The good news is that T-Mobile USA has finally gotten around to announce its second
Android handset, the
myTouch 3G; the bad news, though, is that you can't have it just yet. The carrier-customized version of the HTC
Magic that has already shipped in parts of Europe, Asia, and Canada features a 3.2-inch 480 x 320 touchscreen, AWS 3G for use on T-Mobile's high-speed network paired with quadband EDGE for global roaming, WiFi, a 3.2 megapixel camera, Exchange support, and -- of course -- Android 1.5 with all the virtual keyboardin' you can handle. Better than the
G1? Other than the larger internal memory common to all Magics, that's strictly a matter of personal taste -- but don't worry, you'll have a while to sort it out, because T-Mobile won't even start taking preorders from current customers until July 8 for $199.99 on a two-year contract. Those orders will start shipping in late July, with full national availability following on in early August in your choice of black, white, or "merlot."
posted Jun 22nd 2009 12:01AM
that red is god awful.
Sir, that is not red. It's Merlot. LEARN YOUR WINES!
my wines come in boxes, so i dont know what they look like... DRINKIN FROM THE SPOUT FOR LIFE!
... if anyone orders Merlot, I'm leaving. I am NOT drinking any f'n MERLOT!
I'll have Merlot. I love merlot! I live for merlot! We're out of merlot.
Screw the Merlot. Where's the Boones Farm Apple phone?
That's the thing about opinions and assholes... that's your opinion, and you're an asshole.
Let me show you how this is done. First thing, hold the glass up and examine the wine against the light. You're looking for color and clarity. Just, get a sense of it. OK? Uhh, thick? Thin? Watery? Syrupy? OK? Alright. Now, tip it. What you're doing here is checking for color density as it thins out towards the rim. Uhh, that's gonna tell you how old it is, among other things. It's usually more important with reds. OK? Now, stick your nose in it. Don't be shy, really get your nose in there. Mmm... a little citrus... maybe some strawberry...
[smacks lips]
I'm usually one that sticks with the professional looking black phones, but I'm really digging the merlot. I can't help it.
... are you chewing gum?!
speaking of wines in relation to the mytouch colors if merlot is to red then is the white one chardonnay and the black one port???
And it belongs to Toys-R-Us.. :)
@KeatMP
+1 for Seinfeld ref..
Aaaaaaaaaaaaah so sexy. I wish I was on T-Mo instead of AT&T.
Yeah so you can have crappy 3g reception like my friend has. And 2g performance is crap also.
don't really know why you think tmo service sucks. if you're not in a city that has 3G yet, sure, but here in dallas (and in san antonio and austin as well) i get 3-4 3G bars everywhere, and on the offchance that I need to save battery and use only 2G, i get 4 2G bars everywhere I go (save inside buildings).
from my experience, my data is usually faster than any of my friends who have an iphone. at&t's network is just too overloaded.
I've had a much better experience in Chicago with T-Mobiles 3g than AT&T's.
@ Zen
I don't know where you have been in Austin, but the service is terrible around UT campus. I can not get signal at all in most buildings. Same goes for Houston. I know tons of people with Iphones that get much better service than I do.
Maybe you need to get a quad-band phone? You cannot blame all reception problems on the provider. I live in Canada and am on the Rogers network and had crap for reception for a really long time because most of the phones Rogers carried were tri-band. About 3 years ago, I bought my first quad-band phone and my reception has been immaculate no matter where I go.
It's sadly the case where most carriers provide A LOT of tri-band phones but not enough quad-bands.
It used to be that my reception was utter garbage at work, now I get 4 bars! If you have bad reception, get a handset with the 850MHz frequency. The short wavelength will allow more signal to travel through dense areas and buildings.
Now, I make sure that all my phones are quad-band, from my Samsungs of yesteryear, to my current Nokia 3120c 3G to my Nokia E71 that is currently in shipping and on its way! =)
@GFX
Tennessee was UT before Texas was a country.
@Wii60 & Cisco had the name iPhone before Apple. But if you refer to an iPhone, 99.99% will think you're referring to Apple's.
Just sayin'
Hook'em.
Import it from Canada. Rogers Wireless has this phone running on 850/1900 for 3G which are the same bands that AT&T uses. I'm getting mine in the mail in the next day or so if not today.
Why can't they ship a decent Android device with a modern CPU and GPU??? This is still stuck with a ~500mhz ARM11 and mediocre graphics.
This is really one of the worst names for a phone I've ever seen. At least the specs are nice.
Would you prefer touchMy?
I'd prefer the HTC Magic!
Then call it the HTC Magic. Call the G1 the HTC Dream. Carrier branding is all bullshit in the end.
Oh wow. Thanks for making my day donuts!
Well they couldn't have G2 because of Gatorade...
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
That's what she said!
@barry99705,
...when faking it, LOL!
Now for a sane response, LOL
I'm kind of upset we have to wait til August to get our hands on this. But if the Huawei U8230 hasn't gotten any significant details by then...I will most certainly make this the next handset for me...
lol @ your first comment.
