Well, that is the rumor at least. According to AndroidCentral, the above image is of a new phone for T-Mobile being called the “MyTouch 3G HD”. This device is also being rumored to possibly be the new HSPA+ phone that has been talked about lately as the HTC Vision/Blaze/Vangaurd. They are also saying that it does resemble the silhouette that T-Mobile put on their teaser page for their first HSPA+ phone (which if you make the phone face the other way, it kinda does actually).

If the image above is an actual device, then it looks like we have a nice sized screen (hence the HD moniker). And if it is the HTC Vision than the rumor is it’ll be 3.7″ or so. We also have the normal Home, Menu, Back, then “Genius” button at the bottom and a trackpad. The button on the side of the device would be either a lock button or, more likely, a dedicated camera button. And an interesting little thing you might notice is what looks like a front facing camera at the top right…

Anyone on T-Mobile excited?

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I. Before You Begin

1. This will root your device so you can use root required applications (like WiFi Tether etc). This will NOT allow you to flash custom ROMs, yet…

II. Root the Phone

1. Download the Root .zip file

DroidXRoot.zip

2. On your phone, go to Settings > Applications > Development > USB Debugging > and make sure it is checked ON.

3. Plug your phone in to the computer via USB and select Charge Only when it pops up on the phone’s screen.

4. Unzip the DroidXRoot.zip file and extract it’s content somewhere on the computer.

5. Right click the DroidRootX.exe file and select Run As Administrator (if using XP just double click it)

6. Click the Root Me button and wait for it to finish. Enjoy!

So Dell has announced that they are ready to start pre-selling the Dell Streak tomorrow from Dell.com/Streak. While this is great new for AT&T users, for which the Streak will have full support for their 3G network, but they also announced that “At this point, we do not have plans for supporting T-Mobile’s 3G network; Dell Streak will not be certified for T-Mobile operation overall.” So T-Mobile users are kind of out of the picture for this device (unless you only use Wifi and/or are happy with just EDGE internet, then in that case…).

This comes as kind of a shock since Dell’s FCC filings for T-Mobile’s AWS 3G frequencies were found a while back.

No one can confirm if this means there will not be a T-Mobile version at all and they just filed for the FCC patent while they deciding on what frequencies to put in “just in case”, or if there might be a T-Mobile version later on. Judging by the comment from Dell though, I’d say a T-Mobile version is looking more and more like it just won’t happen.

Any AT&T users picking one up?

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I. Before You Begin

1. You MUST have done our How To Root the HTC Incredible (Unrevoked Method) procedure before doing this one.

II. Loading a Custom ROM

1. Head over to our HTC Incredible ROMs section and choose a ROM you want to try. Download it and save it to your computer (do NOT extract it, leave it as a .zip)

2. Plug the phone in via USB cable and mount the sd card so we can transfer files to it.

3. Copy the ROM .zip file and save it to the root of the sd card (NOT in any folders just on the sd card itself). Once it is done copying, unplug the phone from the usb cable.

4. Turn off the phone, then turn it back on by holding down Volume Down and Power until the white bootloader screen comes up (if it finds the PC36IMG.zip on your sd because you didn’t delete it, just say NO when it asks you if you want to update). Now using the volume buttons select Fastboot, then select Recovery and wait for the phone to boot into recovery mode.

5. Scroll to Wipe Data, select wipe data/factory reset and then select wipe dalvik cache.

6. Now scroll to Apply .zip from sd card and select the ROM .zip file we saved to the sdcard and wait for it to finish flashing. Once it is done, hit reboot and you are all set! Enjoy! If you want to flash a different ROM, simply redo this procedure and choose a different ROM.

I. Before You Begin

1. This is the easiest method available to root.

2. This method will also flash a custom recovery image so you can start flashing ROMs immediately.

3. On your computer, go to Start > Control Panel > Programs > and Uninstall HTC Sync if it is installed before you continue.

II. Root and Flash a Custom Recovery Image

1. Download the Unrevoked Rooting App

Unrevoked for Windows
Unrevoked for Mac
Unrevoked for Linux

2. Double click the Unrevoked program you downloaded. If using Windows, then click on the file that appears called Hboot Driver and follow it’s instructions to install the modified HBoot drivers.

3. Once the drivers are successfully installed, double click the Reflash program to open it.

4. Once the driver is successfully installed, turn off the phone by taking out the battery and putting it back in. Then push power to turn it on and get it to the normal home screen.

5. On your computer, right click the Reflash file and run as administrator. It should open Unrevoked and say “waiting for device”.

