As an owner of a T-Mobile G1 I can share some of Google’s suggested (by others) disappointment with the relatively low-specced phones currently available but to start competing with manufacturers who have spent considerable sums adopting your operating system doesn’t really make much sense – it’s like Microsoft suddenly deciding to start selling their own range of desktop and laptop PCs while expecting Dell and HP to continue buying OEM licences for Windows.

Users of Google’s Android Market should soon be freed from browsing crude or profane comments after the search giant confirmed plans to add the ability for consumers to report questionable comments.