CONFIRMED: T-Mobile launching the Android-powered T-Mobile G1 in the UK this November

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Google, HTC and T-Mobile have all just pulled the covers off the T-Mobile G1 – the official name of the long-awaited “Google Phone.”

The handset features the “Android Market” – its equivalent to Apple’s App Store – and it does indeed use the Amazon MP3 shopping service as rumoured this very morning. As for release dates – the US gets it on October 22, the UK gets it in “early November,” while the rest of Europe must wait until early 2009…

People who know people say T-Mobile's revealing its Android phone plans on September 23

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The sort of “insiders” who can’t be named or they’ll get sacked reckon that Google and T-Mobile are very, very near to announcing official facts regarding the retail arrival of a Google Android mobile.

The two companies are planning a revelation for this month, with the same undercover sources hinting that a September 23 launch date announcement is definitely possible. September 23 is, at the time of writing, 12.5 days away…

Big-screened HTC "G1" could be first Android phone, exclusively on T-Mobile in the US

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Building on speculation a couple of weeks ago, it seems that an Android mobile phone could be on sale in the States as soon as October, if rumours based on people with inside knowledge of Google and HTC are to be believed.

In a flurry of naming creativity, HTC is expected to launch its G1 mobile phone, sporting a decent five-by-three inch touchscreen, real slide-out QWERTY keyboard, three megapixel camera, 3G, and of course the Android operating system…

BlackBerry Bold coming in September: T-Mobile stakes first claim

blackberry-9000-bold-small.jpgWe’ve had to wait all summer, but at last we’re in sight of the BlackBerry Bold.

T-Mobile claims it will be the first UK operator to offer the handset, offering decent and improving national 3G support, thanks to a radio access network sharing deal the company has done with 3 UK.

The Bold includes integrated GPS, Microsoft Office document editing, expandable memory, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and two megapixel camera (see full specifications and a comparison with the iPhone 3G.)…

HTC Google Android handset on course for the end of the year – with T-Mobile?

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Ok, so still no closer to a release date for the first Google Android handsets but HTC reckon they’ll have them out by the end of the year. Look, just consider yourselves lucky that some of last month’s rumours weren’t true.

According to HTC, the blank, unbranded phones will be heading out to the ODM – ‘original design manufacturer’ to you and I – by Q4…