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January 19th, 2010, 11:37 GMT · By

T-Mobile Pulse (U8220) to Soon Taste Android 2.1

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T-Mobile Pulse might receive Android 2.1 in the near future
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The Android 2.1 flavor, which became official at the beginning of the ongoing year on the Nexus One by HTC sold via Google's own web store, is now set to make an appearance on yet another handset on the market. The phone in question is the T-Mobile Pulse from Huawei, available for purchase in the UK for quite some time now, and which is expected to taste the Android 2.1 in the following few months.

It seems that some Android enthusiasts already contacted the handset's maker on the matter, and were informed that an Android 2.1 update for the T-Mobile Pulse is in preparation. The Chinese mobile phone maker aims at providing its users with the latest flavor of the Android operating system, and that should happen before April is here, it seems. Here's what Huawei reportedly answered to questions regarding the Android 2.1 platform on Pulse:

We are planning to develop the ROM 2.0 and 2.1, the ROM 2.0 may be released before April and at the same time we need to get approval from T-Mobile.

Customers can get this information from the T-Mobile website when the new firmware is released and approved by T-Mobile.

Many thanks. Huawei support


The answer is as straightforward as it can be. However, the big question that is still unanswered is whether T-Mobile will also approve and deliver the update to users. The carrier has discontinued the Pulse, androidandme reports, so the owners of a T-Mobile Pulse have all the reasons to be worried that it won't deliver the new OS flavor to them.

However, the Pulse is said to be similar in specs with the highly popular HTC Magic and Hero (at least when it comes to its processor and ROM), which will receive the Android 2.1 blessing, so it has all the chances to receive the update to the new flavor in the end. However, until an official announcement comes from T-Mobile, nothing can be said for sure.

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Comment #1 by: Daniel Owen on 19 Jan 2010, 14:27 UTC reply to this comment

HTC use the Sense UI on top of android, so not really relavant to this conversation, their development of of 2.1 will have nothing to do with Huawei


Comment #2 by: James Baker on 21 Jan 2010, 00:01 UTC reply to this comment

That's wrong. SenseUI is just that, a UI, like SlideScreen or Open Home.

The core kernel is the same.


Comment #3 by: Anders on 22 Apr 2010, 21:06 UTC reply to this comment

So... when will it arrive? It's almost may now..


Comment #4 by: Majja on 26 Apr 2010, 15:25 UTC reply to this comment

How to set my wallpaper fixd???
im so nervous about it????


Comment #5 by: Nigel on 13 May 2010, 22:44 UTC reply to this comment

Just received this in a support email from T_Mobile.

...Coming to the software update for pulse from 1.5 to 2.x it'd be done but, we're not sure about when this is going to happen.

Comment #5.1 by: Erik Rosdol on 21 Jun 2010, 12:34 GMT

Be forwarned, I tried the hungarian Version on the Pulse and it worked - HOWEVER - the BT stack seems to be totally broken, I could noch work with my in-car handsfree syste. There is a lot of reports from other users already, indicating, that the BlueTooth folks within Android failed big time.
Erik


Comment #6 by: Chris on 29 Jun 2010, 07:04 UTC reply to this comment

I've installed the Hungarian Android 2.1 update and I'm very happy with it. My Bluetooth works though I'm not an advanced user and I don't know what "the BT stack" is!


Comment #7 by: add on 20 May 2011, 13:44 UTC reply to this comment

My Android. Not work properly

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