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Pictured: Custom Android Build for the Rogers Dream and Magic

Categories: Android, HTC, Photography, Rogers
By: , IntoMobile
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 at 6:49 AM

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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 Experience’ phones… thus, Rogers 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]

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  • mhny

    Wow that’s awesome. In one stroke Rogers made sure I won’t be buying any of these devices. Custom firmware + Rogers = total crap.

  • Isaac Waller

    I totally agree with mhny – carrier-customized firmware is horrible, 99/100 times.