New pictures released on the Danish website Mobil have revealed that Sony Ericsson may be releasing its new Android-powered phone called the Xperia "Android”. According to the site, the phone is said to have a possible 1GHz processor power thanks to the Qualcomm QSD8250 Snapdragon platform, and is capable of having speeds up to 7.2Mbps on a HSDPA network.
So, when we said that we don’t know when Australia will be getting the phone, well now we know. Both Vodafone Australia and Three have made announcements, on their respective websites, that the new HTC Magic smartphone that has the Android OS on it will be coming to their network.
Vodafone NZ is set to bring in the newest Android phone, the HTC Magic, to New Zealanders in June, announcing it in the morning. While there is no word that Australia will be getting the phone, but Optus is the only carrier selling the only Android phone as of now, the HTC Dream.
Optus has beaten rivals Telstra, Vodafone and 3 Mobile to get the exclusive rights to get the first Android phone in the world, the HTC Dream. The phone is commonly known in the United States as the T-Mobile G1, named after the phone’s exclusive carrier.
If you wanted to get the Kogan Android phone, the first Australian phone that would feature the Android OS; well, you will have to wait a bit longer, as the company announced that it has delayed the phone indefinitely, saying that “potential future interoperability issues” was the reason.
Telstra, being the arrogant telecom they are, have said that the Palm Pre, which has gotten many gadget enthusiasts in love with its compact design, QWERTY keyboard and its new, revolutionary operating system, wasn’t “better and more functional” to the HTC-made Android G1 phone.
So, who wouldn’t like a Android G1, made by HTC? Well, Sprint’s CEO Dan Hesse is being reported by Reuters that he said to the National Press Club that he thinks that the phone, which is an “exclusive” for T-Mobile, is not “good enough to put the Sprint brand on it.” However, it does not mean that they will not sell an Android phone, since they are part of the 30-company alliance to develop it with Google, it’s just that the G1 just isn’t going to be on sale on Sprint’s network.
The Google Android OS has been released, and here is the first phone that will be using it – the T-Mobile G1. Announced at a press conference in New York, it is set to launch on October 22 for US$179 on a two-year contract, or US$399 contract-free. Existing customers will be getting it first, before giving it out to new customers.
The announcement happens to be tomorrow, but T-Mobile in the US just couldn’t help themselves but to release a picture of the phone. Don’t get me wrong, the phone looks great – I just want there to be an element of surprise and shock like Apple does, even though the leak photos were true.
Google Android could be released in five weeks, if a report in The Register is true. A "trusted source" has said that the T-Mobile’s Android, which is produced by HTC in Taiwan, will retail at US$399; and will offer the phone for pre-sale on the 17th September.
Android, Google’s answer to the iPhone OS and Windows Mobile, is expected to be delayed in the second-half of the year; however, its first handset might be delayed until the first quarter of 2009, if a report from Tech Trader Daily is true.
The Wall Street Journal is suggesting that Google’s Android suite of mobile software will be hit with delays after it and 30 other partners are having problem to meet with the deadline of the fourth quarter of 2008.
Cnet is reporting that as part of Monday’s big press conference, Google will unveil their iPhone killer gPhone OS, tentatively codenamed Android. Sources are calling the OS a “a complete mobile-phone software stack” that will be followed shortly after by a SDK (Translation: this isn’t just an ad system and will have more than a bunch of lame web apps).As we mentioned before, CNET affirms that the OS should be open-source and Linux based, but we shouldn’t expect to see it in stores soon. The number of companies involved (over 30) will make it difficult to move quickly on this. I’m just glad that this thing is moving out from the shadowy depths of rumorville. [Cnet via Gadget Lab]