OMG!!! iphone killer FTW!!! Gonna pwn everything!

Not really, but still looks pretty promising.

This piece of crap (visually speaking of course) is supposed to reign over the iPhone as being the superior phone?

HA

I'm sorry but I just can't see that happening. Even with it being completely open to developers and most carriers.

So what ever happened to Open Moko? Wasn't that supposed to also take over the iPhone because it was so "open" and anyone could develop for it?

I see this as just being another "side project" or "beta concept" that will never reach the expectations of the people that love it so much just like all the other half completed projects google has lying around.

Android = FAIL

Wow. That phone is Ugly's father and inventor.

I see, the phone is called the "Dream"
Wasn't comprehending the post title.

@DeepFriar: Not just you. I thought this with something about the phone being a dream, as in not reality.

What's the deal with OpenMoko? I read all this stuff about how that phone/standard was supposed to revolutionize things and haven't seen anything about it in months.

Um guys....that is an old picture and is not what is being described in the article. Try reading next time before you make comments.

Wow, its amazing how people make comments without even reading the article. The article states, "HTC handset is around five inches long and 3 inches wide with a keypad that either slides or swivels out." So the phone in the picture is obviously not the phone. It amazes me how some people are so ignorant/stupid/retarded. It doesn't take much for a phone to be better than the iphone. My tilt destroys the iphone any day. Im sure htc's new device will be even better, and I'm sure google's android will help make it better. I mean I'm happy with my wm 6.1, it looks better and works better than the iphone os. But I'm curious to see what Android has to offer. And I'm also curious to see how htc will improve on their top of the line device(kaiser).

If you go over to engadget, they have a pic of a different phone.

Meh, android has a long way to catch up now that Apple released the SDK - maybe I'll be using it by mid/late 2009?

don't come at me with the fanboy garbage, you know it's true.

@blankmind13: If you really think WM is better than the iphone OS, or even not a piece of crap in general, you sir, have issues.

@metalhaze: the phone in the picture is not going to be the dream, they said a slide-out keypad. which means a front that's all touchscreen.

and OpenMoko failed because no major company picked it up. when you're being promoted by the google army, and having your software put onto HTC and samsung phones, the 2 arguably best phone makers out there, you have a potential to kick serious ass.
hopefully, android won't be GSM only. i'm sticking with sprint for now, and i wouldn't mind a nice android phone or android-powered smartphone when my contract is up. i'd even splurge on unlimited vision to take advantage of the full browser and the native gmail app, and shove it my iPhone-fangirl girlfriend's face.

I'm amused at all the comments based on a picture that has fuck-all to do with the article at hand.

I expect that kind of thing at Engadget or Digg; not so often here.

I'm expecting a gphone to have limitations in the custom software and pc connectivity departments that will make it useless in comparison to a Windows Mobile phone.

Believe it or not I was talking about the look of Andriod...

Android looks like crap...I could design a better looking UI

And thats the great thing about Android, if you CAN design a better looking UI you CAN do it. All you have to do is code it on your computer and upload it to the phone.

@blankmind13: The stupidity of some people has stopped amazing me really. Getting kinda used to it.

It would have been wiser for HTC to start with a full touch screen in order to spur the open source community into developing plugins that allow for iPhone-like interface elegance in the best of cases and to improve beyond the limits of the iPhone in others.

Those plugins will still come IMOHO, but they will trickle in at a slow rate and fail to prevent a lot of people from hopping on the iPhone bandwagon who have not already done so. This is a unique opportunity HTC has to corner the Android hardware market (at least during the first month or so after launch) and help focus Android plugin development by the opportunities that the hardware offers. HTC is blowing it IMO by taking a conservative investment approach (and basically delivering a Blackberry like device that is unlikely to steal any smart phone market share from RIM). I'm pulling for Android and Open Source but the OS needs to be damn compelling and ultra-customizable before I would be ready to take the plunge.

Hmmm, funny i picked up my palm centro to see how big it was compared to it....Hmm looks almost exactly the same..