Android Community has just been invited to an event that will see the launch of the first Android powered T-Mobile smartphone. The press conference will be on September 23rd at 10:30AM EDT and we’ll be Live Blogging the whole event, together with bringing you hands-on photos of the new Android device from a live product demonstration.
The cellphone we expect to see officially unveiled is HTC’s Dream, which is believed to be branded the T-Mobile G1. The September 23rd event ties in with the previously leaked suggestion that the carrier would be announcing their Android handset on this date, with availability by the end of October.
Both T-Mobile and Google executives will be presenting the G1, and we’ll have all the details as they happen. The Live Blog address is http://Live.AndroidCommunity.com/ so join us on September 23rd!
The first live photos of a T-Mobile branded HTC Dream handset have shown up online, confirming the speculation that the US carrier is preparing to announce an Android-powered smartphone. Believed to be called the G1, the white handset has the five-row QWERTY keyboard, side-sliding display and broad “chin” section the previously leaked engineering diagrams suggested.
Technical details of the handset are still unconfirmed, but if the rumors are to be believed it will run a 528Mhz Qualcomm 7201 processor with 64MB RAM and 128MB ROM. Storage is suggested as an included 1GB MicroSD card, which seems on the small side considering the media credentials: a 3.1-megapixel camera (sadly without a flash) and playback of H.264, streaming, 3GPP, MPEG4 and 3GP video.
While T-Mobile, HTC and Google are all tight-lipped on availability details, the G1 is predicted to launch on October 13th, 2008 for the subsidized price of $199. Existing subscribers to the carrier will apparently be able to preorder the G1 from September 17th.
[via Android Community]
What’s with the last-year’s pop-out manual keyboard, no virtual keyboard. Demo of the touch screen I saw online – yuck! Was hoping this was at least close to on-par with the iPhone’s. If the iPhone is touch-screen 2.0, this is neg. – 4.0. None of the cool intuitive screen controls, all lame icon buttons, no virtual keyboard, clunky manual pop-out keyboard. Wow, this is bad, particularly when they have been looking at the competiton’s for how long – and this is the best they can do?
well thats the beauty of the android platform someone can create a program enabling a virtual keyboard and people can load it on their phones for free..this is deff. gonna be the iphone killer..but not so much a At&t killer as they will soon adopt android when they see the powers it will unleash on the mobile world..so tmobile is where its at..for now that is
I don’t think the phone is all that! Powered by Google instead of Windows? #$%^! Sprint is coming with a beauty, the HTC Touch Pro. T-Mobile should work on bringing the HTC HD to attrack more people! I’ve been a T-Mobile customer for more than 5 yrs and i’m leaving to Sprint because of the lack of new phones for my needs and how slow their internet is. Even with their 3G now is still limited in some areas!
HTC Touch Pro with Sprint Oct 19!
@DC:
LOL, I was with Sprint for 8 years and left them for T-Mobile (G1) because of their sucky phones… Have fun with Sprint, paying for software and speaking to middle eastern women with fake american names.. *ahem* I mean customer support.