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Today's the day, the T-Mobile G1 is coming. Our brand new baby sister site, Android Central, is covering the big news in rapid blog-post-style. If you're fearing that Android is going to take down Windows Mobile, well, we're a little sympathetic. We suppose it's worth noting that Windows Mobile hardware can run Android, actually, it's already been done on the Tilt.

We recommend you check out this quality article at PC Mag by Sascha Segan, which argues fairly convincingly that it's not Windows Mobile that need be afraid, it's feature phones. Android probably won't be feature-competitive with WM (at least for awhile, anyway), but a free and extensible OS is just what the crappy UI on your standard free phone needs. So there's some breathing room there, Microsoft, though we hope you're using it to push Windows Mobile 7 out the door more quickly before it becomes hyper-ventilation room.

Anyhow, welcome is due to our new kid sister blog, Android Central. Go on and give her a noogie.

Samsung does it. Palm does it. Motorola still (barely) has its head above water. HTC is doing better than just about everyone else. HP. Velocity. Toshiba. MWg. The list goes on.

Now, according to Digitimes [via], Acer is set to launch its own brand of smartphones in Q1 of 2009. The first devices would be released in Western Europe and Russia.

Windows Mobile isn't specifically mentioned, though it's a pretty good bet, considering the source.

And it's been a couple of months since we've reported any rumors of Dell getting back into the smartphone game, so here goes:

Michael Dell recently told Engadget Mobile that they eventually could be producing "smaller and smaller devices that have capabilities of the [iPhone]."

There. Feel better? Us, too.

Ariel points us to take a gander at the D-1100 from Indian manufacturer Spice Mobile [via]. It looks like a pretty standard Windows Mobile Pro device -- with a 320x240 touchscreen on WM 6.0, a standard 10 key keypad, a 2mp camera, and a 1340mAh battery. Looks can be deceiving.

The D-1100 may be EDGE-only, but it has two EDGE radios and SIM card slots for the both of them. One supports 850/900/1800/1900 bands and the other 900/1800. What's cool is that it's able to have both sim cards active simultaneously -- although only one of them will be able to access data and mms. Why would you want this? Travel. Hit up a foreign land, buy yourself a local SIM card and put it in the main slot for cheaper data, take your current SIM card and put it in the secondary slot so you don't have to worry about forwarding your calls and missing your texts.

Finding one will be pretty tough, but it should only put you back around 17,000 Indian Rupees, or somewhere just south of $400 US dollars.

Thanks, Ariel!

If you don

Allow us to pick up where the latest WM Experts podcast left off with the HTC Touch HD and simply say the following:

Mmmmmmmmm. ... Pixels.

CNET Asia [via] brings us a quick snap of the Touch HD alongside its Diamond and Pro cousins. Remember: It's not that the HD, on the left, is that huge - it's the exact same size as the iPhone. It's just that the Diamond is that tiny.

They then follow up with some shots of the Opera browser in all of its 480x800 glory, the 3.5mm headphone jack, and a thickness comparison between the three.

Check it all out here. Then leave us some advice in the comments as to how we're possibly going to be able to wait for this guy to arrive.

One of the things we hate most about these cell phone companies is their stupid contracts. We know the some companies are lowering their early termination fees, but still think we shouldn

The Internets have been a bit atwitter over what in most cases would be considered a major delay for Mozilla's Firefox Mobile browser, with 2010 reported to be the latest launch target.

But The Unwired has received some clarification - an Alpha pre-version is possible by the end of 2008, and a final product "well before" 2010.

From Mozilla's Mitchell Baker at blog.lizardwrangler.com:

I saw one press article wondering if including “have an effective product in the mobile space” in our 2010 goals means that we won’t ship something interesting until 2010. That is not the case at all. We will ship well before then. The intent of this goal was to say: in 2010 when we look at where we are, it should be screamingly obvious that we’ve done this. That means releasing a good product much sooner, seeing good results and acceptance, and seeing those results grow over time.

That's obviously good news if you're waiting for browsing alternative. It will be interesting to how the final product (check out an early look here) stands up to the likes of Skyfire, Opera 9.5, and Google's Chrome, which are all quickly distancing themselves from the standard IE mobile browser.