Sep 10

T-Mobile to offer Android handset "soon," Reuters reports

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It’s not precisely a very big surprise, but Reuters is at this time reporting that T-Mobile will start selling a “mobile phone based on Google Inc’s Android software” (otherwise known to everyone else as the HTC Dream) “within weeks,” citing people familiar with the matter. The official announcement will apparently happen in New York City this month, with two sources further pegging the Dat. for the announcement down to September 23rd, which mostly lines up with the details The New York Times reported last month. Buckle up, folks. Things are about to get engaging attention.

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Aug 15

New York Times: T-Mobile to sell HTC Android phone as early as October

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in this place we go folks. The New York Times is reporting that T-Mobile will be the first carrier to offer Android. According to “people briefed on the company’s plans,” the HTC phone will go on sale in the US “before Christmas, perhaps as early as October.” The NYT’s sources also say that the 5-row QWERTY slider from that Dream video (embedded after the break) matches the HTC device that T-Mobile will sell. The device is still waiting for FCC approval with a three-way Google, T-Mobile, and HTC announcement coming as early as September. The deal is expected to be exclusive making it the only Android phone available in the US this year.

Of course you know what this means? It’s the birth of the Android fanboy — sure you love ‘em at First!, but then they never shut up about Street View.

Update: We’ve added a second video (from March) of what looks to be the same device demonstrated by Google’s own Andy Rubin. The 3G reference design runs a 400MHz Qualcomm MSM 7200-based processor at just over 300MHz, includes a trackball, 3D graphics processor, and appears to have an HTC logo.

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Jul 10

Jobs: App Store launching with 500 iPhone applications, 25% free

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Steve Jobs told USA Today that the Apple App Store will launch with “more than 500″ applications Thursday night for the iPhone and iPod touch. Of these, 25% will be free and 90% (of those for sale) will cost $9.99 or less. “This is the biggest launch of my career,” said Jobs. Analyst Tim Bajarin at Creative Strategies said, “When IBM introduced the PC, it was good, but it didn’t take off until people started discovering the software.” It’s these apps then, he adds, that will “dramatically differentiates the iPhone” from Treos and BlackBerrys. Indeed, while consumers are focused on the launch of the iPhone 3G device, it’s the App Store which has analysts in such a tizzy.

Update: The New York Times reports that 1/3 of all first-wave applications will be games. We also corrected the Bajarin misquote above.

[Thanks, Matt and Chris Z.]

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