The Android Devices Blog

Pictures of the HTC Dream handset, complete with T-Mobile branding, have been posted on Slashgear. They show a full QWERTY keyboard that slides out under the display, as had been expected. What they also show is that this clearly isn’t an iPhone killer. The device is looking rather a bit cheap, to be honest with you. This is clearly not a high-end device, but rather one for a broader mass-market. It lacks the elegance of an iPhone or even some of the more advanced Windows Mobile devices. I guess we’ll have to wait until next year to see more elegantly designed devices make it to the market. But at least this is the first Android device and it might even be a good thing that it’s not a high-end device. Android clearly has some way to go to even be feature-complete and high-end buyers might be a lot less forgiving of some of the lacking features.