When it comes to the iPhone, the advantages of jailbreaking are fairly self-explanatory; if you’re not familiar, you can check out our post on iPhone jailbreaking.

 The Google Android mascot and brand is getting a lot of coverage in mobile telecom carrier TV ads lately.  Although the name Android and the little green Android robot is not a household name yet, it may soon be if the current trend of showing him in commercials around the world by the telco's.  

The latest Android ads to appear are from Korea's Korean SK Telecom.  They are very short but still fun and cool. 

UPDATE: A last minute bug has delayed the update.  More info here.  New date is TBD. 

Cspan is calling Martin Cooper the most influential person that you have never heard about.  If you do not know (and most people don't) he of course invented the cellular telephone.

A few hours ago, Google, send an email out to select Android developers offering them a free Nexus One phone.  Not all developers got the email though, developers that have an application with more than 5,000 downloads and maintaining a 3.5 star rating in the Android marketplace. 

Eric Schmitt, CEO of Google announced at his keynote presentation at the Mobile World Congress, in Barcelona this week that it’s Google Android operating system is now shipping 60,000 phones per day.  

Google announced their newest app that may totally change the way we shop for products in the future.  Google Shopper

Google announced today that an update will be pushed to Nexus One phones over the air. This will include "pinch to zoom" functionality in the browser and certain Google apps on the phone. It appears that all android phones won't benefit from this just yet and it will be down to carriers to implement it on all Android devices.

It looks like Google's Android is serious about catching up to the established and polished iPhone user experience. It should be a fun battle to watch!

Here is a video with the new pinch to zoom function in action, see it below.

You are through figuring out how your new Droid works and have added all your contacts and now you are ready for all the fun stuff.

There are about 20,000 apps out there for the Android platform now, obviously it is impossible to cover them all in one sitting.  Here is a nice list that should get you started or if you are an expert Android user then hopefully you find a few that you didn’t know about!