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| Manufacturer | HTC |
|---|---|
| Type | Slider smartphone |
| Release date | October 22, 2008 (United States) February 5, 2009 (Australia) February 21, 2009 (Singapore) June 2, 2009 (Canada) |
| Operating system | Android 1.6[1][2] Originally Android 1.0 Upgradable to Android 2.3 unofficially |
| Power | 3.7 V 1150 mAh Internal rechargeable removable lithium-ion battery |
| CPU | 528 MHz Qualcomm MSM7201A ARM11 processor |
| Storage capacity | Flash memory: 256 MB microSD slot: supports up to 16 GB |
| Memory | 192 MB RAM |
| Display | 320 x 480 px, 3.2 in (81 mm), HVGA, 65,536 color LCD at 180 pixels per inch (ppi) |
| Input | capacitive touchscreen display, QWERTY keyboard, trackball, volume controls, 3-axis accelerometer |
| Camera | 3.2 megapixel with auto focus |
| Connectivity | Wi-Fi (802.11b/g), Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, ExtUSB, A-GPS Quad band GSM 850 900 1800 1900 MHz GPRS/EDGE Dual band UMTS 1700 2100 MHz HSDPA/HSUPA (US/Europe) (7.2/2 Mbit/s) |
| Dimensions | 117.7 mm (4.63 in) (h) 55.7 mm (2.19 in) (w) 17.1 mm (0.67 in) (d) |
| Weight | 158 g (5.6 oz) |
| Successor | HTC Desire Z/T-Mobile G2 |
Release history
The HTC Dream was released in the US on 22 October 2008; in the UK on 30 October 2008; [5] and became available in other European countries including Austria, Netherlands, and the Czech Republic in early 2009.[6] It was released in Germany in February 2009 with a QWERTZ keyboard[7] and in France in March 2009 with an AZERTY keyboard.[8] On 10 March 2009, it became available in Poland as Era G1 under a local mobile brand affiliated with T-Mobile.[9]As of 2008[update], in the US, it was priced starting at $129.99 for new and existing T-Mobile customers if purchased with a two-year T-Mobile voice and data plan, and $399 without a contract.[10] Congruent with claims made by T-Mobile representatives, the handset does need the data plan to fully function as a smartphone, but can be used as a regular phone (with some smartphone capabilities available when connected to a WiFi network) without a data plan. The Dream comes in black, bronze (formerly called "brown"; except in the UK), or white.[11]
On 23 April 2009, T-Mobile USA announced it had sold one million G1s since the device's launch.[12]
On 5 February 2009, the phone was released through Optus in Australia, as the HTC Dream.[13] On 21 February 2009, Singapore became the first country in Asia to introduce the phone. It was sold by SingTel between $38 – $238 under various contracts.[14] [15] Telefónica also launched a version of the phone in Spain on 20 April 2009[16][17] with slightly modified control buttons.[18]
On June 2, 2009 it was released through Rogers Wireless in Canada as the HTC Dream. This variant, DREA210, supports the UMTS 850 / 1900 bands and HSDPA up to 7.2Mbps for use on Rogers' 3G network.[19]
On July 27, 2010 the T-Mobile G1 was officially discontinued.
Hardware
- Display: 3.2 in (8.1 cm) TFT-LCD flat glass touch-sensitive HVGA screen with 480 × 320 pixel resolution. The capacitive touchscreen makes it impossible to use a standard stylus. Users can interact to bring up or move content with a finger touch, tapping or touch-drag motion.[20] Although the touchscreen hardware is capable of multitouch gestures, official releases of the Android OS (versions 1.0 to 1.6) have this functionality disabled for the phone at the kernel level. Users can patch the supplied version of Android, download a hacked version or update to Android 2.0 or later to make use of the multi-touch screen.[21]
- CPU: The MSM7201A is an ARM-based, dual-core[22] CPU/GPU from Qualcomm and contains many built-in features, including 3G and a GPU capable of up to 4 million triangles/sec. It has hardware acceleration for Java,[23] but this does not accelerate execution of Android applications, as they are targeted to the Dalvik VM, not the Java VM.
- Keyboard: The HTC Dream has a sliding full 5 row QWERTY (QWERTZ/AZERTY) keyboard. It also comes with a set of 6 navigation buttons:
- phone (green, white/black in Germany, UK & France) – make outbound calls, receive incoming calls, or open the dialer.
- home (white/black) – displays home screen with shortcut icons for some applications and a drawer containing all applications on the phone.
- trackball – navigate among items on the screen or scroll in text fields.
- back (white/black) – return to the previous screen.
- phone (red, white/black in Germany, UK & France) – end currently active call or put phone into sleep mode.
- menu (white/black) – display the contextual menu for the current screen.
- a touchscreen keyboard is available as of Android 1.5. Note: this feature does not work on phones sold to be used on the Rogers Wireless network.[24]
- Side controls: A pair of volume buttons is located on the left side of the phone, and a camera button on the right side.
- Audio: In place of a headphone jack, the Dream (like many HTC smartphones) has a mini-USB-compatible ExtUSB jack [25][26] that carries audio signals alongside the regular USB signals, and can be converted with a dongle (now shipped with the phone) to support any standard 3.5 mm headphone. The standard headset includes a clip-on microphone and call answer/hangup button. The Dream supports audio files in MP3, AAC, AAC+, WMA, MPEG4, WAV, MIDI, and Ogg formats.[27]
- Camera: The HTC Dream has a 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus functionality.[28] There is no light ("flash") for the camera in low light conditions.
