Google’s expanding Gmail’s features by adding a bit of VoIP functionality to it. Whereas heretofore, you can only use Gchat to, well, chat; in the coming weeks, you’ll be able to use it just like how you can use Skype, for example.

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After yesterdays collection of leather cases for the T-Mobile G1 Google Android handset, here’s the list of accessories for the device also known as the HTC Dream here in Mr. Gadget Australia. First up is the car charger that plugs into a car’s cigarette lighter for some in-car charging.

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Just a few days ago, the T-Mobile G1 got jailbroken, removing limits imposed upon an already open-source operating system. Since it IS open-source, it was easier for hackers to get through the inner workings of the phone and work on a jailbreak.

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You’d think that with details about it leaking all over the internet, that Motorola’s Android-based phone would come soon. It seems that even the purported Asus Android-based phone would come even earlier than Motorola’s.

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Local electronics manufacturer Kogan, announced plans to make a Google Android-based phone to be distributed in the country. The small online-based company orders its products straight from manufacturers in China, which are made to its specifications and cater to its needs.

Kogan’s Google Android phone “would look similar to the iPhone” with a touch screen panel, Bluetooth, GPS, trackball, WiFi, and NO built-in keyboard. It will be available in the country on December 15 and will be sold for $199 per. Since none of the major manufacturers have mentioned plans to release Google Android phones in Australia, Kogan’s MIGHT be the first Android-based phone to hit the country.

“We’ve got a few designs that we can easily choose from. We know the components that’s going to go into the phone…It’s a matter of loading the Android system on to the phone, configuring it, making sure it works very well and then the manufacturing of the few thousands phones that we need to launch it is just a matter of a day or two,” says Ruslan Kogan, company owner.

Kogan via SMH via GIZ AU

This is what a lot of people from all over the world might have been waiting for – the moment the T-Mobile G1 or the HTC Dream gets unlocked. From what I’ve heard, there’s an abundance of the first Google Android handset for sale on Ebay, but it’s useless if it can’t be used in other networks, especially in countries outside the USA.

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It was only a matter of time before more handset makers announce they’re jumping onto the Google Android bandwagon. After LG, Samsung, Nokia and Motorola, Asus announced that it’s coming up with its own version of a Google Android phone soon.

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Hop-on, maker of phones for developing nations as well as pioneer of that disposable phone I’m sure you’ve heard of one time or another, promises something new in the months to come. According to the company’s press release, Hop-on is coming up with its own Google Android-based phone.

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Coinciding with T-Mobile G1’s beginning of shipment is the launch of the Android Market that’s Google’s version of the Apple App Store. The Android Market will sell applications for the Google Android operating system, of course, that will no longer be mean just the G1 in the near future.

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Have you ever wondered how the face of the internet changed for the last seven years? I was already blogging during that time, but I didn’t even know the word “blog.” Back in 2001, the iconic iPod and youtube meant nothing and Mr. Gadget Australia didn’t even exist.

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