As you can see in the movie above, the Google co-branded phone will have a large touchscreen, a trackball for navigation and - thank you, thank you, thank you!!! - a swivel-out full keyboard. If this isn't enough to make it a capable "iPhone killer," here's something more...
...pricing of the HTC-manufacturered device, now also known as "The Dream," will be only $199, requiring a two-year service contract to be signed with T-Mobile upon purchase. Nothing special here, just as it happens with the iPhone but...this phone promises to be more than the iPhone, although it's also going to be quite different, as far as I see it.
The most interesting part about this Google-powered phone is that several applications of the Internet giant will run on it, such as Maps, hopefully GTalk , too, and a competitor to Apple's App Store should be ready in time for the 23rd of September launch. Obviously, the goal is to have a phone on the market and an online marketplace to allow its users to purchase or download free applications from a reliable source.
This may be the key to success for this device and for Google into the mobile world, considering that Apple's App Store has been pushing out apps lately without solid reasons, so... as long as the device sells in large enough numbers to draw the attention of a lot of developers to it, the Dream may become the first device capable to compete with the iPhone AND the App Store, not only with the App Store, as it's happening for all current iPhone 3G rivals.