Android? Windows Mobile? Mobile Mac OS? BlackBerry OS?

It's all so confusing . . . as though we have to know the differences between one smartphone operating system and another in order to select the right business cell phone. It's not important. Remember. You heard it hear first. Google's Android mobile operating system is now showing up in phones of various descriptions from HTC, Motorola and others (real soon now) but should not distract you from making a purchasing decision for your business needs which is based on practicality rather than trendiness. Same goes for the iPhone. It's not a business phone, and it won't be one until such time as it grows a hardware keyboard. There are lots of choices, all of which sync with Outlook, install software which reads Microsoft Word/Excel/PowerPoint and PDF documents, browse the web, run GPS and so on. RIM BlackBerry, Nokia, Sony/Ericsson, HTC, Motorola and others all make excellent devices appropriate for a wide range of business applications. So when the sales rep calls from Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, ComCast, Rogers, Bell, Orange, BT, NTT DoCoMo, Vodafone or whichever, cut them off short and let them know that you're looking for value and functionality, not trends and cachet. The last thing you need these days is another wireless plan into which you have to sink even more money than the last plan. Sometimes too, the phone you've got now is the best one to have.

T-Mobile's Android Based G1, Jailbroken

It appears the Android-based G1 phone has been jailbroken. The G1 jailbreak is just the first step toward opening the system up. There will most likely be a full suite of Unix tools which will enable the customization of a whole range of features on the phone, including backgrounds and icons, custom apps and a whole lot more. Jailbreaking the G1 was relatively easy compared to the iPhone, which initially required remote access tools that emulated iTunes' mobile device management calls. By comparison, the G1 jailbreak is simple because it consists of using a Terminal program, starting a background process and issuing a few standard Unix commands. There will most likely be less fallout too because google are not as litigious or protectionary as Apple.