On Wednesday this week the Google Phone, also called the T-Mobile G1, was finally released. Two of my blogging colleagues have already mentioned the T-Mobile G1. It is one of the many iPhone competitors, but more importantly, it comes from Google, a company to be reckoned with.

As Dian mentioned at GottaHave: “The G1 runs best on T-Mobile’s 3G network“. So the G1 is the phone, and 3G is the name of the network – in fact it refers to a 3rd Generation data network. The previous generation data network was called EDGE, and not 2G, which just adds to the confusion.

Of course, the G1 is not the only 3G phone around. There’s the AT&T Tilt, 3G iPhone and the Palm Treo Pro Smartphone along with a whole long list of other cellphones.

Reviews of the T-Mobile G1 Google phone have been mixed, with some reviewers saying that the phone is only for “early adopters”. They do admit though that it is only the first Google Android phone – that is the first phone to feature Google’s Android Operating System. Unlike the Operating System on the iPhone, Android is “Open” – The Android Developer community has a large say about the applications on the G1, not Google.