Seems so. Google’s ambitious platform is going to team up with HTC and T-Mobile to launch the product, possibly as early as October 2008 in in the US. The proposed phone is said to have a 5/3 inches screen along with a five-row slide-out keyboard and a 3 mp camera. And of course, 3G connectivity. The proposed/supposed smartphone, however, will be pretty bulky, it seems.

Look and feel wise, however, it looks like this Google-HTC-T-Mobile trio is even trying to compete with the iPhone. And then there is the App Store where developers are enjoying full freedom. The “Androidsphere” is propagating an image that is strangely contradictory to Google’s famous transparent and developer-friendly image.

Just a thought, which is a winning model one OS tailored for one hardware  and many applications (Mac -iPhone-App Store), or one OS tailored for many hardwares as well as many applications (Android - HTC/and many more-and who knows what store)?  What’s your take?