Mysterious HTC Android phone spied, might lean the way of the Dragon
By Ross Miller 
posted October 18th 2009 7:52PM
posted October 18th 2009 7:52PM
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Based on design alone, it looks as if it's going to Sprint.
Very sprint looking.
It says 3g in the status bar, not ev-do, so i doubt it. Hopefully t-mobile bound.
@Bryan
maybe verizon....since VZW is changing all its 3G phones from saying EV to 3G
How can you tell it's Sprint? Button layout? Looks pretty generic to me...
Android sucks.
ZuneHD rulezzz!!!
It's T-Mobile or AT&T, judging by the 3G on the top bar, and I REALLY doubt it's its AT&T, so yeah, it's headed to T-Mobile.
Count in one more Droid for T-Mobile.
it's closer to the Sprint hero than the classic Android HTC looks
@Mmmm
Uh...what does the Zune HD have to do with this...
strangles mmm? with my iPod ear-buds (because that's all their good for)
go home troll-boy
because tmobile needs more android phones. PLEASE at&t!!! im so sick of the iphone... and cant switch to another provider.
Has anyone thought that this is still a test phone and that its using Gsm as a test
It could very well be Verizon/Sprints. This is probably the cheapest way to test this phone.
@jehxone: Ha!.
And im with Cursive08 on this one. im tired of the bs on at&t. I just want a damn phone than isnt all fucked up by at&t. Besides this thing looks sexy and im looking forward to that Snapdragon beast
@mmm lolwut
It looks nice, if not a little vanilla.
Your an ass wipe
Very sexy device. I'll take four.
I've been reading up on the HTC Dragon and from the looks of it it won't be packing a Snapdragon but rather a 1GHZ TI Omap (I think 3) processor.
Doesn't look as big as HD2. And no chin?
looks like it might be the same height but less width.....the list of possible phones to replace my 3gs grows (unless apple almost completely reworks their homepage UI)
I do see code for Snapdragon in the latest kernel tress for Android, but then again, there's the Acer Liquid.
Going to build Snapdragon support in the latest version of my CPU clocking app ;)
does the pink + sign mean anything here ??? t-mobile ??? :D
I have never used an android phone....so i donot know whether that pink plus sign is default to android.
atlast....some good news....
android 2.0 ....project dark .....new android phones from htc ......dragon rumours....all falling together
It's a red cross that says Emergency Call.
Feel free to keep foaming at the mouth.
It means you're gonna have a baby.
GOOOOO VERIZON!!
I REALLY hope this is for T-Mobile. Hopefully they announce it along with Project Dark.
i hope so too
I hope they release a mobile game platform centered around a new version of Perfect Dark. What? A man can dream....
T-Mobile = Android Czar
Eh..... different colors could make it look pretty nice. Looks pretty 90's-ish.
Man these guys are churning the out quick.
SE needs to take notice
Damn right.
Well, SE is just about to roll-out Rachael [sic] -- an Xperia with Android. I believe the major announcement re availability etc are due within two weeks?
You're welcome Engadget. De nada :) I am Tikiteko the Geek Scout :D
What is interesting is that if you link to the extra pictures, you can definitely see clearly etched into the back of the phone "with Google". No Sense UI? That's a weird move. Maybe that means it is going to a carrier that has yet to carry an Android device. Every carrier except Sprint has a stock-android Android phone, and Sprint phones don't have "3G" written in the connection bar they have "EV" so... AT&T? But Google and AT&T are not on the best terms right now. AT&T Really needs to step up their game on the Android front. No one says I can't dream!
you know the "with google" thing has nothing to do with sense UI right???
The Sprint Hero has "With Google" printed on the back on the phone and also on the front of the box and has sense UI .... FYI
Actually, only some of them do. It, apparently, was a mistake.
You are wrong about the "with Google" text not being on Sense UI phones.
Read this: http://www.droiddog.com/android-blog/2009/10/the-difference-in-with-google-heroes/
Actually the search button is a requirement for any google experience phone.
So it cannot have sense ui.
@Vincent - Your comment doesn't make much sense. There is a search button on the Hero, it has Sense UI, and has the "with Google" label on the back of it.
@ brian
correct, i forgot about the hero. Is there another way to distinguish google experience phones from the other android phones ?
Another question: do you know if a hero buyer has to wait for htc to release an update with 1.6 for example or is the 1.6 a patch that only updates certain files ?
Problem is, HTC doesn't sell unlocked phones here >.>
In European regions.
I like this.
yea, the with google on the back means no sense UI, i'm guessing verizon since they are releasing those new android phones with google, so they will probably all be "with google" devices.
my tour says 3G on it instead of EV, so maybe they're changing the naming on the devices to something more consumer recognizable...
You're actually quite WRONG about that.
Only the first HTC Hero phones on Sprint don't have 'with Google' printed on them. The NEWER ones DO have it printed as they WANT them to be labeled as Google Experience.
And they DO HAVE SENSE UI, too.
Trust me, I own one.
This baby is coming to tmo.you didn't hear it from me;)
Such a sexy looking phone, that screen size is nice.
So since it says 3G instead of EV, that eliminates Sprint as a possible carrier for this phone.
That leaves ATT, Big Red, & Team Magenta. I Bet it'll hit Verizon or T-Mobile though.
Not so...the Moto Droid has the '3G' indicator (it's top bar is identical to this)...and also Verizon's Touch Pro 2 and Imagio say '3G' as well instead of the old 1XEV