Seth H. Weintraub

Even though the Nexus One has had a slow start on Tmobile, you have to believe that the current flagship Android phone will have a little bit more success on AT&T...and Verizon... and now on Sprint.

That's right. You will soon be able to get a Google Nexus One on any of the four large US mobile networks. The carriers now have to compete to offer better service and lower prices to consumers. Something that is sorely lacking one such platform that I carry in my pocket daily.

Apple, if they needed a reason to go after HTC, and by proxy Google, may have had it in marketshare numbers. Android's growth has been pretty spectacular over the past few quarters highlighted by the graphs below from Quantcast, a web analytics firm.

I'd heard about this a few days ago but I finally had a chance to check it out this evening. Google's new mobile location based search is a pretty big deal. I was on the road looking for a coffee shop to do some work at in an area I wasn't familiar with. At a stop light, I whipped out my iPhone.

You simply open 'google.com' on your iPhone browser. Google will ask you if you want to use location in your searching. You give the browser permission to use the iPhone's GPS (or Cell tower triangulation in the original iPhones) and then you search like you normally would.

Here's an interesting scenario: If Google does stick to its guns and leaves China because the country continues to insist on censoring web search results and blocking websites, will it also pull Android cellphones from the Chinese market?

Just recently, Dell announced it would be carrying a Android based cell phone in China. If China is anything like the US, it will soon be flooded with Android phones from all over.

Google today announced the meat of its mythical G-drive, the Cloud hard drive in the sky for both regular Gmail users and corporate Apps users. While Google wasn't as ceremonious as my title, they've laid out what will eventually be their Google hard drive or G-drive.

"Now accessing your work files doesn't require a connection to your internal office network. Nor do you need to email files to yourself, carry around a thumbdrive, or use a company network drive – you can access your files using Google Docs from any web-enabled computer.

"Combined with shared folders in Google Docs, the upload feature is a great way to collaborate on files with coworkers and external parties. Instead of using cumbersome email attachments, you can upload files to a folder and share it with coworkers, who can then access and edit the files from a single place. You can even have your sales team securely share contracts with external clients for review."

The update is rolling out over the next few weeks and will allow you to store 1 GB of any type of file on your 'G-drive' for free. After that it will cost you $.25/per GB/year/

I've been racking my brain over the past couple of weeks trying to think of the biggest technology game-changer of 2009. I'd been looking for a product that not only changes technology this year, but one that will make a big change in the future.

This year wasn't so easy. In 2007, the biggest game-changer was the iPhone. In 2008, Apple's App Store was probably the biggest winner. This year, however, I believe the most important product isn't from Apple.

As more and more information and pictures of the Google Phone or Nexus 1 leak out, I am convinced that this is a game-changing event. But probably not for the reasons you are expecting.

Google's phone runs Android 2.1 which is pretty similar to what the Verizon/Motorola Droid runs (2.0.1) currently. The processor on the Google phone is certainly an update if it is a 1 GHz Snapdragon chip from Qualcomm as has been reported. The Droid has a physical keyboard and the Nexus does not. Depending on how you feel about physical keyboards, one or the other will suit you better - I am in the "no physical keyboard camp".

Gizmodo yesterday echoed an earlier report by TechCrunch stating that Google is hard at work on the "true Google Phone". A trusted source of theirs saw it with their own eyes and they say its release is a certainty.

Why would Google work by itself on a phone when it has already entered license agreements with a multitude of other handset providers and, by extension, carriers?

Microsoft's inability to ship Windows Mobile 7 is really doing damage to their Smartphone market share it seems. Even if Microsoft is able to ship Windows Mobile 7 soon, the damage might already be done.

The upstart Android OS, in its first year, is gaining on the decade old Windows Mobile (CE) platform according to new data provided by Gartner today.

Jeez, from the talk out there you'd think that Dell's just announced Mini 3 phone had no shot at success in China or Brazil. Dell, even though it hasn't been wildly successful over the past few years, still builds a lot of computers, including one of the thinnest and sexiest out there, the Adamo laptop line.

Their history in portable devices is less illustrious. They had the Dell DJ and Axiom lines which both didn't live up to expectations. However, the blame for those failures might be more on the OS than the hardware.

Google announced yesterday that they'd be offering holiday travelers free Wi-Fi Access at 47 airports from November 17th. Add to that Google has begun offering Internet on Virgin America flights for the holiday season today and you have quite the Christmas spirit from Google.

Up until now, Google's Voice service has been a bit of a piecemeal apparatus. You've needed regular land lines, a mobile number or another VOIP service for it to work. Today, if the rumors are true, Google becomes a full point to point VoIP provider.

Techcrunch says that Google is purchasing Gizmo5, a SIP VoIP provider. This is important gap that will bridge two of Google's platforms. Google Voice will obviously now have a mechanism for transferring all the way to your computer or smartphone, eliminating the need for a 3rd party to be involved in the transaction.