T-Mobile just debuted the first phone to run on Google's Android operating system, the HTC Dream rebranded as the T-Mobile G1.

The bare bones info is that it will be available October 22 for $179 with a two year contract. It features a 3-inch touchscreen, QWERTY keyboard, 3.1 mega-pixel camera, Wi-Fi, trackball, 5 hours of talk time, and a 1GB MicroSD card installed with the capacity for up tp 8GB of MicroSD memory.  

Okay we now know the secret mobile project Google was working on was the Android open source operating system; not the much rumored "Google Phone". But if you needed any additional proof think about this:

First of all, let's just set the record straight, for months I've been saying there's no such thing as a "Google Phone"; it would be a ridiculous conflict of interest for Google's larger business interests.

Photo thanks to McClendon Corporation

Maybe it’s just a fake out, but two Google executives just made separate statements casting serious doubt that the Google Phone does or will ever exist.

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Google phone rumors are a little like Loch Ness Monster sightings, you get the picture that something’s going on, but it’s way to blurry to figure out exactly what.

Photo thanks to Yahoo.

A couple of days ago I wrote in a blog how eventually the entire internet would be available on a cell phone- how’s now for you?

According to David Smith from the Observer (I know guys, it's the UK, but soon enough in a store near you...) Google and Orange are thinking about producing a Google-branded cellphone that would come pre-loaded with mobile versions of Google apps like Google Earth, Gmail, etc. The "Google phone" would be manufactured by HTC, which implies - but doesn't guarantee - that this thing might run Windows Mobile.