offline gmail

Google demonstrated how gmail can be accessed offline along with its features such as search etc enabled on an iphone. This doesnt require any iphone specific software to be installed. Instead it makes use of HTML to enable this features. This is how it has challenged Apple allowing iphone uses to make use of Google's features at no extra cost. If the same was enabled though a software then apple would have taken a roality for making the application available on its apple store, but this wont be the case.

However, this has not been released in the open market. Anyway, we can expect it to hit the market very soon. Google demonstated this feature recently on iphone and Android G1

paid apps on android market

Paid android apps are to be available in the android market very soon. Google has announced that android developers can now put a price tag on the applications that they develop and post the same in android market.

More android phones inline

It looks like more android phone will make it to the markets this year. LG and Huawei has already announced that they going to come up with their android phone. While LG is remodelling one of its old phones (middle range phone) on android platform Huawei is going to launch android with one of their phones which looks very similar to iphone. We can expect these phones to be launched on the 3rd quarter of 2009. The extensible platform android has also forced some companies to think of introducing android on low end notebooks.