6. On your phone, click Menu > Settings > Applications > Development > and make sure USB Debugging is checked ON.

7. Plug in your phone into your computer via usb cable.

8. It should automatically locate your phone that is plugged in and you can just follow the prompts to continue.

9. Done! You are rooted and have a custom recovery image!

III. (Optional) Load a Custom ROM

1. Head over to our How To Load a Custom ROM on the HTC Incredible procedure.

Big thanks to the Unrevoked Team!

Here is our round 2 giveaway for the Android Collectible Figurines!

What better way to tell the rest of the office/household/world how much you love Android than with an Official Android Collectible Figurine! These little guys are 3″ tall made out of high quality vinyl and come in a sealed, blind box. There are a bunch of different versions of the Androids to get, but since the boxes are sealed and blind, its up to luck to which one you get!

To see more pictures of the Android figurines, check out our Facebook Photo Album!

If you want one, we’re giving away two of them at random to people who enter the giveaway! Here’s how to enter:

• To enter the contest, simply register and post something in our forums!
• Post as many times as you want! (Please no “skldfnfjnsdfjn” or “the sky is blue” crap. Think of a genuine thing you would want to talk about with other like-minded readers, anything else will just be deleted and not count.) Each post/reply will count as one entry! So the more times you post the more chance you have of winning!
• NO JIBBERISH. Feel free to post a topic about a question you have about a phone, answer someone else’s question, rant about things you like or hate, etc. Each one you post is an entry so feel free to post multiple times!
• Two Android figurines will again be given out at random (keep in mind that the more you post the better your chances of winning) on Saturday after the contest closes!

• If you have Twitter, give us a follow
• If you have Facebook, fan our page on Facebook
• Contest will end on Friday July 30th at 11:59PM EST.

If you have any issues registering or posting in the new forums, please us the Forum Suggestion contact us form for assistance.

Good luck everyone!

So just a little interesting tidbit of info. T-Mobile today just announced (relatively quietly) that their new HSPA+ 21mbps network now covers more than 85 million people and that pushes them past Sprint’s current WiMax coverage. What does that mean? Well, that T-Mobile is now the largest network with 4G speeds.

Now, we say 4G speeds because HSPA+ is technically not a 4G technology like WiMax and LTE, but HSPA+ has already been proven faster than Sprint’s WiMax network and is backwards compatible to pretty much all of T-Mobile’s 3G devices so that counts for us

Take a look at the HSPA+ coverage map (then select See Cities with HSPA+) and see if your city is up and running soon.

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I. Before You Begin

1. You MUST have done our How To Root the HTC Evo 4G (Unrevoked Method) procedure before doing this one.

2. If the ROM you want to use requires NAND to be unlocked (like Cyanogen’s ROM), please do our How To Unlock NAND on the HTC Evo 4G procedure, then come back to this one to flash the ROM.

II. Loading a Custom ROM

1. Head over to our HTC Evo ROMs section and choose a ROM you want to try. Download it and save it to your computer (do NOT extract it, leave it as a .zip)

2. Plug the phone in via USB cable and mount the sd card so we can transfer files to it.

3. Copy the ROM .zip file and save it to the root of the sd card (NOT in any folders just on the sd card itself). Once it is done copying, unplug the phone from the usb cable.

4. Turn off the phone, then turn it back on by holding down Volume Down and Power until the white bootloader screen comes up (if it finds the PC36IMG.zip on your sd because you didn’t delete it, just say NO when it asks you if you want to update). Now using the volume buttons select Fastboot, then select Recovery and wait for the phone to boot into recovery mode.

5. Scroll to Wipe Data, select wipe data/factory reset and then select wipe dalvik cache.

6. Now scroll to Apply .zip from sd card and select the ROM .zip file we saved to the sdcard and wait for it to finish flashing. Once it is done, hit reboot and you are all set! Enjoy! If you want to flash a different ROM, simply redo this procedure and choose a different ROM.

I. Before You Begin

1. You MUST do our How To Root the HTC Evo 4G procedure, then come to this one to unlock NAND.

2. You would unlock your NAND to load certain custom ROMs (like Cyanogen’s).

II. Setup ADB

1. Do our How To Setup ADB procedure. Once you can see your device’s serial number at the end of the procedure, then come here to continue.

III. Perform a Nandroid Backup

1. Turn off your phone.

2. Turn it back on by holding down volume down and power until hboot mode comes up. Use the volume down button and click power to select recovery.

