Hacked T-Mobile G2 ROM shows no Sense UI
updated 05:45 pm EDT, Wed August 25, 2010
T-Mobile G2 confirmed using stock Android
The T-Mobile G2's role as a flagship Android phone for Google was confirmed today as a leaked ROM (ZIP) has surfaced validating most of its details. Apart from confirming that it's the HTC Vision, the firmware makes no mention of HTC's Sense UI and corroborates stories of the G2 using plain Android, which here is 2.2 rather than 3.0. The code also shows that HSPA+ 3G will be limited in this first phone, as it will stop at the most basic 14.4Mbps download speed rather than the 21Mbps seen in modems and routers.
The G2 is already known to have a 3.7-inch (likely 800x480) touchscreen, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and an 800MHz to 1GHz processor.
No clues have surfaced as to when the phone would ship in the firmware itself, but it has been rumored for late September. Many have suspected that the phone would ship with Android 3.0, but if so it will have very little testing. The firmware is an engineering test dated from August 20 and implies T-Mobile either isn't ready for 3.0 or won't ship with it at all. [via Android Guys]
