In Europe, HTC’s Android devices are fragmented among the big players there. This means TIM could end up being the first carrier to offer both the HTC Dream and the HTC Magic as well, now that they’ve popped a product page on their official site for the keyboardless device at a stiff €449 (about $595).

There’s no launch date listed just as yet, but Tecnophone says that the phones are already in TIM’s possession, and that they might be looking at a May 4 launch to line up with Vodafone.

TIM HTC Magic

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Samsung recently announced that it had shipped more than 5 million of its touchscreen F480 mobile phone units. The company now claims to hold 25% of the world’s touchscreen mobile phone market. Most of the touchscreen devices shipped recently use Samsung’s very own TouchWIZ UI, though some models for North America, such as the Instinct, do not use that interface.

Well, we are waiting to see what kind of UI the company would bring to Android. Would they be using the selfsame TouchWIZ technology on Google’s platform or would they go for Android’s own native interface, such as the thing we see on the HTC Dream and HTC Magic? Maybe they will introduce their technology. After all, Samsung has brought it to Windows Mobile and Symbian as well, right? Well, let us wait and watch for more.

Samsung F480

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After weeks of waiting, T-Mobile’s officially stated that the “Cupcake” Android update will be coming to the G1 sometime in April this year. That means, there is only one month for this to happen. This update will help Android handset users to get an onscreen keyboard plus many other useful features to improve the performance of the handset that was launched last November.

The new features the G1 update will provide are voice and video recorder, the ability to save MMS attachments and stereo Bluetooth. We suspect this update will possibly come at the same time as the HTC Magic, which will also contain the “cupcake” software, but T-Mobile refused to comment on the same.

There have been enough lags and snags about this whole issue and we are hoping they get it right this time round.

Source: EngadgetMobile

Cellebrite, the company that manufactures devices that enable management, transfer and backup of mobile phone content, announced support for HTC Dream or T-Mobile G1, with its revolutionary UME-36Pro. With this technology, the company added the Google Android-powered smartphone to the list of supported phones for the UME-36Pro. This device can write phonebook, audio, video, pictures and ringtones from old to new phones, over a direct cable connection.

At present, more than all major carriers in the US are using the Cellebrite UME-36 devices, including AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, US Cellular and T-Mobile. Cellebrite now has around 90% market share in point of sales synchronization solutions. The greatest advantage with the UME-36 is that it does not require a PC for use and can support over 1.800 past and current mobile phone models.

Celebrite UME-36Pro

Source: IntoMobile