3. Once the phone boots into recovery scroll down using the volume down buttons to Nandroid and select it. Then select backup and wait for it to finish backing up.

4. Once it is done, select Reboot System Now and wait for the phone to boot back to the normal home screen.

III. Unlock the NAND

1. Download the following files and save them to your computer.

PC36IMG.zip
mtd-eng.zip
flash_image.zip
recovery2.img (if this downloads as recovery.img, simply rename it to recovery2.img)

2. Plug the phone into the computer via USB and mount the sd card so we can transfer files to it.

3. Unzip the mtd-eng.zip and flash_image.zip file and put their content on to the root of the sd card (not in any folders on the sd card just on the sd card itself).

4. Copy the recovery2.img file and the pc36img.zip file (do NOT extract it, leave it as a .zip) to the root of the sd card (not in any folders on the sd card just on the sd card itself).

5. Unmount the sd card on your phone. Then go to Settings > Applications > Development > and make sure USB Debugging is ON.

6. Open the command prompt on your computer by going to the start menu and typing cmd and hitting enter.

7. Type the following into the command prompt with hitting enter at the end of each line:

cd\
cd c:\AndroidSDK\tools\
adb shell
su
cat /sdcard/flash_image > /data/flash_image
chmod 755 /data/flash_image
/data/flash_image misc /sdcard/mtd-eng.img

8. Once that is done, turn off the phone.

9. Turn the phone back on by holding down Volume Down and Power until HBoot mode comes up.

10. It should automatically find the PC36IMG file and ask you to confirm. Select yes and wait for it to finish flashing.

11. When it asks you if you want to reboot select yes. (It takes a long time to load up the first time, be patient).

12. Once the phone reboots to the regular home screens, make sure it is still plugged into the computer and go back to the command prompt on your computer.

13. Type the following into the command prompt with hitting enter at the end of each line:

cd\
cd c:\AndroidSDK\tools
adb shell
su
cat /sdcard/flash_image > /data/flash_image
chmod 755 /data/flash_image
/data/flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery2.img
reboot recovery

14. Once the phone reboots into recovery mode, navigate with the volume buttons and use power to select Wipe Data and select it.

15. Select reboot system now and you are all set! Now you can go to our procedure below and flash any Evo ROM you want.

IV. (Optional) Load a Custom ROM

1. Head over to our How To Load a Custom ROM on the HTC Evo 4G procedure.

I. Before You Begin

1. This is the easiest method available to root.

2. This method will also flash a custom recovery image so you can start flashing ROMs immediately.

3. On your computer, go to Start > Control Panel > Programs > and Uninstall HTC Sync if it is installed before you continue.

II. Root and Flash a Custom Recovery Image

1. Download the Unrevoked Rooting App

Unrevoked for Windows
Unrevoked for Mac
Unrevoked for Linux

2. Double click the Unrevoked program you downloaded. If using Windows, then click on the file that appears called Hboot Driver and follow it’s instructions to install the modified HBoot drivers.

3. Once the drivers are successfully installed, double click the Reflash program to open it.

4. Once the driver is successfully installed, turn off the phone by taking out the battery and putting it back in. Then push power to turn it on and get it to the normal home screen.

5. On your computer, right click the Reflash file and run as administrator. It should open Unrevoked and say “waiting for device”.

6. On your phone, click Menu > Settings > Applications > Development > and make sure USB Debugging is checked ON.

7. Plug in your phone into your computer via usb cable.

8. It should automatically locate your phone that is plugged in and you can just follow the prompts to continue.

9. Done! You are rooted and have a custom recovery image!

III. (Optional) Unlock NAND to Flash Certain ROMs (Like Cyanogen ROMs)

1. Head over to our How To Unlock NAND on the HTC Evo 4G procedure.

IV. (Optional) Load a Custom ROM

1. Head over to our How To Load a Custom ROM on the HTC Evo 4G procedure.

Big thanks to the Unrevoked Team!

A Chinese site, HiAPK.com, have come across what seems to be some blurry shots of a new Droid device they believe is headed to Verizon here in the States. There is no way to confirm if this is a real device (the sheer blurriness of the photos and the super shady video might suggest its a fake to be honest. I mean who’s hands are really that shaky, seriously?!), but might be worth keeping an eye out for… Check out more pics and a quick video below and tell us what you think.

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Please keep in mind that these are preview (not intended for retail sale units) and things can change between now and release as well as bugs worked out etc.

Slashgear’s 20 Minute Video Review

Here is their actual written preview as well.

