Rogers’ HTC Dream and Magic aren’t “Google phones,” have Exchange support
Remember how we found out that there’s a difference between the Google-branded Android firmware and its HTC-modified equivalent, and the latter isn’t allowed feature the silkscreened Google logo? The HTC version is way cooler on account of its Exchange ActiveSync support and the much-improved camera app; the only downside is that you can’t flaunt that logo on the case, which — let’s be honest — is totally meaningless to an end user (unless you’re some raving Google fanboy / fangirl, and in that case, no amount of awesome customization is going to sway you). Anyhow, it’s up to individual carriers to decide which versions of the devices they wish to launch, and Rogers customers will be excited to know that they’re getting the logo-free HTC builds. That makes Canadian Dreams and Magics a whole hell of a lot more useful to business users than the G1s down in the States, and going forward, this is an issue T-Mobile probably wants to think about — as long as the base Android code doesn’t license ActiveSync, anyway.
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