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Not too shabby but is it going to be enough?
12:19PM Saturday Sep 20 2008 by KathrynV
tags: business · wireless · hardware · Google · T-Mobile US
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T-Mobile is about to launch the HTC Dream, the first handset to operate on Google’s Android platform. Early predictions from HTC for sales of the HTC Dream expect that somewhere between 600,000 and 700,000 units will be sold before the end of this year. A slightly more conservative estimate from analysts in the industry says that approximately 400,000 units will sell in the fourth quarter of 2008. That’s about four percent of the U.S. smartphone market, a market that is notably crowded with competition and has Google saying that it’s working to make sure that the HTC Dream is not a dud. For those who are interested, there are some photos of the new phone floating around out there.

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Phylop
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Dream feel.

I'm still not totally convinced that I'm going to like the layout and feel of the HTC Dream. Android on the other hand I'm pretty confident in. Once better photos the Dream surface I may have a better idea, and if I don't like the Dream there will always be more Android phones down the road.

Too bad I'm an at&t customer. :-(

Dread
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Re: Dream feel.

said by Phylop See Profile :

Too bad I'm an at&t customer. :-(
Why is that a bad thing? you can actually use 3g and get reception :P

I don't think the dream will do well.
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Re: Dream feel.

said by Dread See Profile :

said by Phylop See Profile :

Too bad I'm an at&t customer. :-(
Why is that a bad thing? you can actually use 3g and get reception :P

I don't think the dream will do well.
The service isn't bad, I just won't have access to Android phones any time soon, as far as I know.

gigahurtz
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Interesting.

I actually like the way the phone looks. The keyboard looks pretty nice too.

Interested to see this phone in person.

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Re: Interesting.

said by gigahurtz See Profile :

I actually like the way the phone looks. The keyboard looks pretty nice too.

Interested to see this phone in person.
Me too, I'm not a big fan of virtual keyboards so if the touch screen works as it supposed too with a real keyboard, I'll definitely have an eye on it when it comes to Canada (if ever)

PV8MAN999

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android apps

Can't wait for people to start making blue snarfing app to install on android and the like.

HardwareGeek

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HTC Is full of it

HTC is dreaming if they believethe dream will sell 700,000 Units.
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As long as it shuts up the iPhone fanboys I will be happy

iPhone is way overrated and I have had just about enough of the fanboy rants.

The bottom line is that Android will cost less and as long as that is passed on to the consumer instead of put in the pockets of the Telcos it will prevail.
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Re: As long as it shuts up the iPhone fanboys I will be happy

Best $200 I ever spent.
Touch screen is SO MUCH BETTER than any of my previous HTC phones.

It's decently fast, does just about what I need (especially after jail breaking).
EPS

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Re: As long as it shuts up the iPhone fanboys I will be happy

Capacitive touch screens are nice, unless you want to use a stylus, in which case you're in trouble. Of course on a phone that's not that too necessary, but if the iPhone ever becomes a gaming platform to replace the DS and PSP- which I sincerely doubt- the lack of exact control will be a pain. Of course, it seems like the industry in general is moving towards capacitive touch screens, I wouldn't be surprised to see one on whatever Nintendo or Sony dream up to replace their devices anyway. But the resistive + stylus is better for some situations...
divideBYzero

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Re: As long as it shuts up the iPhone fanboys I will be happy

Sorry, but you are a bit off on the stylus for the iPhone. Check this out.
»www.tenonedesign.com/stylus.php
EPS

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Re: As long as it shuts up the iPhone fanboys I will be happy

I've seen the "iPhone stylus" things that float around- the problem is that they usually have to have wide tips.
EPS

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How many units?

Is that how many units HTC expects T-Mobile USA to sell, or does it include T-Mobile's other non-US networks?

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Re: How many units?

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Is that how many units HTC expects T-Mobile USA to sell, or does it include T-Mobile's other non-US networks?
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Re: How many units?

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Pacemakers stopped. The entire worldwide cell networks were infected. Firewalls failed. We couldn't stop it. No one could. Then the bombs fell. Judgement Day became reality. Then came the Machines. The War Had Just Begun.
Oh Pooh. Microsoft's been doing that for years.

It's called Windows.

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Re: How many units?

said by tmh :

said by supergirl See Profile :

Pacemakers stopped. The entire worldwide cell networks were infected. Firewalls failed. We couldn't stop it. No one could. Then the bombs fell. Judgement Day became reality. Then came the Machines. The War Had Just Begun.
Oh Pooh. Microsoft's been doing that for years.

It's called Windows.

tmh
Windows is too incompetent to become "self-aware".
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fuziwuzi
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Glad I waited

I've had my trusty RAZR v3 on TMobile for a bit over 2 years now and have been waiting to upgrade. I think this may be what I've been waiting for.

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Re: Glad I waited

Eegad...I hated my Razr pretty much 15 min after I got it...throw that thing away...

fuziwuzi
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Re: Glad I waited

said by Koil See Profile :

Eegad...I hated my Razr pretty much 15 min after I got it...throw that thing away...
Whatever... the RAZR v3 has worked very well for me over two years. It does everything I need it to do, which is make and receive excellent quality voice calls and the occasional text message, and bluetooth connectivity is great. Thankfully, I'm not so jaded and obsessed on having the latest "bling".

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Koil
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Re: Glad I waited

I really wasn't trying to be snide...humerous, maybe...but seriously...the RAZR's phone quality was fine and blue tooth connectivty worked as well, but menu navigation was slow to the point of painful, not to mention that (at least with Sprint) the cool doohickies and whistles that were disabled...just saying, there are much better phones out there (Centro) that just work....even on an outdated OS like the Palm.

fuziwuzi
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Re: Glad I waited

said by Koil See Profile :

I really wasn't trying to be snide...humerous, maybe...but seriously...the RAZR's phone quality was fine and blue tooth connectivty worked as well, but menu navigation was slow to the point of painful, not to mention that (at least with Sprint) the cool doohickies and whistles that were disabled...just saying, there are much better phones out there (Centro) that just work....even on an outdated OS like the Palm.
On TMobile, nothing on the RAZR is disabled. It connects to my computer and I can transfer pictures, ringtones, even make my own ringtones from MP3 files and upload to the phone, transfer the contacts and calendar, etc. I rarely use the menu system anyway since to make/receive calls or send a txt message to the people I usually send to (on MyFavs) doesn't require even going into the menu system.
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insomniac84

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Windows Mobile?

Very good platform that already exists. Why isn't microsoft mimicking the iphone interface via some kind of theme? And the app store?

FastiBook

join:2003-01-08
Newtown, PA

Daydreaming...

Ya keep dreaming. I have a feeling it's going to flop.

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whiteshp

join:2002-03-05
Xenia, OH

UMA

I wonder if the dream will support UMA? Using UMA with their current promo it's $10 extra (on the plan and not per phone) for the whole family to have unlimited minutes through UMA.

We've been using tons free min and would like to see more UMA phones.

WS
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