Android-powered HTC Fiesta headed for AT&T

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Ahhh, the old ‘digging for device profiles’ trick. We’re glad the trend is resurfacing because it gives everyone a basic idea of what handsets are coming down the pipe from manufacturers but we’re even more happy that there are other people out there willing to occupy their time with hunting for these elusive XML files so we don’t have to… So we’ve known HTC had an Android handset codenamed Fiesta in development thanks to the 09 roadmap and we got confirmation that the company was moving forward with the phone thanks to Bluetooth SIG. As such, the most important takeaway from the device profile actually isn’t found in the profile itself. No, we look to the URL to find those three little letters we’ve been waiting to see tied to Android for over a year now: “A”, “T” and “T”. That’s right people, the Fiesta is looking like it will be one of AT&T’s first Android-powered handsets, if not the first. Excited that the nation’s number two is finally going to sprinkle some Google dust on a handset or are you still pissed it won’t be the Hero?

[Via Cellpassion]

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20 Comments
  • Beeve

    They’d sell more on Verizon.

  • Gauntlet Down

    I think you guys copy-n-pasted the wrong part of that profile.

    This:

    http://media.cellpassion.com/post/1658/lowres_htcfiesta.JPG

    is better.

  • Cesar Cardoso

    So the HTC Lancaster on the AT&T roadmap leaked by Engadget is actually the HTC Fiesta?

  • Me

    About time! I switched to AT&T from T-Mobile partially because they had a better lineup of 3G, touch screen smartphones, but lately it seems that AT&T has dropped the ball:

    T-Mobile: G1, MyTouch, Touch Pro 2
    Verizon: Storm (and Storm 2), Sholes
    Spring: Pre, Hero
    AT&T: We’ve got the iPhone…

    About time for them to join the Android club, and it better not be a crappy QVG phone like the rumored Lancaster. The closer that this Fiesta is to the Sony Rachael, the better.

  • DWT

    It’s be interesting to see whether AT&T blocks the native Google Voice app on their Android phone.

  • sliderocket21

    I wouldn’t be surprised if they blocked it, working for AT

  • sliderocket21

    Stupid half comment. What I MEANT to say was working for AT&T I’ve heard from some people who have used the Lancaster, that AT&T is blocking the google app store, in favor of the god awful AT&T Mall instead. That wouldn’t surprise me one bit if they decided to block all sorts of useful things on their Android phones; I wouldn’t, but I suppose that’s why I don’t run the company eh?

  • Barry McCockiner

    T-Mobile: G1, MyTouch, Touch Pro 2
    Verizon: Storm (and Storm 2), Sholes
    Spring: Pre, Hero
    AT&T: We’ve got the iPhone…

    Also, the Nokia E71x & BB Bold,

  • Vic

    @Me

    Every major carrier will carry the Touch Pro2 by the end of this year (Sprint next month), so you can cut that off the T-Mobile list. You can also add the InstinctQ to Sprint’s list since that’ll be coming out along side the Hero and sporting Android as well.

    AT&T also has the E71x as another user pointed out, but the Bold is nothing special since Verizon and Sprint offers the Tour (which is a superior device).

  • Who?

    Where does the xml file say at&t?

  • wallyson

    Party on! Where’s my 3G AT&T frequency Hero though?

  • celz

    how is the tour better than the bold..

  • tre

    i think its funny how everyone assumes the worse about at&t. google voice will be block on the google phone. its not even out yet. apple blocked the google voice app. so, it works just fine on every other phone. blackberry especially.

    i will say att has screwed its apple customers but you’re an apple customer you should be use to it by now.

  • HereAndNow

    HTC really has a lot of momentum with Android and the HTC Hero “Sense” UI shows that they are really leveraging their experience with Android.

    Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Samsung & other better push the accelerator a bit on their Android smartphone development.

  • mitch

    This had better have Sense UI

  • MrBB

    @Vic
    Are you smoking something?
    The TOUR is a Bold wannabe! How do I know? Because I own a Bold, a Tour & an IPhone? The Tour is a consolation BB for VZW & Sprint since neither carrier has the Bold nor the Curve 8900. GTFOH with that Tour>Bold gibberish!

  • Vic

    @MrBB

    I had the Bold and currently in the Tour, and the memory boost and better camera = better device in my eyes. I also had other irreverent phones as well, of which I hope by stating will somehow boost my rep and make what I stated more believable.

  • gquaglia

    Word over at Engadget says this phone will only have a numeric keyboard, no QWERTY. If this is the case, then they can keep it. I’m starting to think ATT sucks harder then any other carrier, even my arch enemy, Verizon.

  • Bjones

    This will be At&t’s lower end device. The Android Market is not compatible with the Hardware. At&t will release the Xperia X3 as their higher end Android phone.

  • Grand Master Useless

    So, if you work for AT&T, and have talked someone who’s actually had their paws on a Lancaster… could you try to prod them (AT&T) into quietly throwing us *some* kind of information on which decade we *might* actually be able to see it?

    I’m using a rooted G1 and have totally fallen in love with the ‘droid, but dearly *dearly* miss the 3G from my Touch Diamond…I’m actually considering purchasing an unlocked Rogers Magic in B.C. just for the pleasure of having Android AND 3G.

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