Lipstick on a pig? Still a pig. A bit of makeup and some chin surgery n the G1? It’s.. significantly more attractive.
Though they’re not saying when, Telefónica has announced that they’ll be carrying the G1 – albeit under the name it was originally known by before T-Mobile went and rechristened it: the Dream. In addition to the name change throwback, it’s also getting a bit of polish around its infamously ugly chin.
Talk about cutting it close. With less than 12 hours before T-Mobile officially pulls back the curtain on the ultra-hyped G1, the floodgates have opened. Images extracted from the depths of T-Mobile’s G1 site have begun hitting tip boxes, and now TmoNews has managed to get their hands on a bunch of specs and details.
What’s known so far:
We’ll update as more comes in and, of course, be covering tomorrow’s happenings as they go down. Three more product shots over at Mobile Crunch >>
With the big announcement just days away, it’s no surprise that some folks out there might be totin’ the Android-powered HTC Dream (G1) around. Between all of the Google developers, HTC product engineers, and T-Mobile employees involved, in-the-wild shots were bound to get out sooner or later.
And now they have, on the blog of Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins. Rizzn got the shots through a friend-of-a-friend-of-a-spy, and passed’em on for the world to see. While there isn’t all that much new to see from these shots, it sure is nice to see it out and about – and more importantly, that it doesn’t seem all that tough to type on.
[Via TalkAndroid]
It’s barely even lunch time, and the HTC Dream rumor mill is already churnin’ away at full force.
Just minutes ago, an insider involved with the development of Android confirmed to us that the HTC Dream will set you back just $200 bucks after contract. While they weren’t able to provide a sans-contract price, they did say that T-Mobile’s subsidization wasn’t very large.
Now, they’ve still got just under a week to switch things up, but with the oft-compared iPhone sitting at $199 and most rumors pinpointing the Dream to come in between 150 and 250 smackers, a 200 dollar price point seems plenty reasonable. (Plus, a price tag of only two Franklins might just make up for the fact that it’s not exactly the prettiest handset ever launched.)
In a pleasant change from the normal handset release rigmarole, it looks like the Android-powered HTC Dream might actually show up earlier than we expected. While just yesterday a source revealed to us that we’d be seeing it on October 20th, VentureBeat has heard it might show up a whole 3 days earlier, moving the date to Friday, October 17th.
While the insider whispers might be saying different things, they’re all pointing to right around the third weekend of October. Whether it’s on a Friday or a Monday, it looks we’ll all finally get the chance to poke and prod at a live Android handset in just over a month.
A little birdy just dropped by CrunchGear HQ, bringing tidings of HTC Dream release dates in his little bird-sized satchel. They further confirmed the September 23rd announcement, cemented the rumors that there will be 3 different colors (all signs point to black, white, and brown), and then mentioned one little special tid-bit: the release date.
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Rumor! Grains of salt and whatnot. Forward-looking statements, etc. Thinking caps on, pencils down and what have you. Gearfuse apparently got a tip from an insider close to the HTC Dream saying that the device “will feature a keyboard and trackball almost identical to the Sidekick.” If this is true, fine by me. The Sidekick’s got a nice keyboard.
I’m not head-over-heels, take-it-to-the-prom in love with the trackball but it gets the job done. This video from a few weeks ago is supposedly the Dream in action and, yes, the fleeting glances of the keyboard and trackball make them look like they could be in the same league as the Sidekick’s.
Here’s an apparent video of the HTC Dream running Google’s Android operating system. The video looks to have been shot at incredibly high altitude, as even the most basic and delicate hand movements have left the guy working the camera completely out of breath.
This looks a little clunky for an HTC device so I don’t want to say that this is definitely definitely definitely the HTC Dream but whatever it is, the Sidekick-like sliding screen looks nice. For all we know, it could just be a tricked-out Sidekick so take what you see here with a grain of salt. Unless you’re the guy who shot the video – it sounds like you might benefit from cutting salt out of your diet altogether.
via BGR
So Mobile-Review.com forum member deuxani posted the image to your left and asks whether or not the bottom row of HTC devices have all been announced. Most are recognizable right off the bat, but Into Mobile points out that the device in the lower left corner seems like the odd duck.
Thoughts? Maybe this is what we’ll see at the HTC event next month in London. Is it the Dream?
Previously codenamed “Dream,” the Android-based Google phone coming from HTC will be called — drumroll please — “Dream,” according to IDG News Service.
This information comes from “a person close to the situation,” so it’s possible that we’re not much further along than we were back in early November when we told you that HTC’s Google phone was codenamed — drumroll please — “Dream,” and that the specs looked awfully similar to the HTC Omni pictured above.
The Logitech Pure-Fi Dream
Guess what? Logitech is now stepping up its line of iPod accessories with a whole new series of music systems called Pure-Fi. First up is the Pure-Fi Anywhere, which offers one touch shuffle and repeat, a remote, 2-inch Max-X drivers, and a 10-hour rechargeable battery. That sells for $150 and will be available this month along with the Logitech Pure-Fi Dream Bedroom Music System, or Logitech Pure-Fi Dream for short.
Now this system is designed for bedroom use and can be used as an alarm clock, AM/FM radio, one button playlist and station selection, motion-activated backlit controls, auto-adjusting LCD that dims at night and displays song info. You’re in for a rude-awakening with 3/4-inch dome tweeters and 3-inch long woofers, so make sure you take it easy on the boom boom boom. You can pick up the Pure-Fi Dream for $250 at the end of the month. After the jump, a picture of the Pure-Fi Anywhere.
