Google Android Update: Size of the HTC Dream Revealed
An important piece of information has emerged surrounding the anticipated HTC Dream, which will be the first device running Google’s Android operating system. New information from the FCC Web site gives this smartphone’s size which is approximately 2.2 inches wide and 4.5 inches long.
Credit: Brighthand.com
From Brighthand.com:
Last week, when the Dream received its approval from the FCC — a necessary step before it can be released in the U.S. — this government agency posted a diagram of this device that HTC thought revealed too much about it (see image at right). This company therefore asked the FCC to switch diagrams to sometime less detailed.
The agency complied, and the new diagram is just a simple outline of the smartphone. Nevertheless, it contains an import piece of information the original did not: the exact dimensions of the HTC Dream.
Therefore, it’s now known that this model will be 2.2 inches wide and 4.5 inches long (55 mm by 115 mm). The FCC did not reveal the width of the device.
For comparison, the AT&T Tilt — a similar model also made by HTC — is 2.3 inches by 4.4 inches. Some have compared the Dream to a T-Mobile Sidekick, a device that is 2.3 inches by 4.7 inches.
Leaked video and images of the HTC Dream have shown that it will have a touchscreen that moves to one side to expose a landscape-oriented keyboard. The FCC documents confirmed earlier reports that this smartphone will support T-Mobile’s 3G network.
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August 26, 2008 at 4:27 am
Can’t wait to have one…..
August 27, 2008 at 4:31 am
Android is exciting and it’s exciting that it’s open source and really great they chose Webkit. HOWEVER, it’s hard to imagine where it’s going to fit in. Open source is appealing to developers but has no relevance to end users. If it was ready BEFORE the iPhone, it would have killed iPhone’s thunder, but with iPhone 3G with GPS and with the App Store open for business, as a developer, i’ve got to decide between the Android (cool!) and the iPhone (the sure path to revenue, right here, right now). The two are too close in look and feel and capabilities and capabilities aside, the iPhone has a distribution network in place for developers that is just to compelling to get distracted by Android, even with all its goodness. Throw in iPod and AppleTV to the platform mix and I can’t financially justify Android, even as a hedge bet.