First things first...

First, we had to lay our hands on a T1 developer phone. Having done that, it was a challenge getting it to work on the local networks. BSNL gave us so much trouble - you can get more if you talk to a wall. So we gave up on BSNL and switched to Airtel. So, Airtel it is for now. Now, a word on Airtels GPRS services - fast, blazing fast. We loved it. Customer service while way better than BSNL, could do with improvement. But that is as far as Indian cellphone networks go...

Coming back to the Gphone, this phone is nice - best of all it is open source. And it will develop its own set of fans. And why not. Just that the battery could be better than what it is today - especially when the GPRS is always on. And since then, we have been at it. Downloading apps, trying them out. Remember that this phone is not yet launched in India, but a phone like this has trememdous potential. It is not yet launched in India and that should happen anytime...

The app market is a treat. There are hundreds and thousands of apps for you to chose from. Games, Recipes, Finance and what have you. And the phone reaffirms something - Software is king in this phone. Don't like something? Go ahead and customise it, change it, the way you would want it. And that is unlike any cellphone by and large - though by now most cellphones are going the open source way and the applications way. 

So, join us on the Android journey...As they say, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.