Google announces Long Awaited “GPhone” [ Cost $199 ]

The well-known global Internet-focused company, Google has announced its long awaited “Google Phone” (also known as Gphone). This is first mobile phone to use Google Inc’s Android mobile operating software and will cost $199.

The phone, which features a slide-out keypad, is being manufactured by HTC Corp and will be sold by Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile USA unit, is set to be launched on the 23rd of September, 2008.

“It will open the mobile phone to do things that people now do on their PCs,” said Todd Greenwald, a financial analyst with Nollenberger Capital Partners in San Francisco.
Source: First Google Android phone to cost $199