I will try it out when a demo is available in a T-Mobile store. I still love my G1 a lot and gotten use to a physical keyboard. Also I may have to buy at full price since I extended my contract back in September for the G1....
Unfortunately, Louisville isn't getting T-Mobile 3G goodness till later this year.
So they don't see fit enough to supply us with working models in most stores =|
But when we get 3G...I'll be so happy.
I miss my AT&T days of simultaneous voice and data.
So you are getting this? Why is your avatar a Touch Pro 2?
I love the design of the Touch Pro 2...
And if you notice, my s/n is pays honor to Apple also =]
What happened to the 5MP camera?
Um yes, WTF what happened? TMoNews and other sites seemed to be confirming that the T-Mo USA branded myTouch had 5.0 MP camera. How reliable is the info posted here?
>> "What happened to the 5MP camera?"
What happened to megapixels not being the most important part of digital photography? Remember the myth?
A 3.2MP camera will make a 2048 x 1536 image.
Even if they could cram 5 or 8 million pixels into the tiny sensor... you wouldn't like the results.
@Michael Scrip : Every single 5MP phone out there takes better, more detailed pics than the 3.2MP ones out there. And the 8MP ones take better pics than them, in turn. Stop jumping on the anti-megapixel bandwagon because it's the cool thing to do. Along with an increase in megapixels, a lot more goes into the newer sensors. A lot more like better optics,, better processing algorithm etc.
Phones like the Samsung Innov8 and the SE C905 would leave ANY 3.2 MP phone in the dust and that's a fact.
Everything you say is true, but you're still taking pictures with a ridiculously small chip. Sensor size matters! :P
How come a Android phone from HTC costs only $200 here with a contract but the HTC touch pro2 will cost like $400?
I would get this if I was on T-Mobile or at least look into it.
Bc Android is FREE and Winmo is not.....
Winmo is like 10 bucks man, it hardly puts a hump on the cost of the device.
I was waiting for this phone to come out for tmo but it took so long...I went with the Pre instead.
damnit i wanted a 5mp camera! :(
Ugh...why must Android be locked in with T-Mobile? Their data coverage sucks... Good luck getting 3G on that thing...
If you really must have Android, you could always buy an unlocked HTC Magic and use it on AT&T.
tmobiless 3g is just ass good ass att 3g,
Don't worry 3G sucks nearly as much as EDGE does anyway.
I have no problems with my 3G service here in Philadelphia, and I traveled down to Baltimore last night and 3G service was alive and plentiful there as well. T-Mobile has been improving their 3G coverage a lot for the past year. I get full bars most of the time throughout Philly, whereas before I got 2-3 at best.
I am driving up to NYC on Friday, and I will double-check the coverage map on my route, but I don't see me having any issues staying on 3G throughout the trip.
tmobiles fine if you live in a average big city as i do.
3G works very nicely for me too. But clearly you don't have a Tmo phone and you are just spouting off.
Like seriously people. T-Mobile is quickly becoming to have a better 3G network than AT&T. Here in Phoenix, I get anywhere from 3-4 bars on 3G with my G1 and, using Speedtest.net with my phone wirelessly tethered, I get anywhere from 1.5-2Mbps download speeds, which is faster than your basic cable service internet. It is faster than Verizon's and AT&T's 3G networks here in Phoenix and I can prove it with screenshots from my G1.
So telling me that their 3G network is crap just makes you look like an uninformed dick. Sure, it may not be everywhere, but I would much rather have a fast 3G connection where I actually use it, than an ok connection where i use it.
@Shiz
skyblaze addin' to the philly love... 3G's fine for me too.. cuts over to edge every now and then at the house but that doesnt really matter since i use wifi there :)... i head to jersey about every weekend too and stay at 3 to 4 bars.. so it's all good, ya digg
I've had fantastic 3G coverage with my G1 in San Francisco, LA, Boston and Detroit. About the only time it switches to edge is when I'm in a big brick/concrete building or underground.
Is there a way to turn off all the cell phone stories?
IMHO $200 on-contract is a bit ambitious for T-Mobile. Was hoping for $150.
But it's the cutest T-Mobile Android in the WURLD no homo
I think the "cutest" would have to go to that God awful kiddie Moto Morrison...
Just thinking about it make me shudder in fear of kittens and rabbits popping out.
I agree. Smartone-vodafone in Hong Kong is pushing it as the HTC Magic (simple, eh? It's Magic!!) at $0 with a $50USD data plan with 1500 minutes included (you can also opt for a 500MB monthly plan for $40 I think).
It is odd, considering it is a slicker G1 with a little more RAM and a little less keyboard. I would have expected at most 179.99. People who don't follow this will walk into the store, and see one with a keyboard and one without. This could backfire a bit.
it does look huge but it really isn’t that big!
i had a lil go on one today at the T Mobile store & loved it! i’ll probably get one in the new year!
