HTC Dream FCC approved, Android clear for launch?

The long rumored HTC Dream handset -- once referred to as "The Googlephone" -- just received FCC approval. The handset is listed as type, "Dream" with a model of "DREA100." The same model also appears with a WiFi Interoperability Certificate touting 802.11b/g WiFi. If indeed this is the long awaited Android phone, then T-Mobile, HTC, and Google are free to announce in September with an October launch as originally planned. FCC label with that DREA100 moniker pictured after the break.

Update: Further investigation reveals mention of a "jogball" like that seen on the handset from the videos. The Dream is said to be in compliance with Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR with this round of testing conducted only on the GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/1900 and WCDMA 1700 bands -- the latter being T-Mobile's preferred 3G frequency.

Read -- HTC Dream WiFi Certification [Warning: PDF]
Read -- FCC Cell Radios
Read -- FCC WiFi Bluetooth

[Paul Dullford @ Aug 18th 2008 7:30AM]

Yay! Now to wait for a similar phone to come out through AT&T.
Wait a minute...

[d @ Aug 18th 2008 1:26PM]

I know what you mean. I waited a year on T-Mobile for this, and last week switched to ATT for the iPhone.

[skyshock21 @ Aug 18th 2008 2:30PM]

By similar do you mean a phone that you can run unsigned code/apps on? Sorry iPhone won't let you.

[steven @ Aug 18th 2008 3:34PM]

Will we be able to unlock or buy unlocked at use the dream on the ATT network?

[j_g_puff @ Aug 18th 2008 7:34AM]

What do you reckon the 'water sensitive label' is for? Rejecting folk's returns claims?

[Phil Perman @ Aug 18th 2008 7:41AM]

Normally things like that are used to prove its an authentic device, it shows one thing, you touch it and it changes colour or shows something else. I have a few exam certificates with water sensitive things on them

[Rich @ Aug 18th 2008 7:49AM]

Yes, most cell phones have a water sensitive label in them. As you guessed, it's for rejecting water-damaged phones returned under warranty.

[j_g_puff @ Aug 18th 2008 7:50AM]

So it's just to prevent forgery? Nice.

I wish I had exam certificates like that.

[j_g_puff @ Aug 18th 2008 7:54AM]

I once dropped my old Sony Z5 down the toilet...after using it (the toilet, that is).

I immediately took the battery out, washed it down and dismantled it for drying. To this day it still works, though it has since smelt slightly odd. I don't use it regularly, but it's good as a backup or for lending to people.


I just thought you'd like to know.

[PiperSon @ Aug 18th 2008 8:16AM]

Remind me never to ask you to borrow a phone...

[TareX @ Aug 18th 2008 10:10AM]

@ j_g_puff

You are a disgusting person, man. Or just lame. Depending on the authenticity of your "phone in used toilet" story.

[Reader @ Aug 18th 2008 11:56AM]

Yeah dude, it's totally lame to drop a phone in a "used toilet". New toilet or nothing.

[dnyyanks62 @ Aug 18th 2008 7:46AM]

About time T-Mobile has something to say for themselves and about time I can even think about upgrading.

[tencount @ Aug 18th 2008 7:52AM]

Now I can upgrade from my Iphone!!

[Macro @ Aug 18th 2008 10:39AM]

I know and its about time they upgrade the SLOW edge.

[Matt @ Aug 18th 2008 7:48AM]

Damn, no HSDPA? Hopefully it just hasn't been tested w/ HSDPA yet, 'cause it's not really gonna be much of an iPhone competitor in Australia w/o HSDPA, in my opinion.

[CJ @ Aug 18th 2008 8:38AM]

Yeah, because according to all witness accounts, the iPhone with HSDPA is lightning fast.

[Jeremy K. @ Aug 18th 2008 8:47AM]

Good thing it's being released in USA not Australia.

[kjb434 @ Aug 18th 2008 9:25AM]

It has HDSPA, you just have to enable it through tweaks.

The ATT Tilt has it too, but it's not advertised. I turned it on after I got it through a tweak and enjoy the speeds.

[Alex @ Aug 18th 2008 7:58AM]

This is great my contract ran out at just the right time. Ill be picking this bad boy up.

