Android Community has just been invited to an event that will see the launch of the first Android powered T-Mobile smartphone.  The press conference will be on September 23^rd at 10:30AM EDT and we’ll be Live Blogging the whole event, together with bringing you hands-on photos of the new Android device from a live product demonstration.

The cellphone we expect to see officially unveiled is HTC’s Dream, which is believed to be branded the T-Mobile G1.  The September 23rd event ties in with the previously leaked suggestion that the carrier would be announcing their Android handset on this date, with availability by the end of October.

Both T-Mobile and Google executives will be presenting the G1, and we’ll have all the details as they happen.  The Live Blog address is http://Live.AndroidCommunity.com/ so join us on September 23rd!

Sept 16, 2008 -Vincent Nguyen

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The Android Guys managed to get their mitts on the first real drawings of the T-Mobile G1. The images reveal a lot more information that we’ve only been able to speculate on up until now.

The most notable part of the T-Mobile G1 is the “chin”. It’s located towards the bottom of the handset where the jogball and buttons are located. This design doesn’t make any sense to me whatsoever. The slide up display and the chin alone will drive case makers mad! I hope for the sake of the G1′s longevity that the outer shell is well-built from scratch-resistant material.

Other exterior markings include “with Google” located on the back of the G1, while the HTC logo and the T-Mobile myFaves logo live underneath the slide up display. As the Android Guys pointed out, I’m happy to see HTC branded on the Dream phone since they’re the first to go to market so heck yes, they deserve to show off their brand.

The most important part of the engineering diagram is the sizing. Based on the dimensions given, we can calculate that the thickness of the G1 is approximately 0.64-inches or 16.35mm. This isn’t bad considering the iPhone is 12.3mm thick, without a flip-out screen section. We’re still unsure of the display’s dimensions, but we can hope that it’ll at least match the iPhoneís 3.5-inch screen.

T-Mobile G1 specs/feature update – NOTE: the list is speculative and can change at anytime.

Other specs AndroidGuys reported later via anonymous sources said the device will sport a 528Mhz Qualcomm 7201 processor; Data kit for USB connectivity in the box; 64128MB Internal RAM; 128256MB Internal ROM, 1GB MicroSD card; Dedicated camera button; 3.1MP camera (no flash) 2048 x 1536; Video playback files – H.264, streaming, 3GPP, MPEG4, and Codec 3GP and a Dedicated YouTube Player.