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T-Mobile will be the first carrier to offer a mobile phone powered by Google’s Android software, according to people briefed on the company’s plans. The phone will be made by HTC, one of the largest makers of mobile phones in the world, and is expected to go on sale in the United States before Christmas, perhaps as early as October. – NY Times

According to the New York Times the phone will have iPhone like touch screen, with a keyboard that slides out. First Google phone will have all internet capabilities. The only problem is the T-mobile’s dinosaur network! T-mobile has one of the slowest internet networks in North America which relies on old GRPS/EDGE technology, with no 3G is sight. New Google phone users will suffer from 5 min page load times and annoyingly laggy chats.

Google is also working with Sprint, which is the fastest in North America. Watch video of Adroid on HTC

Google Opposition

When Google announced Android, Linux developers got together and established LiMo Foundation. LiMo is an open source contender to Android and currently holds the lead over Google with 22 phones.

With its open source and proprietary rivals proliferating and shoring up their positions, the Linux-based LiMo Foundation is pulling out all the stops in its bid to establish itself as the preeminent mobile platform. According to a March IDC study, the Symbian platform led worldwide in 2007, with a 62.9 percent share of the market. Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows Mobile and Linux platforms were neck and neck, each controlling just over 11 percent. RIM’s (NASDAQ: RIMM) BlackBerry platform accounted for 9.8 percent of the total smartphone market, and Palm’s proprietary OS held a 1.8 percent share. According to a recent Canalsys research report, Apple’s iPhone accounts for 7 percent of smartphone platforms in use in 2008. In addition to a slew of rivals, LiMo will soon find itself facing another major competitor, the Google-backed Android project. – InternetNews

Google faces a lot of well entrenched and new competition on the smart phone market. It’s got a stronger brand over all contenders, so a good spin in the media can help it jump start the campaigns.