T-Mobile CTO Cole Brodman says at the Open Mobile Summit that T-Mobile will let customers pay for Android applications on their monthly mobile bills starting Nov. 17. On that day, T-Mobile will also launch the T-Mobile Channel on Android Market to recommend some of the Market’s apps to T-Mobile customers. Android Market currently hosts 12,000 applications, dwarfed by the 100,000 applications for Apple’s iPhone. Android’s growth is respectable for a platform that launched on smartphones little more than a year ago. The iPhone is a phenomenon no one has seen before in the nascent smartphone market.
– With Motorola Droid versus Apple iPhone stories dotting the world of wireless news,
T-Mobile’s CTO reminded everyone that the
first company to make a phone based on Google’s Android platform has its own
dogs in the smartphone race.
T-Mobile CTO Cole Brodman said at the
Open Mobile Summit Nov. …