The HTC Dream (also marketed as T-Mobile G1 in Europe and the US) is an Internet-enabled smartphone with an operating system designed by Google and hardware designed by HTC. It is the first (and as of April 2009, the only) phone to the market that uses the Android mobile device platform.The phone is part of an open standards effort of the Open Handset Alliance. It was released in the US on October 22, 2008, in the UK on October 30, 2008,and will be available in other European countries including Austria, Netherlands, France and the Czech Republic in early 2009. It was released in Germany in February 2009 with a QWERTZ keyboard. As of March 10, 2009 it is available in Poland under a local mobile brand affiliated with T-Mobile as Era G1.In the US, it is priced starting at $179.99 for new and existing T-Mobile customers if purchased with a two-year T-Mobile voice and data plan, and $399 without a contract.Contrary to claims made by T-Mobile representatives, the handset does not need the data plan to work, however, the Access Point Name (APN) settings need to be changed to make the Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS-Picture Messages) work. The Dream comes in black, bronze (not in the UK), or white.
On 5 February 2009, the phone was released through Optus in Australia, as the HTC Dream. On 21 February 2009, Singapore became the first country in Asia to introduce the phone. It was sold by SingTel between $25 – $159 under various contracts.
Telefonica will also launcha version of the phone in Spainwith slightly modified control buttons.
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