T-mobile’s Android HTC Dream gets pictured, launch soon
With a recent approval by the FCC, the HTC Dream is scheduled to land on T-mobile before year’s end. While the Dream is slimmer than the iPhone 3G, the biggest mystery up until this point has been the device layout. Thanks to the Android Community we finally see the big picture, complete with a five-row QWERTY keyboard, a home and menu button and a trackball.
An interesting piece of information is that both an ‘Android OS’ logo as well as a ‘with Google’ logo are displayed on the back of the HTC Dream. With T-mobile myFaves support, and 3G connectivity for T-mobile’s AWS 1700MHz spectrum things are looking very bright for the number 4 US carrier. Current speculation puts the HTC Dream launch for existing T-mobile customers (pre-release) in a little over 2 weeks, with a national launch following in about 6 weeks.
Pre-release sales date: September 17, 2008
Official nationwide launch date: October 13, 2008
T-mobile HTC Dream (G1) powered by Android:
528Mhz Qualcomm 7201 processor Data kit for USB connectivity in the box 64MB Internal RAM 128MB Internal ROM 1GB MicroSD card 5 Row QWERTY keypad Trackball 3.1MP camera (no flash) 2048 x 1536 Video playback files - H.264, streaming, 3GPP, MPEG4, and Codec 3GP Dedicated YouTube Player Audio playback files - MP3, AAC, AAC+, WMA, MPEG4, WAV, MIDI, REAL AUDIO, OGG Speakerphone (mono, natch) Ringtones (MP3, AAC, AAC+, WMA) HTTP, WAP Push, xHTML Bluetooth (class 1) Picture Caller ID POP, IMAP, and SMTP, AOL, and GMAIL email AIM, MSN, YAHOO, and GTALK messaging Quad Band (850, 900, 1800, 1900) 3G 802.11b & 802.11g UMTS (1,4), HSDPA, SUPL 1150mAh...
