{"id":5250,"date":"2008-09-17T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T07:12:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-09-17T09:12:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T07:12:00","slug":"google-dream-cell-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/5250-google-dream-cell-phone.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Dream cell phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is to launch the first mobile phone running its Android software next week in a joint initiative with T-mobile, the companies said on Tuesday (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/photos\/showphoto.php\/photo\/6312\" target=\"_blank\">Google HTC Dream image<\/a>&nbsp;and latest <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/photos\/showphoto.php\/photo\/6327\" target=\"_blank\">Google HTC Dream photo<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The open-source Android system is seen as Google&#8217;s answer to Apple&#8217;s successful iPhone and as a key initiative in the Internet giant&#8217;s quest to extend its dominance to the mobile web. <\/p>\n<p>Google has worked closely with US carrier T-mobile and Taiwan electronics maker HTC to develop the new phone, which is to be called Dream. <\/p>\n<p>According to The Wall Street Journal, the Dream will have a large touch screen, a swivel-out keypad and a trackball for navigation. The Dream will also feature a built-in 3 megapixel camera, a music player and purpose-built access to Google services like Gmail, Maps, and Search. <\/p>\n<p>The launch announcement gave no pricing details or availability dates. But press reports said that the Dream would go on sale to existing T-mobile customers later this month for $149 (about R1 200), with delivery expected in mid October.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=135978\"><strong>Google HTC Dream discussion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is to launch the first mobile phone running its Android software <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}