HTC Dream: News & Rumors

This is not one of my usual posts; I’m posting this here today to record significant news and rumors about the first Google Android-powered phone, HTC Dream. This sort of posting might comes in handy for me one day. So, here goes.

Let’s start with the first news report released by CNET in video 12 hours earlier.

Exactly 2 hours ago, TechCrunch reported that FCC (Federal Communications Commission) has approved HTC Dream and mentioned that November 10th 2008 could be its launch date. Matt Marshall from VentureBeat meanwhile has some interesting HTC Dreams schematics on his latest post and its worth checking out.

Edited on August 19th 2008 5:15 AM:

Google Android Developers Blog has released some new updates about their SDK:

First and most obviously, the new Home screen is included, along with a ton of UI changes for 1.0.
Some new applications are included: an Alarm Clock, Calculator, Camera, Music player, Picture viewer, and Messaging (for SMS/MMS conversations.)
Several new development tools were added, such as a graphical preview for XML layouts for users of Eclipse, and a tool for constructing 9-patch images.
Since we've got a new Home screen application now, we thought the now-obsolete version from the M5 early-look SDK might be helpful to developers, so its source is included as a sample.
A number of new APIs are fleshed out and improved, and others are now close to their final forms for 1.0.
Tons of bugs were fixed, of course. (If you had problems with the MediaPlayer, try it now!)