7. The Googlephone arriveth.

The iPhone’s presumptive archrival debuted in purchasable form when T-Mobile started selling the G1, the first phone based on Google’s open-source Android operating system. The critical reception? Promising OS with some holes, blah hardware. Google’s strategy is the flipside of Apple’s tight control over the iPhone experience: It wants to see lots of different Googlephones from multiple companies. So the only grade you can give Android based on the G1 alone is this one: Incomplete.