Over the past week or so several web sites have leaked photos of the next Android phone, Nextus One.  This phone has been given to Google employees to start using and may very well be available at retail in a couple weeks.  The phone is being advertised as a iPhone G3 killer with a flash camera, 4GB flash card that is upgradeable to 32GB, and it's thinner and faster that the G3.  

There has been a lot of talk about what kind of phone this new device would be.  So far it looks like it might run on the T-Mobil network but it may not matter.  The phone may come unlocked so that it will be available for any phone network.  There has been some talk as well of it be a Voice over IP (VOIP) phone with no need for a voice contract. I think this is probably the future of cell phones.  VOIP has been made familiar by companies like Comcast and Vonage which offer phone service over their high speed internet network.  

With the recent release of several Google Android phones it will be interesting to see how that platform grows.  Before you could only get a android phone on T-Mobil but now they are available on Sprint and Verizon.  If Google makes the Nexus One open to any network it could seriously cut into Apple's lead on smart phones.  It will be interesting to see consumers will turn on Apple and move towards the Google phones that have an open app store and probably the best developers in the world.

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