T-Mobile USA’s Android roadmap has leaked, and it brings with it a number of as-yet unannounced devices that include the Samsung Houdini and the G1 v.2 “Bigfoot”. According to the roadmap, the G2 – aka the HTC Magic, now believed to be called the T-Mobile myTouch 3G – will launch this Summer, a reasonable prediction, priced at $179.
The T-Mobile G1, meanwhile, will reach end-of-life stage at the end of the “back to school” period in early September. It will be replaced by a device listed as the G1 v.2 “Bigfoot”, which the graphic would suggest is a slide-out QWERTY device similar to the Helio Ocean 2.
Meanwhile, a Samsung handset – the Houdini – will reach the carrier. There’s no telling what connection the Houdini has with the Samsung I7500; it could be a different device, or the image could be a mockup created in advance of real I7500 graphics being available (the same could be said for the G1 v.2). Pricing for the latter two handsets has been blanked out, unfortunately.
[via Boy Genius Report]
Because after using the G1 I don't think I want to go back to a phone w/o a physical QWERTY keyboard.
The Bigfoot that's showing on the picture is not really appealing.
Bigfoot looks ugly, IMHO.
So T-Mobile isn't gonna call the magic, the T-Mobile G2? but instead the T-Mobile mTouch 3G? Sounds ummm a little too much.
Yes, I would bet on that. By September I doubt T-mobile will be sending any OTA's to G1 users. Thank god we have JF.
tmo could be the official android service provider...
- Faster processor
- More internal memory
- Better looking hardware. 1.5 software version looks awesome
PLEASE PLEASE T-Mobile/HTC, keep the keyboard layout and size exactly the same for us G1 users.
So I'm hoping thats it and thats just a poor image of it...
I doubt it though...
so i'm hoping thats it and thats just a poor image of it...
I doubt it though...