HTC G1 Hits T-Mobile in October, Android Phone for Sprint This Year
As T-Mobile finished handing off a round of press invites to its Android event next week, Google was busy having a bit of Android fun as well. At a developer event held earlier this week in London, Google’s Mike Jennings gave quite the demo - showcasing a few apps and even displaying an app that he wrote himself in about two hours. The point of course is that Android is a truly open OS which makes it easy for any developer to get involved. We still have plenty of reason to be excited about next week’s T-Mobile event as Jennings was quite limited in what he was able to display to attendees. In fact he couldn’t even make a call with the handset in front of attendees though he admitted that he has been using and Android-powered phone personally, albeit not in public. While all this is fine and dandy, we’re more interested in the latest timing rumors that have emerged in the wake of the London event. It looks like T-Mobile customers will have first crack at the HTC G1 on Friday, October 17. The handset will begin shipping to stores that Monday but the cat won’t be allowed out of the bag until Friday. What’s more, news that Sprint will be next in line for some Android love has emerged and it will not be hocking a CDMA version of the G1. Sprint will apparently make an entirely different handset available by the end of the year. Jennings wouldn’t admit the manufacturer or model of Sprint’s initial Android offering, though he did mention “other functionality” when comparing it to the G1. So Sprint customers, you’ll just have to sit tight and expect some new info on your upcoming Android offering to leak out soon. T-Mobile customers on the other hand, it looks like you’ve got another month to make up your mind but we’ll surely be confirming the exact release timing next week.
Tags: Android, dream, G1, google, Handsets, HTC, Rumors, Sprint, T-Mobile
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Come on, BGR! From now on, more Android postings please! 
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@Zach Epstein. The article mentions nothing about Sprint releasing a Android device by the end of the year. It does say by the end of 2009?
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Glad I saw this now the Touch Diamond is going back. Thanks for the heads up.
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I can’t wait for a Sprint Android device I need that Immediately! Hopefully we get some leaked specs real soon and to think I was just about to jump on the HTC bandwagon this definitely change my mind.
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Mind is made up - Got to give this a test run!
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If I was any one of y’all that posted above me I would definently wait to see if a family member or friend gets it so you can give it a test run before wasting your money…that and htc rocks so I would still keep my options open if I were y’all
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A lot of hype for an untested, unknown product which seems primarily focused on eye-candy rather than productivity. And not forgetting all the data Google will be secretly mining from G1 users. Giving this one a wide berth, thank you.
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Maybe Palm actually dropped Nova and went with Android…
Which means another HTC device with Google Android stamped with a Palm logo sold by Sprint!
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“A lot of hype for an untested, unknown product…”
Quite the contrary. Can you think of any mobile OS in history that was this widely accessible to developers pre-release?
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“primarily focused on eye-candy rather than productivity.”
serious? if anything there UI has some work left but does that whole developer money giveaway challenge not mean anything?
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and by there i meant their
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this could get interesting… I would be pleased with a palm device running android, or an HTC device like the touch pro running android as well. I cannot wait for specs/leaks/etc!!
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Another comment regarding eye-candy and the interface… Come on people…look at Windows Mobile - it’s just plain OOGGLEEE without some kind of overlay. Look at the default Symbian themes that come with the device…another ugliness (and I do love S60.. N95 owner here). Look at Palm..simply no comment. From iPhone hater’s point of view - Apple is the only one with an eye candy interface. One thing about mobile os’s is the fact that they can be easily customized (unless it’s Verizon handset crippled with their own interface or Motorola which no matter what changes you do still remains ugly) so therefore what you see is just the base interface. I would not be surprised if G1 came preloaded with some magenta wallpapers but it will be the end user that will pimp out, encrust in faux gems and skins their beloved device beyond recognition. Don’t forget about screen protectors etc etc. I think it’s about time that the industry renames these devices and no longer calls them “Mobile phones” and instead starts calling them PCD’s - Personal Communication Devices. These are no longer phones…and the key letter here is P - for Personal; your own - make it look the way you want to. As far as the other doubt about eye-candy… I thin Google / HTC and God only know who else already proved that G1 is a POWERFUL hardware….dedicated graphics chip which handles Street view, Rubic’s cube animation, kinetic scrolling, acceleration and everything else without a hiccup. So let’s not bitch - let’s wait for the release because I think it will be one kick ass device. And Personally I’m ashamed to say that I will be abandoning my N95 to jump to Android - the main reason is that I feel raped by Nokia for not releasing their latest devices with T-Mobile’s 3G support. A lot of people would get N85 or N79 if it had AWS IV support even if 3G is not fully up and running just to have a device ready for their beloved Magenta network. Instead nokia flipped a finger and said “Screw You”. Well - time for me to say the same. I’ll miss the 5MP camera though. But the time will show if I’ll fall in love with my Andy G1 (doesn’t it sound Sweet… Is that an Andy G1 in your pocket or are you just horny for me? )
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“all the data Google will be secretly mining from G1 users”
Android is an open source operating system. Any data being sent to google servers is made plain as day simply by examining the source.
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Oh, my birthday is Oct. 17th. Too bad it’s on T-Mobile.
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Pish Posh boog, why are you so ParaNoid?!!!
Maybe you should get some Meds to Help with that>>>>>>>
*nods*
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I work in IT security so I know how corporations routinely overlook security or dont see any problems with leaving holes to be patched “later” which in most cases never comes.
Look at Chrome. Released with 2 known security issues, who knows what else is buried under the gglitz. And for all the cries about WM being ugly I am not sure how that is relevant to its functionality which is what should be the foremost concern but all I see are people getting hyped for something that is unproven.
“Android is an open source operating system. Any data being sent to google servers is made plain as day simply by examining the source.”
Not sure this will stop any data being sent to google, have you read any of their EULA’s lately? They require you to agree that they can use the data obtained by using their services anyway they want, I doubt this will be different when they are in control of the OS.
But hey, let me know in a year’s time how it all works out, maybe i’m wrong and goodle is really the benevolent entity people seem to think they are.
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Let’s pray that’s not what it looks like. I personally couldn’t live with that.
I’ll wait for the Omnia or Xperia if that’s the HTC G1 in the photo.
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Er… though I’m interested/excited about HTC Dream/G1… the pic in this photo actually looks BETTER than previous showings. Is that a G1??
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Chrome is a beta…not a ‘release’.
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The phone on the screen is the demo phone used in the Android SDK.
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“Not sure this will stop any data being sent to google, have you read any of their EULA’s lately?”
EULA’s don’t determine what data gets sent to Google. The software does.
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To John Homes.
Beta or not Beta isn’t important as long as its works. Gmail one of the best free pop/imap email accounts IMO is still in Beta.
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I cant wait…HTC Touch Pro now this….Sprint might be jumping on the android band wagon….wow…this i gotta see
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I’ve had 8 different windows mobile phones and have support more than 4 dozen of them at my org. The winmo OS (even the new 6.1) is so bad that we are willing to pay our users to switch and currently don’t even support any new WinMO phones (personal or purchased by our org).
Microsoft failed with winmo and unless the company changes they (in my opinion) will continue to produce worthless software.
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