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Google phone, BlackBerry and iPhone set for Christmas battle

A mobile phone handset battle is likely this Christmas as Google launches its first-ever mobile and BlackBerry brings out a touch screen model.

Apple’s market-leading iPhone is set for a serious challenge as Google’s G1 and the BlackBerry Storm boost a clutch of new features, including a high-definition screen and applications which teach owners how to play the guitar and mix perfect cocktails.

The G1, which runs Google’s Android operating system - designed to turn the phone into a pocket computer, will hit the shops on Thursday. T-Mobile, which has the exclusive rights to sell the phone in the UK, will open its flagship Oxford Street store in the early hours of the morning so commuters can snap up the phone on the way into work.

Customers queued through the night outside T-mobile’s New York store when it was launched in America on Tuesday.

BlackBerry-makers Research in Motion are also set to launch their phone, which boosts a movie-quality screen and memory capable of storing hundreds of films, in the run-up to Christmas.

It will be exclusively available with Vodafone.

Traditional heavyweights Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson have also entered the battle with slew of new handsets and services to tempt consumers.

Apple, which has sold more than 10million iPhones so far this year, is confident its device will still be the bestseller this Christmas.

The Daily Telegraph has released its own news widget for Google phones, allowing users to get one-touch access to the latest news, sport and travel headlines.

[Thanks: http://www.telegraph.co.uk]

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