touch screen similar to the iPhone, a 3.0-megapixel camera with photo-sharing capability, a trackball, a slide-out keyboard and easy access to Google’s email and mapping programs.

As the video here shows it is a very, very intergrated with Google experience…

Will people want to be so stuck to Google.. not just search but Mail, Calendar, Talk ? That is certainly what Google hopes. Obviously they are leveraging this to get people to abandon their old solutions and use only Google’s. But it remains to be seen if it will really work. Not so different then Apple after all..

The device will be available at T-Mobile stores and online in the U.S. beginning Oct. 22, with a price tag of $179 with a two-year voice and data agreement. It will hit Europe shortly thereafter.

Here are some other shots that show the phone at different angles :

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