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Confirmed: MyTouch Fender delayed till 2010

Taylor Wimberly — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:29:59 +0000

Our guesswork has been confirmed. We speculated that the T-Mobile myTouch 3G Fender Limited Edition might be delayed and it turned out to be true. I am disappointed the phone will not launch this year, but I’m really intrigued to see that wood grain finish now. It was so special that it apparently caused the device to slip to 2010. Check out the following response we just received from T-Mobile:

“Due to last-minute refinements to the unique finish of the T-Mobile myTouch 3G Fender Limited Edition, T-Mobile has decided not to launch the device before the end of the year. T-Mobile customers will already have an impressive lineup to choose from for their holiday wish lists including the T-Mobile myTouch 3G, the Motorola CLIQ with MOTOBLUR, the Samsung Behold II, and the BlackBerry Bold 9700 among others.”

MyTouch 3G Fender Delayed Edition

Taylor Wimberly — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:12:01 +0000

Update (11/5): T-Mobile has confirmed the delay.

We had been expecting to see the myTouch 3G Fender Limited Edition this year. T-Mobile was touting the phone as part of their industry leading holiday lineup.

Tmonews posted a rumor last week that the phone might be delayed and new details appear to confirm it.

T-Mobile CTO Cole Broadman spoke at the Open Mobile Summit this morning in San Francisco. A lot of new information came out including T-Mobile promoting it will have four Android devices in time for the holidays.

G1
myTouch 3G
Cliq
Behold II

We are now expecting the Fender device will launch sometime in early 2010. Maybe T-Mobile and HTC are retooling the phone to include either the Sense UI or Android 2.0 (I’m hoping both).

If we get an official response from T-Mobile, we will update this story.