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Attempts to keep the most hotly anticipated consumer electronics devices under wraps these days are getting more and more futile. It’s hard enough for companies to control disgruntled employees and leaks in the international supply chain, stir in a giant government organization and things quickly unravel. Case in point: what is widely believed to be the world’s first Android handset, T-Mobile’s HTC Dream. After Engadget loosed the Dream from its FCC constraints on the 18th of August, HTC contacted the agency on the 19th with a request to use a less detailed diagram for the FCC label placement. Fortunately for us they complied, giving us what can only be construed as official measurements in the process. The newly unveiled 115 x 55-mm dimensions tells us that it beats the iPhone 3G in terms of length and width but is almost certainly thicker than the iPhone due to the Dream’s sliding QWERTY. However, it’s still longer and wider than both the Xperia X1 and HTC’s own Touch Pro QWERTY handsets.