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With the release of the iPhone 3G S tomorrow and the Palm Pre about two weeks old it seems like a poor time to launch a new phone.  Thankfully, the phone T-Mobile is launching isn’t something anyone would get too excited over either way.

On Wednesday T-Mobile officially launched the Dash 3G, which was previously known as the HTC Snap.  It is a pretty standard phone with a 2 MP camera, Wi-Fi and GPS along with the obvious 3G connection.  It runs on (sigh) Windows Mobile 6.1—the only significant change being that WinMo’s Inner Circle has been replaced with T-Mobile MyFaves giving easy access to the five lines T-Mobile users can call for free.  While the phone has been launched, it won’t be released until July, most likely for somewhere between $100 and $150 with a two year contract, making it almost a nonpoint given the $99 iPhone 3G.

Though not as significant as launching a new phone, T-Mobile has taken a cue from the video game industry’s recent fascination of announcing announcements, and has said that it will talk about the next Android phone next week.  That phone is likely to be the HTC Magic, possibly relabeled as the myTouch 3G. 

It’s about time we’ve heard something on this front.  The HTC Magic, also known as the Google Ion has already been previewed by Wired and the like, so it’s about time T-Mobile got around to launching it.  Even if it only confirms the phone’s existence and gives a rough time table of by the end of the summer as we’ve already known it will be better than just saying more Android phones are coming “soon.”

Read [Electronista]