Zemen, Eric . February 17, 2009. “MWC 2009: Android Phone Finally Appears From HTC”
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/02/mwc_2009_androi_1.html;

Starting yesterday, the new Android phone that is making people crazy was discussed at a press conference between Vodafone and HTC. It is called the Magic, that is a touch phone without the physical keyboard, but it still has the normal trackball and navigation keys for using applications and the phones internal system. It has a three point two inch display, Gmail, IMAP, and Google Talk to make instant messaging a lot easier. It is also equipped with a WebKit browser that contains certain Google services such as Maps, a search engine, and YouTube. The Magic will only be sold by Vodafone in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the U.K., with the conference not mentioning anything about bringing the Magic to the United States. It will be coming out this Spring.
I think that this is going to be one of the coolest phones around, well not here, but in Europe I suppose. It’s going to be very interesting to see if, eventually, Vodafone tries to push sales of the Magic towards the United States, and how much they would consider a selling price to be in order to compete with every other cool phone in the states. I wonder if this is their way of keeping separate markets and create more competition in the U.S.. Vodafone could hold off for a while until enough advertising is done here in the United States ( by Vodafone) and make more money by charging more for exporting the Magic, which could be a very profitable task.