[imgroupie @ Aug 18th 2008 8:54AM]

Yay! Even better its coming begining holiday season! this is gonna rock! i cant wait to hit up my groupies and play location aware gaming, use sreetview, play pacman and all on my top 5 ! oh shiiiit!.. XD

[derX @ Aug 18th 2008 8:10AM]

I am honestly not getting what TMobile is doing. This phone has the potential to be Tmobile's iPhone and Tmo is just sitting on it. Any tech person knows this phone has great potential to be awesome, so circulating info amongst tech blog sites and the like really isn't doing much: we all know it exists and have formed our opinions already, be they good, bad, or indifferent. How about you tell the masses, Tmo? The form factor has mass appeal. It seem to have a SideKick-ish form but with an easy to use, potentially powerful platform--satisfying the needs of the tween, business person, and techno-savy person alike.

They haven't released few enough details to leave me intrigued and wanting to know more nor have they released enough to have me drooling.

Tmobile, make it work.

[Kevin @ Aug 24th 2008 10:10AM]

Holla atcha boy!

[Flit @ Aug 18th 2008 8:43AM]

Are you not from America? There's a little thing called Christmas coming up that many people use as an excuse to get a new phone. If they talk about it now, they risk other companies announcing other phones in the next 3 months, and the phone would fade from most people's minds (other than tech heads like us).

[Alcoholicaust @ Aug 18th 2008 9:19AM]

@ flit...Umm, if T-Mob had the marketing genius to paint the G1 picture with the same brushes as Apple did with the Iphone, I wouldn't think it would matter whether the phone was marketed in September or late November. I remember a certain release in June that seemed to fair well 6 months later. I think in Google/T-Mob can come up with a good marketing scheme, they have a big enough footprint where a September/October announcement/campaign would fair well into December.

[jopari @ Aug 18th 2008 2:21PM]

They're not _quite_ sitting on it, they're just going to promote it a different way. Since T-Mobile doesn't have someone with Steve Jobs' charisma, they're not going to have a huge press event. Instead, they're planning on selling a few to current customers at a very low price with the hopes that those customers will create a lot of buzz on the internet before it goes on sale to anyone in October. I'd be willing to bet that they're going to take out quite a few television ads to show it off as well like Samsung did for the Instinct.

It won't be an event, like both comings of the iPhone were, but it's not going to just suddenly appear on T-Mobile's site. They've got an ace in the hole and they know it.

[JAG @ Aug 18th 2008 8:16AM]

Any mention of GPS? It'd be a huge disappointment if it didn't have i.

[Jon Doe. @ Aug 18th 2008 12:52PM]

It will have GPS.

[Mark @ Aug 18th 2008 2:36PM]

Yes, it has GPS, along with a compass and(I believe... somewhat correct me if I'm wrong) an accelerometer. Thus, how they did the street view demo where it knew where he was and what he was facing.

[fh @ Aug 18th 2008 8:23AM]

For all intents and purposes, "WCDMA 1700" = UMTS = HSDPA.

Your problem is not that it doesn't support HSDPA, but that it uses 1700mhz. Whether or not it also supports the Australian WCDMA 850/900mhz bands is not yet known. But considering the limited deployment of 1700 (T-mo US is the only 3G network using that band), the Dream will likely be a multi-band device -- maybe 900/1700/2100mhz (which would -really- stick it to AT&T since it uses 1900mhz).

[fh @ Aug 18th 2008 8:24AM]

Should have been a reply to Matt ^

[Setnev @ Aug 18th 2008 9:49PM]

I would love to see T-Mobile stick it to AT&T by bringing the phone over to the 900/1700/2100MHz bands only because even if T-Mobile doesn't get exclusivity over the phone, AT&T users can't use an unlocked phone on their network anyway.

[Phineas J. Whoopie @ Aug 18th 2008 8:25AM]

Do you guys have the full FCC link for the testing (mentioning the jogball, Bluetooth, etc.)?

The link above only shows a 1-page WiFi certification...

[TareX @ Aug 18th 2008 8:36AM]

Just to be sure, this sketch image has nothing to do with how the real device will look, right?

[Jim @ Aug 18th 2008 8:47AM]

Well, from what I've seen, other than the OS coming w/it, it looks much like TMO isn't straying too far from home on this one. You'd think they would design something different, or "out of the box", but they didn't...just used the same sidekick design and tossed in a few extras and a new OS. Sorry, but I don't see too many people leaving other carriers for TMO over this re-hash.

[Ed T @ Aug 18th 2008 8:46AM]

Yeah, this looks like the Creative Zen of smartphones. I predict a similarly bright future for the device.

[imgroupie @ Aug 18th 2008 9:04AM]

oh and if t-mobile doesn't get the job done then 1 of those other open handset alliance company's will have 2. Come on t-mobile!

and since its t mobile its probably going to be sidekick' sh, it better have a good thumb board. I bet it'll catch on with the teens pretty quickly.

