New York Times: T-Mobile to sell HTC Android phone as early as October
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Aug 15th 2008 5:02AM
posted Aug 15th 2008 5:02AM
Here we go folks. The New York Times is reporting that T-Mobile will be the first carrier to offer Android. According to "people briefed on the company's plans," the HTC phone will go on sale in the US "before Christmas, perhaps as early as October." The NYT's sources also say that the 5-row QWERTY slider from that Dream video (embedded after the break) matches the HTC device that T-Mobile will sell. The device is still waiting for FCC approval with a three-way Google, T-Mobile, and HTC announcement coming as early as September. The deal is expected to be exclusive making it the only Android phone available in the US this year.
Of course you know what this means? It's the birth of the Android fanboy -- sure you love 'em at First!, but then they never shut up about Street View.
Update: We've added a second video (from March) of what looks to be the same device demonstrated by Google's own Andy Rubin. The 3G reference design runs a 400MHz Qualcomm MSM 7200-based processor at just over 300MHz, includes a trackball, 3D graphics processor, and appears to have an HTC logo.
Of course you know what this means? It's the birth of the Android fanboy -- sure you love 'em at First!, but then they never shut up about Street View.
Update: We've added a second video (from March) of what looks to be the same device demonstrated by Google's own Andy Rubin. The 3G reference design runs a 400MHz Qualcomm MSM 7200-based processor at just over 300MHz, includes a trackball, 3D graphics processor, and appears to have an HTC logo.
I bet you vader thinks street view is pretty epic.
too subtle, i almost missed that! lmao! a vote for you!
The future is twitchy.
3G
Boy you guys are kinder late (this has been out for days at tmonews)
and yes 3G !!
HOLY POOP!
color me unimpressed.
Not really looking forward to the OS as well, the device may look nice, but with the Touch Pro released now with a pretty sweet upgrade in specs and software it leaves the android device with a lot less to be desired from.
It'll be a looong time before it catches up and gets a hold of the market, and thats if it even does well to begin with...
I hope this will be good, well android at least. I dont know if I should wait this thing out or just quit Tmobile and and on the iPhone bandwagon...time will tell.
if the phone turns out to be great, hopefully they'll be a cdma flavor in the mix.
what is the screen size and resolution?
*sigh* T-MOBILE...again not feeling the CDMA love. :-(
Seems http://htcsource.com has some new information and images of the HTC dream, they are staying pre-sales are Sept 17 and release on October 13!