By Peter Bonder

Released in October 2008 in the United States, the HTC Dream is the first smartphone to be enabled with Android, the open-source mobile operating system from Google. This particular smartphone gives users simplified and instant access to all their personal Google application needs, applications like Gmail, Google Maps, Google Talk, Google Search and Youtube.

How about experiencing Google Maps Street View on your HTC at anytime? Well now you can virtually visit any city around the world that supports Google Street View in a full 360 degree panorama view. All this is possible by the smartphones link to the extremely fast 3.5G network which delivers unbelievably high data transfer rates and now accompanied with Wi-Fi and hotspot accessibility, users will never be without internet on their mobile devices ever again.

Users can effortlessly install and load programs, music, and games all with just a push of a button. A neat Dream feature is this phone fits itself with a digital compass and motion sensor. Never miss a moment with a built in 3.2 megapixel digital camera to take all those beautiful colored photos wherever you maybe.

The Dream is proud to carry a 3.2 inch touch display with 320x480 HVGS pixel resolution, flip it open to bring out the full QWERTY keyboard and 6 navigation buttons hidden nicely underneath. You can personalize your main screen with immediate notification when receiving email, instant messaging and text messaging.

There is plenty of room to go around, the HTC smartphone can house SD 2.0 and micro-SD cards through the cameras expansion slot which will give users up to 16 Gig and up in expanded memory. The HTC Dream is equipped with a flash ROM of 256 MB and a RAM of'2 MB.

The phone also has GPS navigation capabilities for people who constantly are on the move, thanks to Google Maps included with the Dream. Video formats supported by this phone are H.264, 3GPP, 3GP, MPEG4, and streaming videos.

Speaking time and phone life varies if you are either on the GSM or WCDMA coverage. The WCDMA supports 350 minutes of speaking time while allowing it to be idle for 402 hrs whereas the on the GSM users will have 406 minutes of speaking time while allowing it to be idle for 319 hrs. With all these features the HTC Dream is an absolute dream for anyone looking for a smartphone to cater to all their Google services, internet and telephone needs.

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