T-Mobile Google’s Android Smartphone

It is official, T-Mobile, Google’s long-time mobile partner, will announce the first Android Smartphone, the HTC Dream, next week during a press conference in NYC and possibly during a Google Developer’s day held in Munich, Germany on the same day.

Techcrunch is saying that the device will cost USD 200 -on a two-year contract with T-Mobile - although some say it could go down to USD 149 - with the smartphone costing USD 400 when purchased alone; the blog also carries the screenshot of a T-mobile US page which puts time of launch at 10:30am.

A device that looked lilke a HTC Dream was also on display yesterday to a Google Developer Audience in Wembley, London.

The phone will almost certainly come with a tactile screen, complete with a trackball (just like the Blackberry), a QWERTY keyboard, a digital camera, a full array of Google applications including Chrome and assisted GPS functionality.

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