Over the past few weeks, rumours have abounded about the HTC Dream, rumoured to be the first phone to use the Google Android operating system, the open source system designed to take mobile phones to the next level.
The Google-phone, in other words…
Well, now, a rumour’s popped up that says we might be seeing it sooner than we think. According to Tmonews, T-Mobile USA will be taking pre-orders for the HTC Dream (or the G1, and since it may end up being called the G1, this is what I’m calling it from now on. Plus, ‘Dream’ sounds a bit soppy…), from existing American customers in September. That does tend to imply we’re going to see the finished HTC G1 by the end of the year. In fact, according to the same site, the HTC G1 should be officially announced some time in October.
Hmm, how very intriguing.
The rumoured specs of it sound a bit unbelievable, as well, specifically when we’re talking about the screen, since it’s rumoured the HTC G1 will have a wide-aspect touchscreen that measures 3 inches by 5 inches. That makes the screen just under 6 inches {5.83 inches to be exact) from corner to corner, or to put it another way, bigger than any other mobile phones in the world. Yep, that’s right, no other mobile phones whatsoever come close to the size of the rumoured screen on the HTC G1.
Not even the iPhone. That comes in at 3.5 inches. Put it this way, if it’s true, not only is it bigger than most other mobile phones’ screens, the screen will be bigger than most other mobile phones!
I’m stunned. Honestly, I was so excited, I made a mock-up (that picture just up there, look…), to get my head round how awesome it’ll look…
Other specs include a 3 megapixel camera, as in the HTC Diamond, and, of course, the Google Android operating system. It also seems like you’ll have to have a Gmail account to activate the phone, in much the same way that you have to have iTunes to activate the iPhone.
Either way, purely on the size of that screen, this is a mobile phone to watch very, very, very, very closely. And of course, since it’s HTC, it’ll be ludicrously powerful.
Oh, and if it does get announced in October, that’s going to be around the same time as my birthday and when my contract’s due up. And we have another Sony Ericsson announcement to come in September, were they’re supposed to be unveiling some really top end mobile phones (which’d better be the Hecaro/Hikaro/Hikaru/whatever-it’s-called, or there’ll be trouble…)
Looks my choice over what my next phone will be just got more complicated…
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