Boys love three things: sports, spies, and cryptozoology. At least that’s what Fisher-Price is banking on with their new remote control Big Foot, an expressive monster that can sleep, somersault, and stomp with the best of ‘em. Big Foot comes with a foot shaped remote that controls its movement as well as its emotions, including buttons that make him happy, angry, or sleepy. Each button has several routines, so Big Foot won’t always be the same kind of angry when you mash on the big, kid-friendly angry button. His different states of contentment are displayed with grunts, shrugs, and movable facial features including his nose, eyes, and eyebrows.

So this really doesn’t look anything like that Bigfoot we saw a little while ago , but we can sorta see the familial resemblance if we squint really (really, really) hard. According to Boy Genius Report , what we’re looking at here is allegedly Samsung’s Android-powered Bigfoot for T-Mobile, said to be attacking the high end of the carrier’s smartphone line thanks to a 3-inch capacitive AMOLED display, full QWERTY, 3 megapixel camera, and naturally, HSDPA. If we had to guess, this is probably a newer version of the same product concept that we’d seen in that roadmap a few weeks back — Sammy probably started with its Beat DJ (or an Ocean 2 ) and worked backwards from there to get to the retail version they wanted to launch. We’re told it’ll launch “like, really soon,” so would-be G1 or myTouch 3G buyers might want to hold on for a hot second. Filed under: Cellphones , Handhelds Is this T-Mobile’s Samsung Bigfoot with Android, AMOLED, and QWERTY? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:28:00 EST

T-Mobile’s next gen T1 Android phone —Samsung’s Bigfoot—looks like it features AMOLED and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, and will actually be available sooner than we thought. Contrary to previous reports of the phone being released in October for $150, Boy Genius’s source is reporting that the Bigfoot will be launching “really soon”—perhaps as early as this summer. [ Boy Genius Report ]

Well well — it looks like whatever Android handset Motorola’s cooking up might not be the T-Mobile G1 v2 after all . Mobile-review just published this shot of a Samsung Bigfoot with a slider QWERTY keyboard, and we’ve got to say, it looks a hell of a lot more like the device in that leaked T-Mobile roadmap than that rendered Moto unit . (It also looks a lot like the Samsung Beat DJ , but that’s neither here nor there.) Not only that, but there’s also an early spec sheet and another image of a candybar set called the Spica — apart from the slider, Bigfoot and Spica are nearly identical lower-end versions of the I7500 , with three-inch screens, three megapixel cameras, and Android 2.0 “Donut” preloaded. That certainly throws a monkey wrench into what we had thought was a neatly-tied little bow, but we’ve got to say we’re stoked to see so many Android sets appearing all at once. Now if someone could just tell us when and where these would ship, we’d be all set.

Boy Genius says the next-gen T-Mobile G1 (Bigfoot) supposedly seems to continue the practice of having a slide-out QWERTY, but this time, won’t have that curved chin blocking your right hand. The phone will also supposedly launch in October for $150, so hold out if you want an Android phone on T-Mobile, but don’t like the T-Mobile G2’s lack of a physical keyboard. [ Boy Genius Report ]