Rim Blackberry Curve
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For over a year, all the buzz on the tech blogs was Google's upcoming open source mobile operating system, Google Android, to compete with the Apple iPhone OS, Windows Mobile, Symbian, and the RIM BlackBerry OS, among others.

Recently the long-anticipated first smartphone to run on this new mobile operating system, the first  Google Phone as it were, was put out by HTC in the T-Mobile G1 (also seen as G-1). For a while now, the HTC G1 was the only smartphone you could buy that ran on Google's proprietary new open source mobile OS.

But no longer.

Kogan, an Australian company, has unveiled the Agora, only the second smartphone device in the world to run on Google Android. And even though the manufacturer is Australian, the company has already announced that it will be more than happy to ship the Kogan Agora anywhere in the world that desires it.

The Agora is a tablet-shaped device that resembles a blocky BlackBerry (pre-Curve). So that means it has a full QWERTY keyboard on the face, albeit with tiny keys, and 2.5" QVGA touch screen.

It has 256 MB of memory with 128 MB Flash storage as well as a microSD expansion card slot. The battery time is reported to last for as many as 300 hours on standby and 400 minutes of talk time. The Agora does have Bluetooth 2.0 along with EDR, but it only comes with built-in WiFi and GPS if you purchase the Kogan Agora Pro. The Pro version of the Agora also comes with a 2-megapixel camera, which the regular Kogan Agora does not.

A welcome relief to customers loyal to their wireless carrier, according to Kogan, the Agora will be supported on many of the world's most popular carriers, including T-Mobile and AT&T.

The Kogan Agora will ship as of January 29, 2009, unlocked with tri-band UMTS/HSDPA and quad-band GSM, for $300 AUS or $194 USD not including shipping (which will bring it to $223 USD).

In the meantime HTC, the maker of the inaugural Google Phone, has just acquired a design house in order to make its devices more fashionable, stylish, and trendy. The aim is to make HTC the smartphone market leader in the look and feel department.

The firm, named One & Co, counts among its roster of former clients: Apple, Nike, TiVo, Jansport, and Microsoft. A One & Co exec said that it plans to bring its "lifestyle, user-focused approach" to HTC's line of products. Already it's been involved in the creation of the HTC S740, the HTC Touch Pro, and the HTC Touch Diamond.

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