The T-Mobile G2 Gets Its Official Debut

We all knew it was coming, and the question was not if, but when. On Thursday, T-Mobile announced the successor to the first Android phone (ever), the T-Mobile G2.

The T-Mobile G1 was the first Android phone, and T-Mobile G2 rumors have been floating around since as early as 2008. Later, it was rumored to be released in July 2009, but never made an appearance.

T-Mobile G2 to be company's 1st HSPA+ phone device.

This is an official announcement from T-Mobile, and thus, the deal is or will be sealed. The T-Mobile G2 will be T-Mobile's first HSPA+ device. It will have "a large 3.7-inch screen with a unique hinge design that opens to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard.”

Additional specs include an 800MHz MSM7230 Snapdragon processor, Android 2.2 (Froyo) 5 megapixel camera, LED flash, 720p video recording, 4GB of internal memory, and an 8GB microSD card preinstalled. In the U.S. the G2 will be a T-Mobile exclusive, and current T-Mobile customers will have the first opportunity to pre-order it later this month. T-Mobile notes limited quantities, so you can expect the normal "hot Android device sell-out and back-orders."

Folks who see only numbers might look askance at the T-Mobile G2's 800Mhz processor, due to the popularity of 1GHz processors of late, but instead they should remember that the same thing happened in desktop CPUs: more Mhz does not necessarily mean more performance. We'll reserve judgment until benchmarking occurs.

Although T-Mobile's press release indicates that the device can be pre-ordered by current T-Mobile customers later this month, it does not reveal an actual availability date or price. It also doesn't say when non-T-Mobile customers can order.

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