Google held a Developer Day at Wembley Stadium, and Mike Jennings showed a “Google phone”. According to TechRadar, it “looked very much like the HTC Dream, but had its branding covered up.”

The most important – there will be no attempt to lock down the phone system to prevent people running whatever applications they like as Microsoft and Apple does.

“The cool stuff is running your own apps!” said Jennings. “I spent two hours writing my own apps using a background thread and surface view to access the hardware buffer.”