Mysterious roadmaps chock-full of pretty pictures of fanciful handsets from the future have a tendency to appear every once in a while; on the surface, we have no particular reason to believe this one over any other, but we'd
like to. According to
TmoToday's supposed leak, the HTC-sourced
G2 /
Magic is expected this summer -- which seems like an incongruous statement considering that we're now expecting it to launch as the
myTouch 3G. That would have us believing that the doc is either fake or out of date, and if it's the latter, that makes the other two scoops here still relevant and interesting: first up, a second version of the G1 is said to be launching in the fall (looking a heck of a lot like an
Ocean 2, if you ask us). Next, we're seeing a Samsung "Houdini" in the same time frame that could definitely represent the US launch of the AWS-enabled
i7500 -- especially since we've been expecting a Sammy Android set on T-Mobile anyhow. Whether this is all real or dead fake, it's definitely plausible, and we're figuring it probably comes pretty close to representing the carrier's Android plans for '09. Bring it on, guys.
posted May 4th 2009 12:38PM
Damn it T-Mobile, where is my 1.5 update! That's what I'm worried about.
I have been talking to tmobile the update will start coming out the begging of june
isn't 1.5 available now?
it's good houdini is NOT i7500
1.5 available only to UK, DEV phones, and rooted phones. NOT stock/TMo retail US phones.
Yeah, even before I read the post, I thought that looked like a helio ocean 2 as well.
It was a nice phone, so I wouldn't expect anything bad, and android on it would be cool.
What do they mean EOL for the "G1 v1" around 9/8/09?
If they mean they're not selling it anymore, i'm reasonably cool with that, but if they mean that we're not going to get Android 1.6/2.0/2.5/3.0 (and so on)...That's screwed up. Even Apple, the most evil, proprietary, locked-down company out there allows you to upgrade iPhone OS from 1.0 to 3.0 on the iPhone 2G. If T-Mobile doesn't allow you to get past Cupcake cuz they EOL'd it, i expect to see some hardcore, massive backlash.