We learned the other day from a slightly shady-looking leaked document that the second version of the G1 will be hitting T-Mo some time in the fall. Believable, but the picture for the phone looked all wrong — a little too Ocean-y for us (though we love that phone) [Greg says: I was totally right about the G1v2 image in that document being a fake placeholder]. But BGR appears to have unearthed a picture of the real thing, and it looks a lot more likely to us.
The very HTC-like keyboard (you can tell from the width of the keys), obscured as it is, looks nice, and you can barely tell but there are three touch-buttons at the bottom, possibly with placeholder icons on them. BGR has graciously put their watermark directly over them, but you can see they’re a bit anonymous and probably not final. After all, the “home” and “back” functionality are integral to Android and I doubt they’d use such arbitrary designs to represent them. So we don’t see this as a final design but it’s certainly more slick-looking than its predecessor.
It seems that Bigfoot will be dropping in October at Wal-Mart for just under $150 with a 2-year contract, and probably similar terms directly from T-Mobile. I’m sure we’ll learn more before then, so we’ll keep our eyes open.
Actually looks nice. Could this save Android for me?? Maybe.
Very exciting, except that I just busted my G1 it seems.. Or rather I willed it to become broken in my sleep so I will have to re-up before that release.. What was teh date on the “Magic” anyways…
So the point of this comment: The only thing I have against the possibility of this being real (as a long time HTC hardware user) is that the hardware lock button on the side above the very wide port, does not really have any place being there with the Android key lock, and has the same proportion and orange color as my iPod Nano Chromatic…
Thoughts?
It looks awesome. This is what the G1 should have looked like from the beginning.
Also, to the comment about the hardware lock, I’m going to guess that’s either a power button or an SD card eject.
Very sleak and attractive looking device. I agree with the post above as well. I believe that it is probably a power button. Look forward to seeing this when it comes out.