Dopod looking to slap its name on G1 for China next year

We were sorta hoping HTC was going to get straight to work on its next batch of Android handsets post haste after getting the G1 out of the door -- you know, just to close the fashion gap with its WinMo line, if nothing else -- but the word on the street is that it'd like to spread the first-gen love just a little further and wider by hooking up its Dopod subsidiary in China. According to an unnamed Dopod source, the current plan has the G1 going to the Far East "possibly" in the first quarter of '09, featuring radios better suited for China's airwaves -- possibly TD-SCDMA, possibly just EDGE. For what it's worth, Dopod's corporate logo will up the G1's rugged good looks by a factor of ten -- seriously, isn't it awesome? [Warning: Subscription required]

[Via Talk Android]

[Boarderwoot @ Oct 9th 2008 7:48PM]

At first I saw that graphic and I was like, WTF? and then i read the title of the article and was like "ooooh." The name design is pretty sweet but not very effective if people dont know what they're looking at...

[James @ Oct 9th 2008 8:42PM]

Yeah at first glance i thought this was going to be a keeping it real fake article.

[noyp @ Oct 9th 2008 11:23PM]

Um, they've been around for a while.

[MyHeadisFed @ Oct 9th 2008 8:00PM]

I do not live in China.

[CUBSWILLWIN @ Oct 9th 2008 8:12PM]

I do not live on this planet... SURRENDER YOUR BITCHES!

[telepheedian @ Oct 9th 2008 8:14PM]

There is a tree outside my window.

[Nick J @ Oct 9th 2008 8:15PM]

@ cubswillwin

so...all your phone are belong to us?

[The Dude @ Oct 9th 2008 8:20PM]

@CUBSWILLWIN:

So, who's playing in the NLCS tonight? Remember what I said a few weeks ago? :D

[James @ Oct 9th 2008 8:38PM]

Actually who are playing? And even more who cares about MLB at all anymore?

[MyHeadisFed @ Oct 9th 2008 8:17PM]

@telepheedian. Give me your drugs.

[James @ Oct 9th 2008 8:41PM]

L2Reply

[daem @ Oct 9th 2008 8:31PM]

Ummm, it's still a hideous phone that is even worse than an iPhone

[McPOW @ Oct 9th 2008 9:15PM]

And you are still a douche

[James @ Oct 9th 2008 8:34PM]

A cheap ripoff g1 coming from china next week.

[Peter @ Oct 9th 2008 9:02PM]

"Dopod's corporate logo will up the G1's rugged good looks by a factor of ten"

You're being sarcastic right?

[ethana2 @ Oct 9th 2008 9:41PM]

Don't count on it, slimeball.

[ethana2 @ Oct 9th 2008 9:46PM]

....By the way, google that in quotes before you take it personally.

[CUBSWILLWIN @ Oct 9th 2008 10:25PM]

I googled it, and got a Bill Maher article that has nothing to do with that quote. Now can I take it personally?

[ethana2 @ Oct 9th 2008 10:32PM]

Oh, nevermind. It's just this thing about Anakin and Sebulba... first thing that popped into my head pretty much.
But really, who names their product 'dopod'?! What??

[lorddshadow @ Oct 10th 2008 12:45AM]

whoa hold on there tiger! rule 1: never make a very slightly obscure reference to a movie everyone wants to forget...the horror...the horror!!! episode 1 was one of the biggest disappointments of my young life.

[ethana2 @ Oct 10th 2008 12:48AM]

We took my grandma out to see Episode Three a while back..

She said it had great side effects.

[sio @ Oct 9th 2008 11:58PM]

hey I like turtles

[Josh G @ Oct 10th 2008 1:27AM]

Do you all really not know who Dopod is? Only rebranded HTC... they've been around for ages in the rest of the world [more specifically, the asia pacific area].

[cromas @ Oct 10th 2008 2:12AM]

Logo looks like "dopoo"...

[chickenator @ Oct 10th 2008 5:36AM]

dogpoo

[Waroxy Future @ Oct 10th 2008 3:02AM]

TD-SCDMA is what they call 3G in China, it is almost same as we call 3G in US. China Mobile wants to make the network name special.