Rogers and HTC give up: Magic will see Android 2.1, but Dream gets a pass
By Sean Cooper 
posted January 6th 2010 4:03AM
posted January 6th 2010 4:03AM
Seems that all your cries out in Rogersland have forced somebody to rethink the official company line on updates from OS 1.5 for the Rogers HTC Dream and HTC Magic. The message was simple: there would be no updates for the devices beyond 1.5. MobileSyrup's now heard directly from HTC that there will indeed be upgrades to both devices, with the first scheduled in the next weeks. Bump one will apparently see "a number of benefits for these devices, including bringing the HTC Sense experience to the HTC Magic" though the OS version will stay at 1.5 -- in other words, you'll basically get a current-gen Hero. While that's cause for celebration, mid-year is when we'll get to the meat of the tweaks as we'll apparently see an upgrade to 2.1 for the Magic, but the lowly Dream -- due to "certain limitations," likely meager internal storage if we had to guess -- will stay at 1.5. So there you have it, your sets may get better in the near term and much better -- at least for some -- half way through the year.
Dam imagine sense ui on Nexus.
Mid-year until Sense UI on 2.x? That doesn't sound right
the wallpaper in the picture and the shape of this phone is so similar to 5800 - http://bit.ly/6fYQ34
also the austrian A1 network is getting 2.0 on their magic which is 32B i believe... http://news.softpedia.com/news/HTC-Magic-to-Receive-Android-2-0-in-Austria-131110.shtml
and also said to be getting 2.1
so good news for 32B magic users (and G1 users) with less ram
more info: http://androinica.com/2010/01/04/htc-magic-to-get-android-2-0-update-by-april/
Thanks Sean for brining some much needed attention to our plight with the Roger's/Android issue in Canada. As a Dream owner I am still miffed about the lack of updates for what I consider the device that was aimed more at the prosumer and less at the casual user. I still remain hopeful that there will be a way to get at least a legitimate 1.6 update via HTC and Rogers.
FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!
A fully working Sense ROM and 2.1 with Sense... not bad....
I doubt that it will have live wallpaper.