HTC Dream coming to T-Mobile UK in November?

We don't have any idea where this information came from, but the Telegraph is reporting today that the HTC Dream will launch on T-Mobile UK sometime in November. That's the same time frame we've heard before, and it certainly seems like El Goog's first Android phone is close to its debut, so it's definitely plausible, but we'd still take this one with a grain of salt -- even though we want this thing yesterday.

[Via Talk Android; thanks Chris]

[zomg0t @ Sep 8th 2008 12:20PM]

maybe, but it wont sell


http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10029608-16.html

[zomg0t @ Sep 8th 2008 12:26PM]

One question: Why me?

[zomg0t @ Sep 8th 2008 12:28PM]

Edit: i mean why me, why do i have to read about android posts ;(
android sucks

[Major4Play @ Sep 8th 2008 12:49PM]

And maybe we shoudl just wait and see instead of creaming about overpriced iPhones.

I really want an Android phone and so do most geeks I know, also looking forward to developing for it.

But then real geeks don't quote CNET

[cayton @ Sep 8th 2008 12:50PM]

Maybe, but I'm still in for one.

Two 'news sources' on the internet, does not a proof make. Looks more like idle speculation to me.

[riggs @ Sep 8th 2008 1:10PM]

thats how i feel about your post.

[Muhammed @ Sep 8th 2008 1:43PM]

I've seen enough demos of how to setup android on any WM phone

So I'm pretty keen on giving it a try on the touch pro which I'll hopefully get soon.

[zomg0t @ Sep 8th 2008 12:24PM]

oh, here is more proof, sorry google, but you cant win in this market

http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/9/google-s-android-gphone-already-a-flop

[asdf @ Sep 8th 2008 12:43PM]

lol 'proof'...

I played with one yesterday, the UI was at least as good as the iPhone and it was the first touchscreen phone which behaved just as well as the iPhone. The biggest downside was that the version I saw didn't have a 3.5mm headphone jack... but it does have micro-SD.

It is definitely a good alternative for those who don't want the iPhone or to be locked into AT&T's network. I would say it will just come down to price.

[cayton @ Sep 8th 2008 12:52PM]

Any word of other carriers? ATT is the best choice for where I live, because I really would like to use this phone

[Bdad @ Sep 8th 2008 2:18PM]

why do you continue to try?

[aaron @ Sep 8th 2008 12:29PM]

F-U-G-L-Y

[CAHLITO @ Sep 8th 2008 12:45PM]

hmm... kind of like your avatar

[aaron @ Sep 8th 2008 12:47PM]

@Cahlito

True...but that was my intention.

[TareX @ Sep 8th 2008 1:23PM]

Still waiting for HTC to wow us with the real finished product....

[JerryA @ Sep 8th 2008 1:29PM]

What's fugly? HTC's updated-hiptop design for TMo or Google's Android OS. This phone is kinda mediocre looking but I haven't used one yet so I can't vouch for the actual user experience. The OS is very promising and it's bringing the finger friendly interface to a more open OS which is good. Lots of us love the expandability and amount of software for WinMo devices but ever since the iPhone did finger-friendly well, it's all that people want to buy. This seems like a way to get the power of WinMo with a user-friendly (ie, you poke at it with your grubby fingers instead of a stylus) interface.

[Deed @ Sep 8th 2008 1:34PM]

I first saw this device and thought it looked overly barebones and like a crappy cheap toy.

After a few looks over this, I actually think it looks kind of nice in an it'll-just-work-ergonomically kind of way. I imagine that those keys will be nice to type on, and in a not horrifically yellow light I imagine it would look aesthetically a bit like a DS Lite when slid shut--toylike, but otherwise clean and friendly.

My two pence.

[TareX @ Sep 8th 2008 2:15PM]

@ Deed

You're absolutely right. I'm sure this phone will be extremely functional in every possible way. But this is not what people, including both you and I, demand. We want phones that look nice, and that people around you think looks nice.

I don't want to hold a huge shapeless lump of plastic at work, and tell people, yeah but it's really functional.

And for heaven's sake this is the FIRST ANDROID PHONE. You'd think they'd make it look more attractive. I'm not talking Diamond or iPhone attractive, but at least something that COMPARES.

[Trevsweb @ Sep 8th 2008 12:37PM]

droolage :D cant wait for android

[CAHLITO @ Sep 8th 2008 12:44PM]

iPhone is better.. hopefully this is better than WM..
I saw some running a iTunes coverflow type thing on their tilt.... LMAO

[chickenator @ Sep 8th 2008 2:43PM]

diz is engadget, u r lowranked.

[RWD @ Sep 8th 2008 12:47PM]

personally i think it's an incredibly bad looking phone, without wanting to, comparing this phone on looks alone, well you can guess the winner.

Will android actually be any good? how much are companies(providers) like T-mobile (one of the most expensive in the uk, second to vodaphone i think) going to charge for this 'os' and how open will it actually be?

when i finally upgrade from my 5 year old motorola i'm hoping this os and competing ones (particually apple and winmo 7) will be further establish and groundbreaking so i can have a good tough decision, at the moment no phone but the touch diamond interests me.

[TareX @ Sep 8th 2008 1:32PM]

So you're updating from a 5-year old phone??

Well I'd wait and get a WM7 phone in your case. With the next-gen OS and NVidia Tegra gfx processor, I'm sure the upgrade will be worthwile.

Unless you're completely obsessed by Android, I don't think the hardware or software is a decent 1.0 device just yet.

[RWD @ Sep 8th 2008 3:52PM]

thanks :)

yeah im very behind on the technology side of phones, although mine does have a vga colour camera ;) ooh yeah!

but yeah i do like the look and sound of winmo 7, i'm into the whole software mods and such, and as open as android may be, windows kind of has a big set of independent programming for it.

