China Mobile appears to be preparing to work on another Android based handset, we have already seen the Lenovo, and now this latest will be alot more familiar looking to most people. It is a China Mobile branded HTC Magic (HTC G2). As of now the launch of the Magic has not been made official, that is still on track for May, although an exact date has not yet been announced. Also unknown is the pricing, both in terms of the handset and also monthly plans.

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In terms of the hardware, under the hood there’s little different to the G1.  What HTC have tweaked is the software, which has made the capacitive touchscreen more responsive and the smartphone as a whole speedier.  The Android software stack itself has few differences, the most obvious being the new on-screen keyboard.  80-percent of the time the Magic is used in portrait orientation, and the keyboard won’t work in landscape orientation aside from with apps - such as the browser - that f...

The HTC Magic is based on the Qualcomm MSM7201a chipset running at 528MHz.  It has quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE and dualband HSPA/WCDMA (900/2100MHz) for up to 7.2Mbps downlink and 2Mbps uplink speeds, network depending.  In addition there’s WiFi b/g, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and HTC’s own ExtUSB port which incorporates both a USB 2.0 connection and an audio jack (with an included adapter to use standard 3.5mm headsets).

Other specs include GPS - which works with Android’s Google Maps and Street Vie...