<<Not only does the T-Mobile G2/HTC Magic/Google Ion phone improve on original T-Mobile G1 in just about every way, it manages to do it while cutting down significantly on the size. The only thing it doesn't have going for it is a hardware keyboard.

Note: This isn't technically the G2 since it hasn't been officially released here yet, but the T-Mobile G2 will have the same hardware and the same software—the same, essentially, as the HTC Magic in Europe—so this is as close to the G2 as you're going to get until T-Mo ships their own.>>

>> http://gizmodo.com/5272229/t+mobile-g2-google-ion-review-most-improved-award

No hardware keyboard... I like that.

Google Ion is probably just a name used for Google I/O and nothing more.