The Google Phone / HTC Dream / T-Mobile G1 (whatever you want to call it) has finally appeared with some proper pics to let you take a much better gander.
As far as we can tell, there's no banana-style kick flip to make the phone into a design oddity, so at least we can be thankful for small mercies.
Coming soon?
So...what can we gather from these pics? It's going to go to T-Mobile, likely under the G1 guise, and judging by the quality of the handset on display, should be coming within the next four months (i.e. before Christmas for those without a calendar handy).
You'd have to also assume that's a touchscreen on there, even though a slide-out QWERTY keyboard is hidden under the screen.
The amount of free and paid for applications on a phone driven by something Google has been behind (among others of course) is mind-blowing...it seems the sooner this can come out, the sooner we get a rival to the App Store.
And that can only be a good thing.
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mbuck
September 1st 2008
1. Like a lot of other people i've been eager to learn more about the Android platform and have become increasingly excited over the past months as we heard more and more about a HTC handset on the way.
Not sure if i've overhyped Android, but i cant help but feel a little disapoointed with the handset HTC have offered.
I know stylistically is was never gonna better the iPhone, but really it seems like they haven't tried at all.
Hopefully the platform itself will more than make up for the handsets shortcomings... who knows, maybe this was done on purpose to not take the limelight off the Android platform - who knows?
http://www.talkandroid.com/android-forums/htc-smart-mobility/122-htc-dream-what-do-you-really-think.html
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