Engadget’s Preview

Engadget takes a good long look at the preview device from Samsung they were allowed to put through it’s paces. Complete with images and videos. Check it out here.

BoyGeniusReport’s  Preview

BoyGeniusReport takes a crack at a preview as well complete with images, but no videos. Check it out here.

MobileCrunch’s Preview

Another written preview like BGR’s with images but no videos. Click here to view.

Thanks to an Engadget reader who decided to go searching through the Droid Does website’s source code, we have what very well might be the first official images of the Motorola A955 aka the Droid 2 for Verizon (even though we’ve seen some other fuzzy, leaked shots before). Engadget is also reporting that the device is slated for August this year for all you keyboard loving Android users. Now, if only someone could find the official specs…

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To see more pictures of the Android figurines, check out our Facebook Photo Album!

If you want one, we’re giving away two of them at random to people who enter the giveaway! Here’s how to enter:

• To enter the contest, simply post a comment on this post explaining why you want/how you’ll use your new Android buddy!
• If you have Twitter, give us a follow.
• If you have Facebook, fan our page on Facebook
• Please only post one comment here per person! Thanks!
• Contest will end on Wednesday July 21st at 11:59PM EST.

Good luck everyone!

CLOSED! THANKS FOR PARTICIPATING, EVERYONE! The winners have been emailed.
Two winners were chosen at random to receive the two Android collectible figurines using Random.org to choose the winners!

Because of the awesome comments everyone left though we are giving away one extra figurine as a bonus to the person with the highest ranked comment, chosen by all of you!

If you didn’t win, were doing another give away Friday July 23rd, so you have another chance to win one of these awesome figurines! Check the site tomorrow for the new giveaway rules and how to enter!

So the original Motorola Droid is apparently going to be the last device without a digitally signed bootloader from Motorola. What does that mean? Well, it means that there is no flashing of custom recovery images and no easy way of flashing custom ROMs like the majority of Android devices. In a blog post on the Motorola Dev website, they explained their position on custom roms etc. basically saying that if you want to flash custom ROMs, “we highly recommend obtaining either a Google ADP1 developer phone or a Nexus One, both of which are intended for these purposes. At this time, Motorola Android-based handsets are intended for use by consumers and Android application developers, and we have currently chosen not to go into the business of providing fully unlocked developer phones.”

I don’t think Motorola realizes just how many “end consumers” love to flash custom ROMs (XDA Developers, our own site, and many others could attest to that). They are shooting themselves in the foot in my opinion. The benefit of the custom ROMs for consumers are new UI’s, optimization, customization beyond belief (just look at any Cyanogen ROM), full backups, overclocking, extra RAM (via Swap), and so much more. And as far as the manufacturer’s are concerned, all of these added features cost them NOTHING. The developers who make these custom ROMs work for donations (if that, some won’t even except them) that people who use their ROMs are generally happy to give. Motorola doesn’t have to pay them, and they are making their devices better, why wouldn’t Motorola want this?

In their blog post, they go on to state all the legal jargon about how they aren’t doing anything against the open source agreements (including GPLv2, etc.) to stop people from yelling saying if they lock the bootloader, then it isn’t “open source”. We know that they can lock the bootloader if they really want, my question isn’t if it goes against being open source, but just why, as a business decision, they decided to do it. What harm comes from giving an unlocked bootloader and even root access for that matter if you provide a disclaimer saying enabling it will void your software warranty (as the Nexus One does etc)? What does Motorola have to lose?

Anyone else think this is dumb of any manufacturer to do?

Anyone else think that more manufacturers should go the way of the Nokia N900, and just provide root access out of the box? Didn’t seem to hurt Nokia any…

Hit the source link for the full blog post from Motorola.

PS That isn’t too say we CAN’T load custom ROMs… Just check out our How To Root the Milestone, Load a Custom ROM on the Milestone, and our Custom ROMs for the Milestone section. The Milestone has a locked bootloader as well, we get around it by loading custom ROMs through ADB and Nandroid Backup. But this method still doesn’t allow us to load custom recovery images and makes for a much harder way of creating or loading custom ROMs.

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Well, if you fall into that category or you just want to try you hand at developing for a different OS, Microsoft has officially released their Windows Phone 7 Tools under a Beta label. If you’ve been following Windows Phone 7′s development since it’s official unveiling in February, here are some key points to note about the new release:

• Microsoft Expression Blend is now fully integrated into the Windows Phone 7 Developer tools
• If you have a developer phone on the way, the tools has the ability to unlock it for use.
• XAP Development tool to deploy XAP files to the developer phone.
• Windows Phone 7 API is just about finished, and the close to finished API is included in the Developer Tools Beta.
• New controls are coming in a few weeks (like Pivot), they didn’t make it into the beta.
• Silverlight for Windows Phone controls have been updated.

