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The high-end phone, which is based on Google's Android software, is expected to challenge Apple's iPhone as well as other smartphones.

Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile USA will be the first carrier to offer a mobile phone based on Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android software, the New York Times reported, citing people briefed on the company's plans. The high-end phone, which will be made by the world's top smartphone maker High Tech Computer Corp., is expected to challenge Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone as well as other smartphones that run software from Palm (NASDAQ: PALM), Research in Motion, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Nokia. The phone is expected to go on sale in the U.S. before Christmas and perhaps as early as October, the paper said. Neither Google nor T-Mobile immediately returned calls seeking comment. RELATED ARTICLES RIM Charges Ahead With Growth Abroad Google Unit Sale Sidesteps Controversy Verisign Aims to Deflate 'Pump and Dump' Scams For more stories on this topic: Last November, Google introduced its highly anticipated Android software for designing mobile phone devices, in a move it promised could help the mobile phone industry make the Internet work as smoothly on phones as it does on computers. In addition to T-Mobile, Android counts dozens of partners from across the mobile... [ Read more on www.internetnews.com ]

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