The Wall Street Journal reports that T-Mobile will start selling the very first Android-powered smartphone in late October. (That is, of course, provided the world doesn’t descend into anarchy by then.) The paper cites “people familiar with the matter,” which is much better than citing “eh, just a feelin’ we have.”
Look for some sort of official announcement from T-Mobile on September 23.
Once again, the first Android phone will be the HTC Dream, and HTC is expected to ship between 600,000 and 700,000 of the smartphones.
But will Android be a big bust? That’s the question to ask now.
Android-powered smartphone in late October. I can’t wait! This thing supposed to the first rate. Kinda corny looking but; still first rate…
Of course Android will succeed. If all else fails it will work because they’ve managed to get HTC on board, and BOY does HTC rock…. HTC is so everything I’ve ever wanted from Palm, but never got (at least not in the past 3-5 years)…
I love my current Windows Mobile powered phone from HTC and really hope that Android will be competitive for a smartphone power user in a year or so as I would love to kick Windows Mobile, just out of my latent Linux fanboy’s instinctive nature. :)