Radical Openness’ on the Google Phone — At Least For Now
It was a busy day for Sergey Brin in Manhattan. First he helped introduce the New York version of Google Transit. Then he rollerbladed 20 blocks north and west to the unveiling of the new HTC G1 phone, the first that uses Google’s Android phone software.
Someone at Google must not have searched for what happens on the East Side of New York in late September — the neighborhood was clogged as limousines shuttled dignitaries around for the opening of the United Nations session. Mr. Brin said he found that even on rollerblades, his path was blocked.
Blocking anything, however, was not on the agenda at the press event, held in a cavernous space under the 59th Street Bridge. Executives of Google, HTC and T-Mobile, the first carrier to introduce the phone, used the word “open” more often than a gaggle of pediatric dentists.