The HTC Magic (marketed as the T-Mobile myTouch 3G in the United States and the NTT DoCoMo HT-03A in Japan) is a smartphone designed and manufactured by HTC, including a version for T-Mobile USA's "myTouch" re-branded series of phones. It is the second HTC device to run the Android software stack, after the HTC Dream. Vodafone unveiled the Magic on February 17, 2009 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The Magic went on sale in Spain on April 27, 2009, in the UK and Taiwan in May 2009, and in Singapore, Hong Kong and The Netherlands in June 2009. It became more widely available to customers in Germany (Vodafone), France (SFR), Philippines (SMART Communications), India (Airtel) and non-exclusively in Italy and Sweden, and other countries. The device was released in Canada by Rogers Wireless on 2 June 2009. Vodafone has exclusive rights to sell the HTC Magic in some of the markets they service.
Pre-orders for the smartphone in the United States through T-Mobile USA began on 8 July 2009. T-Mobile officially released on 5 August 2009. In Russia, there was information that it would be available via Russian HTC official online store for about 770 USD, but soon HTC announced that it decided to sell another Android-powered device instead of HTC Magic. The first Android device officially sold in Russia was later revealed to be the HTC Hero.
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