• Gearlog, Bloomberg, PC Magazine, CNNMoney, The New York Times , Tuesday, September 23, 2008 10:30 AM

Reactions to a product that hasn't been unveiled yet -- the T-Mobile Google Android phone -- have been decidedly mixed but today's the day that bloggers and MSM reviewers can start wailing and flailing away in earnest. Gearlog, for one, will be covering the press conference live starting at 10:30 EST.

Quoting Forrester analyst Charles Golvin, Bloomberg reports that "T-Mobile may sell fewer than 500,000 of the phones in the next three months because they don't have the same cachet as the iPhone." As a long-time Apple lover locked into a T-Mobile family contract, I am indeed prepared to be underwhelmed, as PCMag columnist Lance Ulanoff warns, but that won't stop me from joining the rising smart-phone horde at the right price point.

But now that CNNMoney is reporting that T-Mobile "may" offer free email, the bar for being whelmed has lowered slightly (if that benefit comes through). The Times , meanwhile, has an interesting profile of HTC, the Taiwanese company chosen by Google to manufacture the phone. Started by the U.S.-educated daughter of a Taiwanese plastic mogul, HTC is itself ready to emerge from anonymity (it already manufactures about one of six smart phones in the U.S. market) and be counted among the Apples and Blackberries.

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