Google Phone: Take a Peek

13.12.2009
An image on the (click on "Dev Phones") is apparently the HTC-made successor to the Android Dev Phone 1, and is already in the hands of select Google employees.

Back in November Michael Arrington of TechCrunch reported we would see a super-powered, in early 2010. Arrington's reports appear to be getting some as Google employees are tweeting they're running Android 2.1.

The new phone on Google's site shows a Bravo-like HTC model labeled ADP 2 alongside the Android Dev Phone 1. Google offers no information about the ADP 2 on the site -- just the image -- but tweets indicate the phone Google staff is playing with is also a GSM-unlocked phone.

According to the tweets, the phone is made by HTC, has a trackball and a high-resolution OLED display, and is "like an iPhone on beautifying steroids."

The phone's hardware sounds to be an awful lot like the HTC Bravo (aka Passion/Dragon) that was featured in and captured in back in October.

the phone will and be sold directly by Google as an unlocked GSM phone. However, even if the phone is surfacing, .