T-Mobile is expected to be the first carrier with a Google Android-based cell phone, with an announcement Sept. 23. And HTC says it will be the first handset maker to use the open-source mobile-phone operating system.

T-Mobile promised to unveil details of the first mobile phone based on Android at a Sept. 23 press conference in New York, according to The New York Times. T-Mobile could not immediately be reached for comment.

The Times reported the HTC phone

probably won’t be available until October, which is in line with Google’s forecast that devices running Android will be on the market by the fourth quarter. Pricing details are not yet available.

Still, there may not be the diversity of Android-powered mobile devices that year that observers expected. China Mobile had planned a third-quarter Android phone launch, but that will be stymied until at least the end of the year. Sprint Nextel may […]

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