T-Mobile USA will begin selling a new smartphone using Google Inc’s (GOOG.O) Android operating software in August, facing off against high-end devices such as Apple’s latest iPhone and the Palm Pre. Next Google Android device, called the myTouch. T-Mobile will announce the new smartphone Monday. It is the second smartphone the carrier has introduced that uses Google’s open-source mobile operating system, Android. T-Mobile introduced the world’s first Google Android phone, called the G1, last fall. And so far the company claims it has sold over 1 million devices.
The phone features a 3.2-in. touch-screen display and virtual keyboard, which can be used in portrait or landscape mode, depending on the applications, T-Mobile said. It includes a 3.2-megapixel camera and video capabilities for use with MMS.
By comparison, the first Android phone, the T-Mobile G1, has a swivel-out physical QWERTY keyboard. The myTouch comes with 512 Megabytes of internal memory and supports microSD for external storage. The device will ship with a 4GB microSD card, but customers can add more storage if they’d like.
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