Android made it’s big debut today, coverage is out there a plenty. Gizmodo has a few bits including a hands on with the new phone; T-mobiles G1

Check out there preview here

Basic features include:

The T-Mobile G1, it has both full touch-screen functionality, a QWERTY keyboard, a trackball for one-handed navigation, plus access to mobile Web applications like Google Maps Street View, Gmail, YouTube, and more.

First impressions clearly seem to indicate that while it’s not iPhone beater straight out the box it’s certainly a polished launch. The open source model early on certainly gives it plenty of potential in the application department, a feature that really sold me the iphone once it got rolling properly, there’s a lot of potential. But it’s great to see something actually coming out that good genuinely challenge the Iphones dominance in it’s field.