Pictured: Custom Android Build for the Rogers Dream and Magic
By James Falconer on Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 at 6:49 AM PST In Android, HTC, Photos, Rogers
Canadians are now getting to grips with the Android OS, now that the HTC Magic and Dream are available on Rogers. As it turns out, the two Android-powered devices actually come pre-loaded with their own custom build of Android. The build is a heavily ‘Rogersed-out’ version with bright reds throughout, a handy ‘My Account’ launcher, T9 soft keyboard, Exchange support, Quickoffice, PDF Reader and more. This of course is all made possible because these new devices are not ‘Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Experience’ phones… thus, Rogers (NYSE: RCI) and HTC can tweak up their own ‘custom’ build of Android to their liking.
Need more Rogers/Android love? You can check out a full set of screenshots over at Flickr.
[EngadgetMobile via Android and Me]
Wow that’s awesome. In one stroke Rogers made sure I won’t be buying any of these devices. Custom firmware + Rogers = total crap.
I totally agree with mhny – carrier-customized firmware is horrible, 99/100 times.