The iPhone might be the best sold smartphone of the year but Android based phones are slowly catching up on Apple’s masterpiece and attracting a lot of consumer attention. A new Android-based mobile phone manufactured by HTC might soon find it way to US mobile carrier T-Mobile. The phone, known as ‘the Glacier’ is rumored to have performance levels three times as high as the HTC Evo 4G. It’s also said to be about 41 percent faster than Apple’s iPhone 4. Having now cleared why this phone is suddenly so interesting, a lot of info has recently leaked on the internet regarding this smartphone. For instance, AlienBabelTech has discovered that the benchmarks for the Glacier were posted on GLBenchmark.com by a certain Mike Bibik who is currently an employee at T-Mobile Seattle. The GLBenchmark site provides CPU-testing speeds for Android devices. Moreover, all of Bibik’s postings were under the name of mbibik. As expected, they were all for T-Mobile devices.
The testing results were since then taken down from the website but did give us a general idea of what T-Mobile’s future HTC phone might be like. For starters the test results mentioned a display with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels. Because of the amazing performance of this mobile phone, rumor has it that the processor included will most likely be of the 1.2 to 1.5Ghz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon variety, the first one used and released to the market.
Various sources also speculate that the Glacier might be a part of the US mobile carrier T-Mobile’s rumored Project Emerald to deliver a device with a dual-core CPU, running Google’s popular Android OS. And if you want even more speculation, other people believe that Glacier could be a new name for the HTC Vanguard which has up to this date been known under many other names such as G1 Blaze and Vision.
Throughout this year the Android operating system has recorded massive growth and what was once a market dominated by the Apple logo and the iPhone is now slowly turning into a market dominated by the little green robot. Nielsen has already reported that Google’s operating system hit a market share of 27 percent throughout the first six month of the year, 
compared to Apple’s 23 percent. Verizon has also done a good job at promoting Motorola’s Droid Android powered smartphones and it looks like consumers love to have a choice when making a purchase.
While most of the details are yet unknown, the new HTC phone called Glacier is expected to support HSPA+ speeds. Which is sort of funny if you consider the fact that T-Mobile released a teaser website last week announcing ‘the first HSPA+ smartphone from T-Mobile’ which would be introduced to the public later this year. We can’t really tell much from the blob in the picture on the mysterious T-Mobile website, but are willing to bet that it will be icy.11