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Images from around the web are showing the HTC Dream AKA the T-Mobile G1 in all its bendy, screen-sliding glory. This Sidekick-like phone has a pop up screen, full QWERTY keyboard, and none of the buckets of suck that characterize Windows Mobile phones. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/26/its-official-the-g1-from-t-mobile-is-the-first-android-phone 8/26)

Despite a weak battery and questions about how fast it connects to 3G networks, some time in the next week more than 6 million iPhone 3Gs will be in people’s hands around the world. What that means is that the second generation device has outsold the original iPhone just seven weeks after going on sale. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/26/iphone-3gs-now-outnumber-first-generation-iphones 8/26)

Movie focused social network Flixster acquired a popular iPhone application called Movies.app (iTunes link) last week, and has re-released the application this evening. As far as we know, this is the first acquisition of an iPhone app. The price isn’t being disclosed. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/26/college-sophomore-sells-his-iphone-app-to-flixster 8/26)