HTC Dream pre-sale for T-Mobile on beginning September 17th?
We’ve been hearing a lot about Android recently, from delayed release dates to a video claiming to depict the fabled HTC Dream in action. What we haven’t heard, however, is anything specific about the public availability of the first Android devices to hit the streets. HTC and T-Mobile have been promising an Android-based device by the end of this year, but haven’t gone any further into the specifics. TmoNews is now claiming that the HTC Dream will, in fact, be the first Android device to reach our hands. The site is reporting that T-Mobile will begin offering the Dream via a special promotional pre-sale event beginning September 17th, which is just over a month from now. The device will reportedly cost $150 for current T-Mobile subscribers, though it could sell for as much as $399 when it goes on sale to the general public some time later. The phone itself will be code-named G1, and should resemble the device we saw in the video a couple days back. Slide out QWERT keyboard, 3G data, 5″ x 3″ touchscreen and 3.0 megapixel camera will all come standard, making it T-Mobile’s flagship device. It will require a data plan, which will reportedly run a bit north of the current $20 Total Internet add-on. Thankfully, it will also be offered in an array of colors, including white, black, and brown. Excited yet? We’ll have to wait until we get our hands on one, as the device in the video leak is a bit underwhelming, but if these specs and release date hold, T-Mobile and HTC might have a real contender on their hands. Oh yeah, you’ll also need a Gmail account to purchase one…
Yesssss go Tmo. Im getting rid of my Sk for this. Especially at its cheap price of 150?! I liked the iphone but the only thing i wanted on it was a full keyboard that didnt use up any of the screen. This phone is perfect to me :]
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underwhelming in design or not, skin the hell out of it. I’m more excited about all of the killer apps that will begin to surface for this thing. I know I’m gonna be sporting a Bold and this baby at the same time, just for the hell of it…. but certainly, excitement is abound. =)
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5 x 3 inch screen? That’s a diagonal of 5.8″. Riiiiiight…
So much for the plausibility of that rumor…
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I hope this handset *finally* has Tmobs AWS 3G bands on it.
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@dand:
“Slide out QWERT[Y] keyboard, 3G data, 5″x3″ touchscreen and 3.0 megapixel camera will all come standard, making it T-Mobile’s flagship device.”
Sound like it will have T-Mobiles 3G. Now all you need is to be in an area that has T-Mobiles 3G service. Which is almost non-existent until October. Right now only a few US cities have 3G service.
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I love how everything now is, Make everything cheaper than the cheapest iphone or face the consequences lol.
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It’s called competition. Despite the iPhone’s shortcomings and various other issues; Apple released one hell of a phone. Multitouch, minimalistic design & thin. That and it was overhyped to the absolute nines.
Well, it got people’s attention. So now everything is an “Apple Killer” or “iPhone Killer” or “suchandsuch’s answer to the iPhone.” Hate it or love it - the iPhone benefited a lot of people. Including the people that didn’t buy it.
It took the general direction phones were going and made it veer off-course to something new.
The competition now wants to compete - build a phone without the shortcomings of the iPhone with all the requisite features and make it cheaper, faster and better.
Competition is good.
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Not sure if I could deal with that QWERT keyboard.
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Yah!!!!
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@ MadMike
You know I didnt even read through the whole post, I’m such a tard. Im like half a sleep at work.
Anyways, I still hope more OEMs start putting Quad 3G radios in their phones. Would love a Nokia e90 that could use Tmobile’s AWS 3G. I can’t imagine how hard this would be.
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I just hope that ugly enormous phone was a prototype… otherwise the $150 could be justified. (barely, considering how beautiful the iPhone looked for $199)
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looks like another generic HTC device. hopefully the OS is as good as advertised. Oh and hopefully the battery life is good.
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I don’t buy into that video being the HTC Dream. Google repeatedly demoed the exact same phone and referred to it as a reference design. I would think HTC would keep its (seemingly) highest priority a secret if they have been working on the phone for over 2 years. The Touch Pro looks to be far more advanced as far as the hardware is concerned and I am sure they have something impressive that they are doing to debut.
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As I noted in the comments at TMoNews, HTC has yet to submit to the FCC this phone. I searched the FCC’s authroization database for phones that use the UMTS 1700 band, and HTC does not show up. SE, Moto, Sammy, Nokia, Kyocera, UTStarcom, Huawei, and ZTE have phones in the FCC pipeline for approval (or have already been approved.)
If someone has the FCC ID, that would go a long way to vet the assertion that it’s coming, but right now I call “No T-Mobile Android for You!”
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it will only be worth anything if i can get I am Rich for 999 on it.
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WANT… NOW! Gimme Gimme Gimme!
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Better be able to tether with that biatch!
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Has anyone stopped to think about the feasibility of a 3″x5″ display? The iPhone 3G, which is a fairly large device, is 4.5″ tall and 2.5″ wide (that’s for the whole phone, not just the display). If this HTC Dream is really going to have a 3×5 display, the overall device dimension are going to be close to 6″ x 3.5″. That’s bordering on MID size, not phone size. No way you’ll be able to fit a device like that into a pocket.
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if this has to live up to the iphone standard then we should expect to see cracks develop and the back panel to overheat and melt.
now, that’s some standard of beauty to live up to, eh?
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I want!
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does it have wifi?
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I’d like to wait and see if the date holds or if the world will have to wait until 2009. I posted some thoughts earlier on this topic.
http://kreuzer33.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/google-android-to-arrive-in-september/
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sign me up for 2 @ $150
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I still don’t know about this phone. But for $150 u really can’t beat it. Thank u iPhone for causin the competition to lower their prices.
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YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FINALLY TMO IS GONNA CUM OUT WITH A GOOD PHONE. I CAN FINALLY GET RID OF MY SKLX!!!!!!!!!!HAHAHA N I GOT A GMAIL ACCOUNT:)
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