The world has a second Android mobile phone, it comes from Motorola and Orange will sell it in the UK.
This is likely to be the first in a number of high profile Android handset launches before the end of the year.
We know that Samsung, LG and, who knows even Sony Ericsson, may be lining up 2009 launches.
Android phone sales in the US have been matching that of the iPhone, and that was with one supplier in the market, Taiwanese firm HTC.
With the Google name behind it, Android has already turned heads, but now with Motorola entering the market, with others likely to follow, then we will see what the true potential of the unashamedly open source approach to mobile phone design can achieve.
Motorola's handset, the Dext/Motoblur in the UK, which was announced today in San Francisco, is clearly playing to the web-based strengths of Android by offering synching of contacts, posts, feeds, messages, e-mails, photos and more--from sources such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Gmail and Yahoo.
Orange will sell the Android handset in the UK and France, Telefonica in Spain.
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