Google Android Phone

Vodafone may be wary of Google’s foray into mobile phones, with the latter having no plans to bring the first Google Android powered handset, the 3G T-Mobile G1, into New Zealand.

But Parallel Imported Ltd – the scourge of official distributors or the champion of pushing new technology into the country, depending on your point of view – is keen to slake Kiwis’ thirst for Android.

Managing Director Chris Honore says he looking at brining the HTC Dream (HTC G1  without badging from its US carrier T-Mobile) into New Zealand. The likely release date would be sometime after the G1’s October 22 launch in the US. read[...]