Firefox may have found a warm fuzzy spot in many web-savvy users’ hearts, but I’m completely blown away by the new browser Google Chrome. Google Chrome was pretty much unknown to the public until yesterday, when details emerged on Blogoscoped.

Google has apparently sent out comic books in the mail. The 38-page teaser illustrated by Scott McCloud demonstrates everything Chrome is about. The main concept is to be extremely simple, which is pretty much Google’s overall philosophy. The other concept is that web applications can be launched from desktop bookmarks in standalone windows. Google has coined this feature “Google Gears.”

Today the Chrome beta came out and you can download it yourself to try it out. I’m actually writing this post in Chrome.

So far only one word comes to my mind when I think of Google Chrome: amazing. The interface is beautifully simple. What are your thoughts, a potential Firefox killer?

Two weeks ago we saw a Youtube video of HTC’s “Dream” – the first phone to run on Google’s Android platform. As the presumed release date draws near (sometime in the next month or two), we’re bound to be seeing more leaked images before an official press release. Anyway, here are some pretty high quality (in comparison to the Youtube video) spy photos of it. At least for a little while anyway, this thing will only be a dream in my Google-loving head.

[Engadget]

T Mobile will be the first carrier of Googles much hyped Android mobile platform on September 17. The phone to debut Android will be HTCs “Dream” (name has not been officially announced). The “Dream features a full touch screen, just like the iPhone, but that’s not all. The screen slides away just like T Mobile’s famous “Sidekick” to reveal a full, 5-row QWERTY keyboard.

The phone will also have

• a 3 x 5 inch screen
• 3G connectivity
• and a 3 megapixel camera

T Mobile also seems to be going with a strange pricing strategy – $150 in the first week, then increasing to $250 and $400 each week after that.

Here’s a YouTube video thought to be of the HTC “Dream”:

Step aside iPhone, there’s a new player in town.

[NYT]