Android news site Android Authority is reporting that T-Mobile is planning to offer the new T-Mobile G1 phone with free access to Google’s Gmail service.
The G1 (aka the HTC Dream) is the first on the market to offer Google’s open source mobile OS. If true, G1 owners will be able to pick up their mail via Google without any charge to their data tariff.
The service is expected to be ad-supported, but then so is the desktop version of GMail. In fact, the ads are pretty low-key compared to other ‘free’ email providers. Could this be the secret weapon that will boost the Android pone, and give Google a nice jolt of ad revenue into the bargain?
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