Android 1.6 getting pushed to G1s starting tonight, myTouch 3Gs in a day?

This is totally out of left field, but TmoNews (which tends to have a pretty solid track record when it comes to all things T-Mobile) is claiming that "select" G1s will be receiving Android 1.6 "Donut" starting... well, right about now. So much for any lingering worries that the first retail Android device was being left high and dry, eh? If everything goes well, the rumor goes on to say that myTouch 3Gs would be getting their own over-the-air upgrade in about 24 hours -- and like the 1.5 update before it, it'd likely be a staggered rollout to make sure that T-Mobile doesn't brick a bazillion phones in one fell swoop. Any G1 owners out there seeing anything yet? This sounds awfully quick, especially considering that the Dev Phone 1 just took delivery of 1.6 a handful of hours ago -- but hey, if it's true, we like T-Mobile's hustle.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 1st 2009 1:54AM]

Any idea whether Samsung will offer 1.6 for their Android device as well?

[JayMonster Posted Oct 1st 2009 8:32AM]

Now, granted this may be giving some suits way too much credit, but after the brief dust-up caused by the C&D Google sent to Cyanogen (which most likely had the nasty little side effect of letting more people... including those that shouldn't try such things to know about Cyanogen and the ability to Flash another ROM onto their phones), I don't find this all that surprising. If they had left G1 owners out in the cold on Donut, it would have only cause more people to go and try flashing their devices with a "non-carrier ROM"

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 1st 2009 9:19AM]

I just hope they found a way of speeding up the OS a bit.
I love the phone but some of this lag is starting to weight down on me. I actually started contemplating the 8900.
Also, WTF is the deal with the SAR on the mT3G???
Highest emitting phone on the market??? Whats that mean??? The mT in mT3G stands for my Tumor

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 1st 2009 12:32PM]

When T-Mobile gets the Blackberry Onyx I will be getting rid of my G1 for that. If I can't flash Cyanogen ROMS to my G1 it is useless. The carrier build sucks.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 4th 2009 7:54PM]

got mine this morning, but haven't used it enough to realize the differences. will post more when +/-'s are discovered...