We just bought a G1 in New York to send to Sydney, but before that our man Johnny Makkar had a look at it. See what he wrote here, it was a pretty popular article linked to many others.

Lots of clients are asking about Android now, usually in the same context as iPhone apps. If you do one or the other do an iPhone app, but really the important thing is to design a good, useable application. Once you have done that an android app or iPhone app or mobile site are just ways to communicate that to people using different technologies.

We used to have to do this to an extent with the Java mobile apps that we made – making 20+ versions to deal with the idiosynchracies was not uncommon. Where people are going mad is they are discussing technologies wen they should be discussing the value that the content will provide on mobile. In this respect the more important questions are:

• what content do you want to make available on mobile?
• Why use mobile? why is it an appropriate medium (two examples are 1) because the content is needed on the move when you are not in front of your PC, or 2) because you need to get the content or information that second)
• How will I make it as useable experience as possible. Design! think not just about the screen size, but the mindset of the user when they are interating. 

A note on the G1 phone. looks cool, but iPhone is still way prettier. A nicer piece of design trumps technology any day. Thats why the pink Motorola Razr sold so many – I can just imagine the engineers snigering at the marketing person’s suggestion that making it pink will sell more than some piece of functiaonlity. Well sucked in engineers!