NEW YORK (Reuters)
- The first mobile phone to use Google Inc's Android mobile operating
software will cost $199, the Wall Street Journal reported on its
website on Wednesday.
The phone, which features a slide-out keypad, is being manufactured
by Taiwan's HTC Corp and will be sold by Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile
USA unit, which plans to unveil the device at an event in New York on
September 23.
AT&T Inc, the only U.S. operator selling Apple Inc's iPhone, set
the price of the latest version at $199 in July, setting a benchmark
for smartphones that can surf the Web, manage email and other
multimedia features.
The Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, said T-Mobile
USA plans to release new data service plans in conjunction with the
Google phone that will be "aggressively priced."
Google, HTC and T-Mobile USA declined comment on the pricing for the phone.
(Reporting by Tiffany Wu and Sinead Carew in New York, Eric Auchard and Anupreeta Das in San Francisco; Editing by Anil D'Silva)
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