Working from the leaked photos, videos and engineers' sketches, artist Neo Carlo Magno has put together this render of what the HTC Dream G1 will probably look like. It's a first attempt, but does include the full QWERTY keyboard and row of shortcuts on the G1's "chin" section, together with the unusual arc slide mechanism. What it doesn't show is the camera, ... continued »

Further details about how T-Mobile's preorder system for the Android-powered HTC Dream - aka T-Mobile G1 - have leaked, courtesy of some internal carrier documents that TmoWorld claim to have received.  They apparently confirm several dates, including an official HTC Dream launch on October 13th.  However, on October 17th T-Mobile will begin taking pre-orders from existing customers, using an exclusive online ... continued »

It's the turn of the New York Times to report on the T-Mobile Android rumor, and while it's unclear if they have their own sources or are merely repeating the story from earlier this week, they do confirm that T-Mobile, Google and HTC are hoping to have the Dream smartphone out before Christmas.  According to the NYT piece, "people briefed ... continued »

After one round of delay rumors, we've now had the second.  On Thursday, Barrons ran an article quoting analyst Trip Chowdhry of Global Equities Research, who has suggested that the launch of Android handsets would be delayed to Q1 2009 from Q4 this year.  One of the key hardware partners, HTC, is according to Chowdhry "having structural problems to incorporate ... continued »

Recent rumors earlier today from a source familiar with the situation reported that "although a large number of people are hard at work on the Gphone and the open-source operating system/platform for mobile devices (Android) the actual Gphone will not be ready for release this year. The Android Dream phone demoed during the keynote wowed me along with a whole bunch ... continued »