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Wouldn’t it be funny, right, if you went into a T-Mobile shop and said “hello shopkeep, I would like to purchase on this find day today something I read about on the interweb. It’s a phone, a cracking if somewhat ugly Google Android phone called the HTC Hero. That’s right, spotty young sir, the HTC Hero. Apparently it’s all very modern and efficient in connecting you to said interweb whilst also being able to fit into your hand, being as it is a mobile phone communication device. Now what, sniggering urchin, do you say to my request. Hmm?”

And then the acne-ridden tool would mumble something about the HTC Hero actually being re-branded as the T-Mobile G2 Touch for it’s release on T-Mobile. That is was exactly the same phone, but T-Mobile had just given it a different name. “But I want the HTC Hero, see, look here, I printed out the thing here, on this sheet right here, look at this, if you can read, you miserable buffoon – the HTC Hero it says, several times in fact. This is the phone I would like to purchase today. I have cash. Plenty of it too. More than you probably earn in a week you giggling piece of grease.”

And the admonished clerk might try and explain again that the T-Mobile Touch was exactly the same phone. Exactly. That the HTC Hero just isn’t called the HTC Hero on T-Mobile. Then he might even pull up this T-Mobile G2 Touch review on his screen to prove it. Or show the gentleman the official page, then the same page for the HTC Hero and show how all the specs and stats lined up. But then the gent would demand, would absolutely insist that he wanted the HTC Hero… and it would be hilarious.

Right? Wouldn’t it? Ahh, balls to you. It’s comedy gold and you know it. If only the cast of Monty Python were still around, they’d be up for it…

Ah, those giddy days when the HTC Magic was blogged about on these very pages. The date was 15th July 2009, a distant age of innocence and happiness when it seemed the summer would never end, and we were all excited about the possibilities that the various Google-Android-powered functions that phone could offer. How we could use it to find pubs and kebab shops, for example.

Well, now it’s the turn of the T-Mobile myTouch 3G to be blogged about and, well, those distant days of the HTC Magic suddenly seem all the more closer and more distinct as we realise that the myTouch 3G is nothing but the HTC Magic. Literally. It’s exactly the same phone, just with T-Mobile branding on the front and some T-Mobile skinning on the UI.

So, there we have it. You already know all about the T-Mobile myTouch 3G because we already told you all about the HTC Magic. Need some memory refreshing? Try the official site. Or this T-Mobile myTouch 3G review. Or this so-grating-you-want-to-punch-your-screen video below. In the meantime we’re going to close our eyes, drink some Pimms, turn up the heat and imagine it was summer once again. Ah, the 15th July, how we miss you so very much.