Google Phone Gallery Helps You Compare Android Phones
Back when Google was still selling the Nexus One themselves and not through carrier partners, they used the domain www.google.com/phone. It almost made the Nexus One that much better when you could direct someone to that URL and have them see it. But this was back when Google sold this phone themselves.
Now they couldn’t let that link go to waste could they? As they promised, they’ve now turned it into what they’re calling Google Phone Gallery. They list various countries including Canada and have the various carriers and manufacturers, letting you compare phones.
Phone Gallery is new so the phone list is definitely not complete yet, At least as far as Canada goes. But eventually this will be a great database to showcase Android phones. This will make it easy to see which Android phones are on which carrier and help the buying decision for many that are interested.
They also have a section reserved for “Phone with Google.” This is the definition Google gives for those phones:
“with Google phones have been optimized for use of Google Mobile Services, providing easy access to Search, Voice Search, Google Talk, Google Maps, Gmail, Sync, Youtube and Android Market (where available).”
This list has been changing over the past few days but currently, they have the Motorola Milestone as the only phone in there. If I understand it correctly, this might be phones that don’t run a custom UI and run Android 2.0+? I believe that requirement would make the Milestone fit perfectly in that category. The HTC Magic should be in there as well but Google stil lists it as running 1.6 even though the 2.1 update is already out for Rogers customers.
Let’s hope they keep improving on this. Check it out!
