T-Mobile USA have confirmed that the Android 1.6 OS update is now being pushed out to owners of G1 and myTouch 3G handsets. According to the shot, starting on February 26th a new Android 1.6 (DMD64) update began its rollout. The release will continue through March 15th, when T-Mobile hopes to be done with this one.

Details of the update include:
*This software update improves customers’ call performance only and does not include any additional feature enhancements.
*The Android 1.6 DMD64 OTA will be sent to G1 customers only and will not be sent to customers using other Android devices at this time.
If you’re on the T-Mo G1 and haven’t received notification yet, no worries. It’s coming. One day soon you’ll receive a notification asking you to install now or later.

Via Android Phone News

Labels: T-Mobile G1

T-Mobile may be on the verge of updating its Android phones with the 1.6 update with "Donut" features, a last-minute leak has confirmed. Starting today, the carrier is reported by TmoNews to be giving both G1 and myTouch 3G users the upgraded features, which are known to include device-wide search, gestures, text-to-speech and likely the redesigned Android Market. A handful of G1 owners have had the update as of midnight; 24 hours from that point, some myTouch 3G owners should also get the update barring technical issues found in the test rollout.

The release will follow the approach T-Mobile took for the 1.5 update and stagger the update over coming days across all Android phones on the network rather than patch all of them at once. T-Mobile hasn't yet confirmed the update plans, but a small number of G1 owners report already receiving 1.6 on their phones and haven't mentioned issues that would preclude the myTouch update this evening.

Labels: T-Mobile G1