- Video: The Dream can play H.264, streaming, 3GPP, MPEG4, and 3GP files.[27] Video recording and uploading to YouTube is available as of Android 1.5. Recording resolution 352x288 H.263 3GP Mono sound @ 8 kHz.
- Storage: The HTC Dream has a microSD card slot and comes with a 1 GB memory card (2 GB in the UK, Germany and Canada). It has been confirmed to work with capacities up to 16 GB, and may work with even larger cards.[29] When the USB cable is connected to a computer, this computer can access the card without removing it from the HTC Dream. The phone can access media files arranged in folders, but the folders have to be created from a third-party file management application or from a computer or a third-party file-manager program on the phone.
- Battery: The HTC Dream has a user-replaceable, 3.7V, 1150 mAh (4.25Whr) rechargeable lithium ion battery, which is advertised to offer up to 130 hours of standby power.
- Orientation and location: The HTC Dream provides an accelerometer for detecting movement and determining which direction is 'Up'. It also has a digital compass, giving it complete orientation data. The Dream includes a GPS receiver for fine-grained positioning, and can use cellular or wifi networks for coarse-grained positioning.
- Case: Three different colors are available: black, bronze, white.
- Connectivity: Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) using a Texas Instruments WL1251B chipset; Bluetooth 2.0+EDR via Texas Instruments BRF6300; ExtUSB with an SMSC USB3316 chipset; standalone GPS and A-GPS; Quad band GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz and GPRS/EDGE, plus Dual band UMTS Bands I and IV (1700 & 2100 MHz) and HSDPA/HSUPA (in US/Europe) at 7.2/2 Mbit/s using the Qualcomm RTR6285 chipset
Software
The HTC Dream runs the Android Operating System. Most of the code is free software with some exceptions.[30]Several applications that come installed with this device are:
- Full HTML web browser powered by the WebKit rendering engine; it allows a maximum of 8 windows (but not multiple windows in the same screen, except in reduced size for the purpose of selecting one)
- Gmail
- Google Calendar
- Google Maps (with Latitude)
- Google Talk
- YouTube video player[27]
Updating
The Dream firmware can be updated by flashing from an image stored on the microSD card as an update.zip or with a custom recovery as any name.[34] These images are cryptographically signed by either the phone manufacturer or network carrier.[35] Along with other features, support for widgets were introduced through updates.[36] As of Friday, December 18, 2009, HTC and Rogers Wireless have both stated that they will not support Non-Google branded HTC Magic and HTC Dream phones past Android Version 1.5. HTC changed the content of its website to reflect this (Magic), (Dream), and Rogers Wireless notified the Android community by a post in AndroidForums.When it comes to receiving the latest Android OS updates, the Dream has been left behind. For example, on T-Mobile, the Dream remains at Android version 1.6, and it is unlikely that it will be updated since the model has been discontinued.[37] Installing later versions of Android OS is still possible by installing custom ROMs, but this requires the phone to be "rooted".
Developer edition
On December 5, 2008, Google announced the Android Dev Phone 1, a hardware unlocked version of the HTC Dream. With this version, the user is not only able to use any GSM/UMTS carrier, but also has complete superuser access to the device which is not found in the retail version. The advantages to this version is that it gives full access to the internal files of the phone, in particular changing and re-flashing the bootloader and operating system.[38] This version also has pre-installed utilities to aid in the development of Android apps. This version is sold for US$399 and is only available to registered members of the Android community which is open to all developers for a US$25 fee.[39] Depending on the country, the additional shipping charges (which include tariff and tax) may amount to a substantial fraction of the base price; for example, shipping charges to United Kingdom are $128.25, to Germany are US$134.31 and to Poland US$162.Rooting
Upon the launch of the T-Mobile G1, one concern among developers was that limitations[what specifically?] were present in its build of Android that blocked superuser access to the phone. However, a severe vulnerability was soon discovered in early versions of the firmware — everything typed into the phone's keyboard was being interpreted as commands in a root shell.[40] By using telnetd to exploit this, users could flash a modified image with root access. This process, dubbed "rooting" by the community,[41] allows users to gain superuser access and perform actions previously impossible without root access, such as installing custom builds of Android, running Debian,[42] installing custom themes, and enabling ad-hoc Wi-Fi tethering. Although Google and T-Mobile were quick to patch this vulnerability with update RC30, a ROM from HTC was later leaked allowing users to downgrade to an older firmware with the bug.[43] The Android Dev Phone 1 comes with superuser access officially integrated into its firmware, allowing native code and custom kernels to be run without any special hacks.[44]Rooting also allows the use of modified images to run on the G1 through the original vulnerability. For example, a leaked HTC Magic (Android 1.5) OS was modified to run on the device. Before the official Android 1.5 build for the HTC Dream was released (which included these features), this enabled functionality such as video recording, stereo Bluetooth and an on-screen keyboard.
One popular unofficial firmware release for the Dream/G1 is CyanogenMod which (as of December 6, 2010) is at version 6.1.[45] It is almost a full port of Android 2.2.1 to the Dream/G1.
Following the disclosure of a root exploit, Jay Freeman released details of how to run Android and ARM Debian Linux together on the Dream
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