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T-Mobile myTouch 3G hits stores today

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myTouch 3G, T-Mobile’s second Android-powered phone has been officially launched today. The device will be available for $199.99 and are available in three colours, black, merlot and white. This device comes without a hardware keyboard, and appears much slimmer than T-Mobile G1, the company’s first Android-powered device.

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This device sports a 3.2″ QVGA screen, a 3.2 MP camera, 528 MHz Qualcomm processor, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, WiFi and GPS. Click here to know more about the device.

[via AndroidCentral]

Android devices released in Taiwan today

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HTC Dream and HTC Magic, the two Android powered mobile phones have been officially launched in Taiwan today.

Here are a few pictures of the official release :

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It remains to see how well these two devices are able to capture the Taiwanese market. It would be interesting to see how well the Magic is accepted in the Asian market, as Magic has a capacitive screen and there is no hardware keyboard to input the text. And, it is difficult to type in Asian characters (Chinese, Taiwanese, etc.) on the capacitive screen. Perhaps, that’s the major reason that the devices with resistive screen are still ruling the Asian market.

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Vodofone to release second Android phone in Europe

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Vodafone is all set to release HTC MAGIC, the second major Android phone next month. It will be first released in Germany (May 5) followed by France, the United Kingdom, Austria, Spain and Italy.

The Magic was annouced at MWC, 2009 in Barcelona. The Magic uses SIP (soft input panel) for inputing text and dumps the hardware keyboard.

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China Mobile is going to release Magic in near future in Chinese market.

The Android is on fire right now as the T-Mobile G1’s sales crossed 1 million in just 6 months!