T-Mobile G3 rumors heat up

Might the Era42 arrive as the T-Mobile G3?

(Credit: TmoNews)

T-Mobile could be readying a new model for its "G" series of Android smartphones, according to speculation hitting the Internet this week.

Unofficial T-Mobile blog TmoNews advises that an HTC Era 42 will arrive on the carrier's network in late September. There are no additional details to share yet, including pricing, form factor, or hardware, so at this point, it's all rumors and conjecture. But they're fairly logical rumors and conjecture.

As many longtime Android faithful know, a September 26 release would fall nearly two years to the day since the release of the G2. Going back even further, it's almost exactly four years removed from the debut of the first-ever Android smartphone, the G1. If T-Mobile were cooking up a successor in the G series of devices, the fall time frame would make sense.

The Era 42 codename could be considered a hint that the handset would be a 4G variant of the original Android. You'd have to go back to 2008 to recall this, but the G1 was known as the HTC Era G1 in select parts of Europe. It's not much of a stretch to consider that the Era 42 is simply code for a G1-esque dev... [Read more]