I think im the only one here that is ok with having to wait until August for this phone, because im not eligible to upgrade at new-contract price until August anyway. Ill take one in black
T-Mobile announcements are so unexpecting.
Where's the processor upgrade? Good luck competing with the Palm Pre and 3GS at that price point. This new smart phone is twice as slow as the competition.
Lord...
-facepalm-
Wow..you phail Kevin.
600 mHz = not even close to 2x as fast as the 528 mHz in the myTouch 3G
these replies make me tired...
Dear m3tric, iDavey and rta,
Processor speeds? Do I care? Not a bit. When anandtech.com points out that my G1 takes twice the time that the Palm Pre and iPhone 3GS do to load a page, I do care. The G1 needs more power and more optimized code.
http://www.anandtech.com/gadgets/showdoc.aspx?i=3587
For anyone who has clicked on the read link...and has a G1
Do you know of this Sherpa app...How is this a featured app yet not available in the market =\
I'd really like that app...
why in the world must they make the SEND and END keys so small and the others so large? I use the SEND and END keys 1000 times more than the home, back and search, wtf HTC????
So this phone won't drop until August. That means we can expect the Samsung Galaxy/i7500 sometime in 2011, amirite?
Seriously, what a complete and utter fail by T-Mobile. It took them 3 additional months just to release the same exact phone as the HTC Magic in Europe. They didn't upgrade the camera or do a damn thing...I'm kinda pissed I wasted so much time researching this stupid phone now.
They did some software changes that at on to the base of the android OS. Still i agree it took way to long.
This has been with Rogers in Canada since the beginning of this month. Honestly we're getting better phones than the US now... Rogers now has the xperia x1, c905, iphone, and htc dream and magic (G1 and G2)... awesome phones
that tiger on the black phone is like "...sup?"
Ha!
Dammit! You made me lol in the wee hours of the night. This cannot be good for my colon.
This phone is sweet but it is a little late to the dance. I would pick it up but I think I will wait for the holiday season until something a bit more juicy comes out... like the Huawei device or whatever else out of those 18 phones that will work on the T-mo network
Whatever out of those 18 phones(as long as) they are compatible with the T-mo networks
Wow, if the myTouch 3g really offers Exchange support, this phone could definitely start popping up in the corporate environments. I really love my G1, I love where Android is heading, and I think this phone is pretty dang sexy. I am excited, however, I would like to see when Samsung's i7500 is at on T-Mo's timeline since it boasts an AMOLED screen.
No way they will sell too many of these at that price, the specs aren't that great. Plus everyone is still on contract from the first android phone. I doubt many break it to get this, im sure you can load the same OS on the current G1
There's people like me out there who've been interested in Android from the start but didn't like the G1, so are waiting for something else.
@m3tric @ Jun 22nd 2009 12:42AM
"600 mHz = not even close to 2x as fast as the 528 mHz in the myTouch 3G"
How the hell you gonna compare that qualcomm piece of crap to a A8 Cortex running the pre and 3gs.
Get your facts straight. One more thing, you are a moron.
while the 528 mhz qualcomm is not great, it is multimillion times better than the TI OMAP 200mhz that the other HTC T-Mobile smartphones use (Dash, Shadow and Wing).
Exchange Support? Says who? I didn't see it on the site anywhere, and Google has confirmed that there will be NO Exchange support in "google experience" phones, which this is, correct? So what gives with the Exchange support mention in the article?
Can anyone confirm or deny UMA (Hotspot@Home) Please
The FCC has yet to approve anything that is HSDPA/UMTS and UMA. Don't know why.
Here is the link that claimed it would have WiFi with UMA on this phone
http://www.cellphonesignal.com/htc-magic-passes-fcc-heads-to-t-mobiles-shelves/
I'll stick to my g1 simply because of the keypad, and I can use the OSK if I'd like to
Oh look they've got a wallpaper to represent every OS. Tux for Linux, a tiger for OS X, and baboons for Windows.
Yeah...that's not a baboon.
OH man, that comment is pure gold! LoL.
lmfaoo..amazing..
Enough with the whining about the lack of a 5mp camera. You want to take a quality picture? Buy a camera! Even if the phone can take a 12mp picture, it's still going to be a shit telephone picture.
1st, the hardware is still underpowered.
2nd, no qwerty means pain in the ass cli.
3rd, the soft keyboard really sucks unless you've got really skinny fingers.
4th, the faster hardware should have been in the G1 to begin with.
Why do manufacturers always under-power their handsets?
I hope for existing customers its still $200 dollars, as don't make me wait another year to upgrade my handset, got one year left on my 2 year term, would be happy to put another 2 years if they let me upgrade for the $200 price.
Profit
Why are so many people crying out that "5 Mpixel will still suck on a mobile!" ?
The difference from 2 to 3.2 was very noticable, and granted it will still be lower quality than any point and shoot camera, it is still a step in the right direction. We are not expecting good 5 Mpixel pictures, but still noticeably better than 3.2.
Remember when they went up from 640x480 to 1 Mpixel on cellphones? Still crap pictures, but a lot better.