NEW YORK ?Sept. 23, 2008 ?T-Mobile today announced the international launch of the world?s first Android?powered mobile phone in partnership with Google. Available soon only for T-Mobile customers spanning two continents, the T-Mobile G1 combines full touch-screen functionality and a QWERTY keyboard with a mobile Web experience that includes the popular Google products that millions have enjoyed on the desktop, including Google Maps Street View? Gmail? YouTube?BR>and others.

"We are proud that T-Mobile is the first operator in the world to launch an Android-powered mobile device," said Christopher Schl?ffer, group product and innovation officer of Deutsche Telekom. "Since 2005, Google has been an established partner in T-Mobile?s groundbreaking approach to bringing the open mobile Internet to the mass market. With the T-Mobile G1, we are continuing our strong tradition of being pioneers in the world of the open Internet."