If you are interested in learning more about Windows Phone 7 development, they are having free courses starting July 20th. Head here to sign up.

Planning to make an app but haven’t requested a device yet? Here is what Microsoft had to say as part of this beta release:

“Devices for Developers

We made a promise last month that we would be getting pre-production preview devices to developers this month. We are keeping that promise. In fact, the very first preview devices were awarded last week to a pair of pretty amazing high-school students who won the Windows Phone “Rockstar” contest as part of the Imagine Cup. When we saw what they had done, we knew we had to get them preview phones.

Starting next Monday (July 19th), we start shipping the devices more broadly. Sadly, we will not be able to meet all of that demand.  We are planning to set up deploy and test labs in major cities to make it a little easier for everyone who wants to have access to a preview phone to have it. More on that soon.

Lastly, to get your name in the queue, assuming you haven’t already sent in an email, you can now send an email to wp7req@microsoft.com.  A field representative will get back to you as soon as possible. Again, these are preview phones, so they are limited in quantity. When you send email, please include the following information:

• Your name
• Company name, if applicable
• What city/state/country you are located in
• App(s) you plan on developing (category and brief description)”

So make sure you get your emails in to get your phone ASAP.

Happy developing everyone!

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Have an idea for an Android app but never learned how to write code? Or perhaps you are proficient in writing code but just too darn lazy to make that app you were thinking about? Well, Google wants to help. App inventor is a web-based program that you can use to make Android apps. It reminds me a bit of Visual Studio but it’s actually easier to use as it has some features that allow you to not have to write any code at all. Take a look at the video below for the how one cat lady makes something to remind her of what her cat sounds like…

Ready to make your own cat sound app? Hit the source link below and fill out a request form and Google will give you access. And feel free to suggest some how tos for us to do regarding the new program, happy to help!

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So because of the Tattoo’s unique resolution (240×320) a lot of the apps in the market don’t show up. This is because the majority are made for 320×480 or higher resolution screens. The thing is though, that even if an app is made for 320×480 Android will automatically scale it down to 240×320, so with a simple patch to tell the market that your phone can support resolution 320×480, you now have access to all of the apps Here’s how to do it:

I Before You Begin

1. You MUST have rooted your Tattoo. Here’s how if you haven’t done so yet:

How To Root the HTC Tattoo

2. You must also have ADB Setup:

How To Setup ADB

II. Download and Install the Patch

1. Download the patch for your version of Android. If you are running a cooked or stock ROM with root access on Android 1.6, use the Android 1.6 patch. If you are using a cooked ROM on Android 2.1, use the Android 2.1 patch.

Android 1.6 Market Patch
Android 2.1 Market Patch

2. Unzip the file and copy the .apk file inside into the Tools folder of your AndroidSDK (you should have this setup from rooting the phone).

3. Plug in the phone and make sure USB Debugging is On in Settings > Applications > Development

4. Open the command prompt on your computer by typing cmd into the search box in the Start menu.

5. Type the following into the command prompt with hitting enter at the end of each line:

cd\
cd c:\AndroidSDK\tools\
adb shell mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

6a. (If using the Android 1.6 patch) – Type the following into the command prompt with hitting enter at the end of each line:

adb push Vending-Tattoo-patched.apk /system/app/Vending.apk

6b. (If using the Android 2.1 patch) -

Type the following into the command prompt with hitting enter at the end of each line:

adb push Vending-Tattoo-patched.apk /system/app/com.android.vending.apk

7. Reboot the phone and enjoy!

Thanks MoneyToo for this great patch!
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For those unaware, T-Mobile is in the process of rolling out their HSPA+ 3G network, this network upgrade already covers 25 markets and 75 million people in the US with plans to cover 185 million people by the end of the year. The main benefit of this network is that it will increase the speeds of all their current 3G devices, without the need for consumers to buy a new phone. With that said though, most of T-Mobile’s phones have the ability to download at up to 7.2mbps and with their HSPA+ network to have a theoretical peak download speed of 21mbps, they aren’t able to take full advantage of the new speeds.

Well, T-Mobile has just announced through a Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile USA’s parent company) spokesperson, that they will be launching an HSPA+ enabled smartphone developed by HTC this year in September to take full advantage of the new network peak speeds.  Engadget actually believes that this September device could be the HTC Vision recently spied.