[cmil1212 @ Sep 8th 2008 1:01PM]

wow, that's one ugly phone..

[zephxiii @ Sep 8th 2008 1:04PM]

The hardware for this particular unit is ugly, indeed, the OS, however, is not :D

[BOGRASH @ Sep 8th 2008 1:10PM]

'Nightmare' would have been more appropriate

[7on @ Sep 8th 2008 1:42PM]

That's the black model

[Skeepax @ Sep 8th 2008 1:11PM]

I don't think its ugly, but how do you get your right thumb around the big base section? Other sliders have the buttons and d-pad attached to the screen section to solve this.

[PHO @ Sep 8th 2008 1:25PM]

Haha, what is it? 2006 again? My god, why do manufacturers develop and market chunky pieces of plastic like this... also the operating system is nothing special, sort of reminds me of windows 95, with ubuntu windows... But Google is good at creating "modernized" minimalistic pieces of software that can run on pretty much everything so I guess it appeals to poor people who cant afford a good phone.

[andrew @ Sep 8th 2008 1:44PM]

so now people are poor because they don't want an iPhone or blackberry or WiMo phone?

It's called choice.

[sockatume @ Sep 8th 2008 4:12PM]

I also like the implication that Google could do a high-quality OS on relatively cheap hardware, and somehow that's a bad thing because it'd be easy for "poor people" to own. Heaven forbid that somebody produce a good product which people can actually afford to buy. You might lose that special uniqueness that comes with being the only guy in your college who can afford an iPhone.

[Minilap @ Sep 8th 2008 1:28PM]

Who cares what you heard Engadget. Your sources are wrong most of the times anyways.

[mickutz @ Sep 8th 2008 2:06PM]

why would the first Android phone be cute, edge-cutting, pretty, slick, expensive... or whatever other adjectives you could use to describe a phone? who would buy an expensive Android phone? not me.... as being a new os for mobile platforms they will need guinea pigs to develop platform and apps... and they will do that 1, 2 or 3 ugly and cheap phones. no one is stupid enough to spend to much money on an uncertain thing
in 6-8 months from dream's launching you will definitely see Diamond like Android phones
us, europeans won't understand the american Apple "myth" ... there are other nice or nicer things then Apple products

maybe android phones won't have as much succes as the iphone had in it's first year, but it will certainly be an alternative for the evercrushing WM and seeing HTC's growth in the past 2 years (when touch was released they were almost unknown), the Android step is going to be another succes for them

I have tried the Android with an emulator on my pc and I was quite impressed about it and I can't wait to put my hands on a phone running Android even if here they will come a lot later then the res of the world

[Patriks7 @ Sep 8th 2008 1:46PM]

ok HTC
you've shown us the kids version of the Android phone
where's the version for the rest of us?

[KilgoreTrout @ Sep 8th 2008 1:50PM]

I can easily live with it, what will make me change my nokia N95 8GB with this thing instead of the SE X1 experia or (most probably) the Samsung Omnia (when next month they will be available in my backward scandinavian land) will be what features it has or it has'nt got, and how well it manages them.
AGPS?
Touch screen with good interface?
GB of memory?
WIFI/bluetooth/Husdpa/WImax?
Mpix of video/still camera?
DTV-B?
Stereo speakers/handfree
screen resolution?
Accelerometer (or whatever the dam thing is called)?
Games/toys/entartrainament?
Watts of the microoven?
Assorted bullshit?
I mean these are the dealmakers for guys like me.

[KilgoreTrout @ Sep 8th 2008 1:51PM]

I can easily live with it, what will make me change my nokia N95 8GB with this thing instead of the SE X1 experia or (most probably) the Samsung Omnia (when next month they will be available in my backward scandinavian land) will be what features it has or it has'nt got, and how well it manages them.
AGPS?
Touch screen with good interface?
GB of memory?
WIFI/bluetooth/Husdpa/WImax?
Mpix of video/still camera?
DTV-B?
Stereo speakers/handfree
screen resolution?
Accelerometer (or whatever the dam thing is called)?
Games/toys/entartrainament?
Watts of the microoven?
Assorted bullshit?
I mean these are the dealmakers for guys like me.

[cmil1212 @ Sep 8th 2008 2:16PM]

Who wants an ad driven OS? Apple's is too laggy and bloated and dependent on snoozetunes. I'll stick with WM which is actually productive..

[chickenator @ Sep 8th 2008 2:45PM]

lol we got a winner!

[TareX @ Sep 8th 2008 3:25PM]

That's the first time I see someone call the iPhone laggy in comparison to WM.

We have a saying: "You live and see".

[Imran @ Sep 8th 2008 2:27PM]

I'm interested to see how they will market this to non geek consumers... Us geeks are looking forward to this but to the non geek this is just another phone with the standard features :-/

[TareX @ Sep 8th 2008 3:26PM]

Oh I can't imagine ANY NON-GEEK wanting this lump of plastic.

[diego @ Sep 8th 2008 2:42PM]

Nice design. A pity that is only more than seven years late.

[monkfishbandana @ Sep 8th 2008 6:09PM]

I hope this isn't true, although it probably is. T-Mobile have rubbish coverage in the UK - release it on O2 or Orange for goodness sakes!

P.S - HTC, try harder. Anyone who sees this won't have thought that you'd have come up with the Touch Diamond or the Pro.

[taylor @ Sep 8th 2008 10:34PM]

does anyone know if you can put windows mobile on the android. i keep hearing about linux but i am not familar with linux and when i google it the results are chinese to me. explanation anyone?

[beachdude @ Sep 13th 2008 11:58AM]

http://tmobilehtcdream.com/