As much as this pains me to say, it appears as if Best Buy is becoming the place to go for popular handsets. It was not that long ago that they added the iPhone 3G and HTC Touch Diamond.

Now, it looks like customers will soon be able to grab a few more smartphones and it seems that October 26 is the day to look forward to. On that day Best Buy will make the unlocked Palm Treo Pro available. Of course, that is perhaps the least exciting of the bunch as the Pearl Flip 8220 and HTC G1 will also be made available that same day.

The original announcement was that the T-Mobile G1 was only going to support up to 8GB of external memory out of the box and would require a firmware update for any greater capacities. Well, in a little bit of good news, it seems that the firmware update is not going to be necessary after all. more »

With a little more than twenty days until the official release of the G1 we are already beginning to see some in-the-wild unboxing images starting to appear. Sadly, the use of the word “unboxing” is used a little loose here because they include just a few images of the box and a few of the handset still in the box and nothing of any great detail.

More than anything, these just serve as a little teaser for anyone waiting to get their hands on a G1. These pics, of course, came from an anonymous source, but its a safe to think that they possibly came from either a T-Mobile or Google employee. Otherwise the photographer would have taken the standard pictures of the handset in hand from every angle possible. Sadly, at this point, that earlier user manual gave us a little more in detail information. Continue on to check out the rest of the in-the-wild images…

Thankfully, we have less than an week before T-Mobile officially unveils the Android powered HTC Dream, because the rumor mill is going to end up in full swing. The latest rumored details are pretty exciting and are calling for an affordable $199 price tag. That low price, of course, comes with a contract, which will more »