T-Mobile Testing Android 2.1 for myTouch 3G With a Shot of Espresso

Now that the carriers are starting to roll out Android 2.1 updates for 1st-gen devices, T-Mobile couldn’t have the myTouch 3G left off of the VIP list for the Android 2.1 party right?  Turns out, the myTouch has its card.  The myTouch will officially be inside the velvet ropes according to T-Mo’s VP of Production Innovation, Andrew Sherrard in a recent Techland interview.

Sherrard points out that the update will come in the form of replacing the vanilla Android UI found on the myTouch, with HTC’s “Espresso” UI; which appears to be a heavily customized, less resource-hungry version of Sense. Espresso features like the “Genius Button” — an easy-access Voice Search — , and more will be on board with the update.  The upcoming myTouch Slide will also feature the Espresso UI, and the early hands-on scored by The Droid Sector last week painted the software as being quite quick.

There are still however a few things that we don’t know; like a timetable for the update, and whether or not the original Android –the G1 — will receive the update as well.  So while myTouch users now know they have something to officially look forward to, there are an awful lot of G1 users out there and we hope the first ever Android phone gets the its own VIP invite.

Techland via: AndroidandMe