Please let this device have all the good radios.

[bojan @ Aug 18th 2008 9:03AM]

is the first picture the side front of the device? I don't think so, but if it's so, the screen is just too small

[Jason @ Aug 18th 2008 10:10AM]

I doubt it. The FCC wouldn't really care about the screen. I'm betting that is the battery.

[imgroupie @ Aug 18th 2008 9:19AM]

derX @ Aug 18th 2008 8:10AM

"I am honestly not getting what TMobile is doing. This phone has the potential to be Tmobile's iPhone and Tmo is just sitting on it. Any tech person knows this phone has great potential to be awesome, so circulating info amongst tech blog sites and the like really isn't doing much: we all know it exists and have formed our opinions already, be they good, bad, or indifferent. How about you tell the masses, Tmo? The form factor has mass appeal. It seem to have a SideKick-ish form but with an easy to use, potentially powerful platform--satisfying the needs of the tween, business person, and techno-savy person alike.

They haven't released few enough details to leave me intrigued and wanting to know more nor have they released enough to have me drooling.

Tmobile, make it work."


Ya I totaly agree , but the thing is.. Google's strategy is to be under teh radar until surprise.
but thats at the cost for evaluating on your potential consumer responses to the prototype product.

So guys DONT DREAD the point is not about the first android phone its about the launch of the platform! There are other top end hardware phones coming out like touch pro or x1 or w/e. If you want different hardware then get different hardware. it will be bound for android to get ported to your handset. Anyways i got me touch pro as plan b and sooner or later Tegra is cumin.

CHeers :)

ps. ill be converting my iphone 2 a gphone hahah

[Frank Furter @ Aug 18th 2008 11:15AM]

This might be the most difficult post I've ever read.

[henrym83 @ Aug 18th 2008 9:20AM]

T-Mobile Only? DOWN WITH EXCLUSIVITY!

[IowaSuby @ Aug 18th 2008 10:33AM]

I thought I read T-Mobile only has an exclusive for 1 week?? Any else read that?

[JerryA @ Aug 18th 2008 10:37AM]

It's not exclusivity. T-Mobile is the first carrier to pick up a phone running Android. Any of the others are welcome to do the same (and I hope they do soon as I love my unlimited EVDO Rev. A for only $15/mo.)

[Setnev @ Aug 18th 2008 9:48PM]

@henrym83

You must be an AT&T subscriber, because if i remember, AT&T is doing the same thing with the iPhone, which if this phone is as great as they say it is, will definitely kill the iPhone and T-Mobile will be the envy the cell phone market. The only difference between the iphone and this is you can unlock it and it still wont work for other carriers if T-Mobile & HTC pick up the 900/1700/2100 band support on the phone.

[bojan @ Aug 18th 2008 9:42AM]

here is the sar info for the device... https://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/oet/forms/blobs/retrieve.cgi?attachment_id=986142&native_or_pdf=pdf

it has a slider, tilt 15 degrease is that a standard test or???

[Benson @ Aug 18th 2008 11:21AM]

"tilt 15 degrease"? I try not to get my phone greasy in the first place, but it's a nice feature, I suppose.

[Scott Hardy @ Aug 18th 2008 9:50AM]

Rich is correct. The stickers are LDI's or Liquid Damage Indicators. If they get tripped and turn red or pink your warranty is null and void. Make sure you get cell phone insurance. I can only imagine the cost of this phone (likely $300 - $400) without the savings of the carrier (AT&T or T-Mobile) subsidy. Paying $5 or $6 a month is 100% worth it, especially if you're a power user and are on the phone constantly.

Anyone know if this will be going to other carriers like Verizon? I'm one of those guys whose family and friends are firmly entrenched on the Verizon network (free mobile to mobile calls) so I won't be switching anytime soon.

Thanks,
Scott Hardy
http://www.topclassactions.com

[imgroupie @ Aug 18th 2008 10:06AM]

from what i know Verizon likes to keep a firm grip over their phones and they probably wont be breaking the walls down until the demand for android on Verizon and atat is very high. Even if Verizon had android they would probably add unwanted customizations and this is not just Verizon but all carriers, this is one of the problems with open platforms. The carrier can still customize it. google is going for tmobile, sprint and probly then atat and verizon.

[Ady @ Aug 18th 2008 10:49AM]

the pic is a wtf though ... 1amp at 5 volts?!!

With the USB power limit being 0.5A for a port, that's an instant motherboard/port fryer, unless you're using a powered usb hub that can provide the current for these.