Google 411 -- good stuff! (And Google Android)

Google is now providing a new 411 service that is entirely free! Screw using the phone company service with all those fees!

There's a YouTube video demo available, too. It's pretty darn easy!

Also, Google released the so-called "gPhone" this week. It runs their Android platform, which will attempt to become an open platform that can be used by vendors on any handset. Here's some YouTube videos on that: 1 (older), 2, and 3. Right now the only "Android powered" phone is available through T-Mobile and they have virtually no service where I live out "in the country," so I won't be getting a G1, but I do believe it's the first serious competitor to the iPhone and I believe the Android platform could be the basis of many wonderful cell phones of the future. If it's available, I will look to get an Android-based phone for my next cell. If it's not available, I suspect it will have been abandoned by then . . . But I think those Google geniuses just might pull it off! ;-)