This news also comes right after a picture was taken at a T-Mobile manager’s meeting showed possible plans to increase their HSPA+ network to 42mbps before 2011. Now, a spokesperson for Deutsche Telekom wanted to clarify:

According to the Deutsche Telekom spokesman, the carrier has not made a decision on that. “T-Mobile USA has not decided yet if they will use the new 42 Mbps standard or maybe rollout LTE for the US,” he said in an emailed response. “This decision will be made at a later point of time after having considered all necessary aspects and the experiences made with both HSPA+ and LTE in the other markets of Deutsche Telekom.”

The reason being is that apparently the 42mbps HSPA+ upgrade would require new hardware on the cell towers just like a move to LTE would (and unlike the 21mbps upgrade that only required new software supposedly) so they are going to wait and see which makes more sense.

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Engadget has put together a little test showing the speed differences between the iPhone 4 and the Nexus One’s browsers. The first test was done with Flash enabled on the Nexus One and the second test was done with it disabled (to make it fair since, as we all know, the iPhone doesn’t support Flash). Take a look at the videos for the results.

So it seems that BBC News, gdgt, and The Onion all came out as pretty much a tie in that test, with the iPhone 4 loading Engadget a second or two quicker than the Nexus and the Nexus loading the New York Times a second or two faster.

Now that was with Flash enabled, the next video is with it disabled:

With Flash off, the Nexus One seems to load all the pages faster than the iPhone, except BBC News that seems to be a tie. So I think it is safe to say that Google did a good job with the Android 2.2 browser, no?

Samsung loves to talk about how their 1ghz Hummingbird chipset blows similar 1ghz processor chipsets out of the water (like the Snapdragon). Well, someone with a Samsung Galaxy S (running a Hummingbird chipset) and an HTC Desire (running a 1ghz Snapdragon chipset) decided to put that to the test by running Quake on both devices. Take a look at the video below for the results.

So the Hummingbird definitely wins here, looks like Samsung wasn’t kidding.
Regardless, I can’t help but wonder how having Android 2.2 on both devices would help them both even further…

UPDATE: Regardless of whether this is testing the GPUs or the processors or any other part of the chipsets, we can all agree that any phone you buy at the moment with a Snapdragon inside will perform the same in comparison to a Hummingbird inside, right?

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According to TmoNews, the above picture was taken at a T-Mobile manager meeting held in Seattle last week. It would seem that T-Mobile has plans to double their up and coming HSPA+ network from 21mbps to 42mbps which would allow them to not have to switch to a new 4G technology to compete with Verizon’s LTE network due out at the end of 2011 (and as we know, their current 21mbps 3G is already getting faster average speeds than Sprint’s current WiMax 4G network).

The other benefit of HSPA+ is that all HSDPA devices (all of T-Mobile’s Android line up as well as the majority of their other phones) will all get a nice speed increase, unlike WiMax/LTE that you will need to buy a special LTE/WiMax phone for.

Now if this is true, all they need to do is get this network in more cities ASAP, get some higher-end Android phones, and they’d be some serious competition for the other big guys. Time will tell.

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So not all the phones in LG’s new “Optimus” series will be Android, but at least the first two will. And not just any Android, LG says Android 2.2 will be on the phones at launch (not that amazing of a feat depending on how late these phones come out, considering rumors have Gingerbread scheduled for October, so we’ll see).

The first two phones are the “One” and the “Chic”. The One is a higher end device and will feature a 3.8″ capacitive touchscreen, an OMAP3630 processor, HD camera, and HDMI support. Where as the Chic is geared more towards fashionistas with it’s “sleek design” but no word on specifications yet.

The Optimus series is scheduled to be released during the second half of 2010, but no specific dates or pricing is available yet.

The other thing LG announced in their press release is an Android powered tablet… but no word on any specs, just that they “are working on one for 2010″.

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So the old rumors might be dispelled with these new ones (or they could both be wrong and have some totally other features… oh, rumors). But regardless here are the latest rumors surround what seems to be HTC’s first high end Android phone with QWERTY keyboard (about time).

Might not be the killer specs we heard rumored a while ago, but still not too shabby. And for people waiting for a decent spec’d, physical keyboard toting Android device, this might be what you’ve been waiting for.
I personally would have liked Android 2.2 without Sense and a 5 row keyboard (like the Touch Pro 2), but at least its a step in the right direction.

What do you guys think?

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