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December 19, 2008
Android fans are psyched about rumors that hit the Internet Friday that Samsung is releasing its own version of an Android phone sometime in the second quarter of 2009.

The touch-screen Android phone will reportedly be sold in the U.S. through T-Mobile and Sprint Nextel, according to Korean-based ETNews . The new phone is said to be similar to the Instinct and Omnia non-QWERTY phones.

"We are accelerating the development process for Google phone in order to meet the specific need of local carriers," a Samsung official told the news site. "We will be able to release Google phone in the second quarter of the next year in the U.S. market."

The Korean-based electronics giant reportedly set up a team of Linux and Java experts last year to develop the phone.

Google Map, G-Talk and Google Search are some of the features that are said to be available on the phone.

Just last week, 14 additional companies signed up as members of Google's Open Handset Alliance, a one-year-old organization of tech and phone companies working on open-source solutions for the Google Android system.

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