Chinavasion Eclipse Android looks like the HTC Magic.
Like the rest of the buyers of this Chinavasion phone I was stumped by the absence of a manufacturer. A previous poster had suggested it might be an H6. I decided to visit the HTC site - very nice BTW - and when looking for support by models I saw you could search by image of current and retired phones. Then BINGO, the Magic was a dead ringer for the eclipse with the exception of no TV antenna.
Looking for an update to Android 2.2 ROM, I found that v2.1 had only been made available to Magic fall of 2010. Magic was marketed for Asia, SEA, Australasia, South America, and Europe.
An interesting question is, "Why would HTC market a generic version of one of its own phones and not make any support available?" Perhaps the answer is that it's manufactured in China for the Chinese gov't ph. co. monopoly, where a SIM card phone does not pose a carrier competition problem, then the gov't phone Co does the monopoly/support? Who knows.
Since this phone sells well globally it behooves us to dig for more and better information. If others have anything to add, please do so. Thanks for reading,
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