Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

It's now official, and the G1 actually looks pretty impressive. It will run $179 in the states with a 2 year contract. The contract sucks of course, but that subsidization is how these things work. The data plan looks reasonable - "400 messages and unlimited data access for $25 a month—or add unlimited messaging for just $10 more a month."

The offical HTC site has all the technical scoop.

And, it's making the rounds on the gadget blogs too.

Right now the app store is getting some static for letting "anyone" submit an app - but I think that's great, rather than a problem. It's supposed to be an open market. Useful and highly rated apps will float to the top, crappy ones will sink - survival of the fittest (this model works, really). Also the nature of the droid platform will help, apps can't take over the device and must live within a well defined life-cycle and respond within specified time frames, or they are terminated. The whole thing won't lock up for a crappy app, the user will know it's a crappy app, uninstall it, and move on - no cluster at all. I find this model *a lot* more appealing than an arbitrarily controlled locked down "store" where apps are "approved" and or "removed" without rhyme or reason.