Rogers Wireless' Dream un-safing and hands-on
By Sean Cooper 
posted May 23rd 2009 10:56PM
posted May 23rd 2009 10:56PM
So, Friday rolls around complete with cryptic "you'll get something awesome tomorrow" message from Rogers. Of course we bite, and something awesome did show just after lunch today. Rogers first Android sets launch on the June 2 with both HTC's Dream and Magic taking center stage to usher in the OS' proper christening north of the border. Bundled in the safety of the fireproof (yes, fireproof) safe are a charger, USB cable, headset, and the HTC Dream proper. While T-Mobile's patrons south of the border wait for version 1.5 to arrive, Rogers seems set to launch the devices with the latest build already loaded and good to go. We've not had more than a few hours with the phone, but we're loving it -- and the fact that we finally have an Android device for the US 3G flavor we love doesn't hurt either. Pricing is still firmly in the land of chalk drawings, but we've heard tell that $199 would be the price of admission -- and to be honest, that seems about what we'd expect. Follow on for a pile of pics of the un-safing of Rogers first steps in the land of Android.
Looks nae bad like.
Is that the actual packaging?
Care do dump that system folder for the folks over on XDA-Developers.com?
Pretty awesome publicity stunt
a three year old can open those safes with a butter knife.
I would love that phone if it was half the thickness.
so i see that the white dream has different button layout from the black (G1)
is rogers only getting one color for each phone?
So does it support AT&T 3G?
That'd be awesome if phones actually got delivered in safes...
OK if they are shipping these things in safes I would now have to believe that all the hubbub about rogers screwing over their customers has to be true. The shipping of an honest to god safe is expensive as all fuck. I know. We did it after that insurance company went and lost those backup tapes in '03 or so. Just after that the bosses got stupidly twitchy about shipping even AES encrypted backup tapes. So they had us ship them in mini safes like the one pictured above. That occurred 3 times before they realized how much the weight of the thing factored into the shipping.
But ya. Unless this is an Engadget special promotional package. My assumption would be that they have WAY too much money on their hands.