In a pleasant change from the normal handset release rigmarole, it looks like the Android-powered HTC Dream might actually show up earlier than we expected. While just yesterday a source revealed to us that we’d be seeing it on October 20th, VentureBeat has heard it might show up a whole 3 days earlier, moving the date to Friday, October 17th.
While insider whispers might be saying different things, they’re all pointing to right around the third weekend of October. Whether it’s on a Friday or a Monday, it looks we’ll all finally get the chance to poke and prod at a live Android handset in just over a month.
Its refreshing to see that there seems to be some decent competition for the iPhone. I’m curious to see how they will respond.
HTC is gaining in popularity on the trading side for mobile wholesalers, you can see evidence of this on gsmExchange. You can also see that the iPhone is still very popular, and after its release last week, the N96 is quickly attracting more and more trades as well.
The smart phone side of the mobile industry seems to be going through a very exciting time. I for one am going to be keeping an eye on this side of the market.
Amazing platform. I’m really looking forward to using some version of this on my phone… Hopefully mobile hardware keeps up with some of the cool features of this software.
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