Video demo of T-Mobile’s MyTouch 3G with Google

July 11, 2009 | Dean Takahashi | Comments | |

mytouchHere’s a video demo of the T-Mobile MyTouch 3G with Google phone. It’s the latest phone based on the Android operating system developed by Google. I shot it today with Josh Lonn, director of product development for T-Mobile, at Friday’s preview event. The phone is available for preorder now and it comes out Aug. 5. Lonn showed off the basic feeatures of the cell phone, which is the second-generation Android phone from T-Mobile. Then he segued into a demo of Sherpa, the location-based software app from Geodelic. The app lets you see nearby stores or other points of interest — customized to your own taste — at a glance and then shows them to you on a Google Map.

[We'll be giving away one of these phones to a lucky winner at MobileBeat 2009, our mobile conference this coming Thursday, where we'll also have a couple of T-Mobile executives speaking. We're almost sold out, so move quickly.]

Video demo of T-Mobile MyTouch 3G with Google phone from Dean Takahashi on Vimeo.

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Dean is lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He covers video games, security, chips and a variety of other subjects. Dean previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News, the Wall Street Journal, the Red Herring, the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register and the Dallas Times Herald. He is the author of two books, Opening the Xbox and the Xbox 360 Uncloaked. Follow him on Twitter at @deantak, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat.

  • Chad
    Why is absolutely nobody the least concerned about handing over every shred of their lives to an advertising company? Is it because they give us shiny toys? If the landline phone companies or the government tried to gather as much data about us that google does via this handset, people would go ballistic. Why are we willing to hand over all this data to Google, and with very little oversight about what they will do with it?

    I don't walk around with a tinfoil hat, but I really am surprised that there is very little discussion about the privacy implications of an advertising company passing out tracking software. Think about the implications of using the location apps, and apps like the barcode scanner. Google is collecting data about where you go, where you shop, and the items you are shopping for. What happens when BestBuy or the car dealers start buying information from Google about the customers that visit. Imagine shopping for a car. The dealership gets a notification from Google that a customer that Google has data about is on their lot. They then can access the data about what cars you have been looking at online, what dealers you have been looking at online, as well as what other dealerships you have actually visited (provided by your trusty location based Android handset).

    As nice, shiny, toys go, Android seems fairly useful. However, we need to require greater privacy controls from Google and require accountability for exactly what they do with the data we provide.
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    that video shouldve said something about the messaging on that phone....fyi.