I just got the official invite to the launch party for the T-Mobile G1, aka the HTC Dream, aka the Google Phone, the first-ever retail phone running Google's Android platform. As you can see from the invite above, it's going to be a big deal, with T-Mobile and Google execs speaking and a hideous scrum of reviewers jockeying to get their hands on tethered-down units afterwards. In other words, it's going to be great. We'll cover it when it happens, and we'll have a review up as soon as we can an actual review model.

We still don't know when it's going on sale or at what price, though.

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