Surprisingly there was not too much to report this year at CES, certainly not as much Android related stuff as we had anticipated. The week started off with a young girl getting the little Android bot tattooed on the inside of her arm. She goes by the name “Kommodore” and ironically enough lives in Texas, which is known for having a rather large open source community.

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This week was a big one as a video demonstrating the second Android-powered handset surfaced. This video basically does not show too much, just enough to stir up anticipations if nothing more.  We also got a glimpse of the back of the device and the new Android logo that it possesses.

Recently a user by the name RyeBrye found that if you recompile the code for the synaptic screen with the excluded multi-touch portion, he could then record two separate finger presses at one time. RyeBrye has created a video that clearly demonstrates the two separate traces by two other colors.

This week we were informed that some of the T-Mobile G1 per-orders will be arriving late. All pre-orders made after October 3rd will arrive November 10th at the earliest. Many impatient customers are better off waiting in line on October 22nd to get one on release day. Rumors went around the T-Mobile is prepping their version of the HTC Touch HD to run Android. It seems those rumors go unfounded with the announcement that the Touch HD will not be coming to the US.

Today was a huge day for Google and T-Mobile with the announcement of the first phone to come loaded with Android. The official release date of the T-Mobile G1 will be Wednesday October 22nd. Pre-sales started immediately after the announcement for the upgrade price of $179.  The G1 has a 3.2-inch 320 x 480 (HVGA) resolution capacitive touchscreen, a flip-out full QWERTY keyboard, dual-band UMTS HSPA, quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE, WiFi, GPS and Bluetooth.  There’s also a 3.2-megapixel fixed-focus camera, microSD slot (with a 1GB card provided and up to 8GB supported) and a trackball for navigation.

Videos and hands-on images of the new T-Mobile G1 Google Phone after the cut!

The time has finally arrived! T-Mobile will be launching the first ever Android-powered phone on September 23rd and Android Community is going to be there. We will be live blogging the entire event, which starts at 10:30 EDT, so be sure to tune in!

Besides the live coverage, you’ll also get the scoop on the latest hands-on footage, photos and more. The live product demonstration will ensure you all get familiar with the HTC Dream–the phone we expect to see unveiled–before it ever hits store shelves.

Availability is expected by the end of October, though we’ll know for sure come September 23rd. The G1 will be presented by both Google and T-Mobile, so be sure to point your browser to http://Live.AndroidCommunity.com/ at 10:30 EDT for the breaking news as it happens.

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Just a few weeks ago we were all in the dark about what carrier the HTC Dream would be released on. But in less than a month’s time, we’ve gotten our first look at the smartphone, exclusive images and video of the long-awaited Android operating system and confirmation that the Dream will be called the G1 from T-Mobile. That’s a lot of ground to cover but in keeping with the world of tech, these announcements tend to fly out quickly and then get lost in the heap. Now that the first ever Google phone is being released very soon, we thought it would be appropriate to take a look back at some of the highlights of the HTC Dream and how we’ve gotten familiar with it over the past few weeks.

After it seemed like the Android was in development forever, information finally started rumbling to the surface about a month ago when a rumor that the first Android handset had been delayed was squashed. Soon after, a video was leaked that supposedly showed the HTC Dream in action. You can watch it below. Sure it was a little blurry, but it sent the Internet ablaze. Was this the real HTC Dream or was it a fake? After all of the image leaks, diagrams and more that have surfaced since then, we now know that video was 100% real and it gave us new hope. Android was definitely alive! 

A week later, the FCC approved the Dream and we got a look at a diagram of the phone that revealed it has a jogball. And then the shocker came out. A phone called the T-Mobile G1 had been lurking around on the edges of our attention when all of a sudden all the pieces came together. The HTC Dream is the T-Mobile G1. T-Mobile will be the carrier for the very first Android-based headset. A rumor hit first that the device would be available starting September 17th, but now it seems you’ll be able to get your hands on one starting October 13th. 

A little later, a diagram leaked showing some very interesting specifics about the new smartphone, including a “chin” area. Just last week we got our first clear look at the HTC Dream with T-Mobile branding and buttons through a series of images. A few days ago the Android Developer Challenge came to an end and Google revealed the winners, which ties in directly to the announcement of Google Chrome yesterday. The new browser uses the exact same Webkit as the browser contained in the Android OS. And with good reason, considering Google is the developer of both. To make it all the more fitting, today Google announced that Chrome would more likely than not be coming to Android sooner rather than later in a lite version. 

Whew! The Android news machine has been cranking constantly and with the very first phone, the HTC Dream, now branded as the T-Mobile G1 to hit the carrier in October, this is most definitely not the last we’ve heard about it. 

We do apologize for the lack of updates here on Google Phone. But to keep up with the latest on the Android OS, why not visit Android Community? If you want to join in the discussion, be sure to stop by our forums at http://androidcommunity.com/forums/. 

The quest to get Android running on any hardware possible continues apace, with the gang over at the xda-developers forum working to fettle the OS for HTC hardware. They’ve managed it, too, albeit in a roundabout way; apparently the TyTN II is basically running Android as an emulation: an .EXE on top of the original Windows Mobile OS. That’s a new approach; previous hacks to get the software working - such as on the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet we saw earlier in the week - took advantage of Android’s compatibility with things like OMAP chipsets, which are relatively common among mobile devices, to force the OS to install.

Rumor is swirling around the forthcoming iPhone-like HTC Dream. Handset maker High Tech Computer (HTC) is expected to be the first company out the door with an Android-powered phone set to release sometime in 2008 (possibly near the June time frame).

The HTC Dream will include many of the iPhone features, such as the full touch screen interface and keyboard. It is expected to measure 5-inch long and 3-inch wide. According to AllHeadLineNews, there will be a keyboard below the screen.