As you may have noticed by now, Rogers has released the HTC Dream on June 2nd (known as the T-Mobile G1 in United States). The HTC Dream was the first Android phone released as well as one of the first Android phone released on Rogers and in Canada. The phone goes for $149.99 on a three-year voice and data plan with a minimum combined monthly service fee of $45 or $599.99 for the no-term price. Rogers also threw the grandfathered $30/6gb plan back along with the release.

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T-Mobile G1 customers have been anxiously awaiting the Android 1.5 “Cupcake” update that seems to be delayed every week. However, T-Mobile issued a statement today saying that they are finalizing the update and have reset the rollout by a week. They also stated that everyone would have the update by early June. Check out the full statement after the jump.

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It has been a while since we told you about the Android Cupcake update features. A T-Mobile spokesperson has let out that they will be releasing it in April This update will fix many complaints that Android users have. Cupcake will bring along a virtual keyboard, a notepad, new window opening/closing effects, an application manager, and more.

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Android users should be excited about a new software update called “Cupcake” coming to their phones. Cupcake is going to fix many issues with the operating system and add a bundle of features. Some of the new features include

• New Local Setting Page – Gives you option to pick different locales and pick different text inputs.
• New Option to view running and third party applications - An option to view running and third party applications from the normal application list. Does not provide a way to terminate them.
• New windows opening/closing animation effect - a new popping effect when windows are opened/closed.
• New default notepad - a very simple and ugly default notepad.
• New Global Time application - not sure if it will be provided by T-Mobile but it’s just a rotating Earth and I couldn’t get it to do anything else.
• New Spare Parts Application – Once again not sure if the official version will have this, but it provides a number of extra settings such as setting windows animation and transition animation speed, font size, end button behavior and etc. It also has a “display rotation” option which supposedly should allow auto-rotate base on orientation across the entire os, but it is not currently working.
• New Virtual Keyboard - The virtual keyboard will pop up on every edit box. I didn’t feel any haptic feedback but I am thinking that it’s just not there on the example keyboard. Because the phone does not auto-rotate (an option exists but it doesn’t work), it’s very hard to type on it. The sample keyboard also does not provide auto-corrections.
• Slightly better looking buttons with more shadow

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That is apparently the new T-Mobile G2 that will fun Google’s Android. This rumor is still unconfirmed and may turn out to be untrue, so don’t blame us. From what we heard, it is going to be an all touch screen, no physical keyboard like the G1. We previously reported a date of January 2009, but we have now heard April 2009 is the planned date. It has also been reported that a G3 will come shortly after the release of the G2.

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We have received many reported that pre-ordered T-Mobile G1’s have showed up via UPS today. Always nice to get a phone a few days earlier than expected! Let us know what you think.

The T-Mobile G1 (or Dream as it was branded by HTC) has landed in the T-Mobile retail system. The above is a shot of an internal SKU list that shows the phone in three colors: white, brown, and black. It also confirms the phone, while there were previously just rumored pictures The G1 will run Android, which is Google’s new OS for phones. 

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