Did You Heard That T-Mobile launches first prepaid Android phone
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LONDON, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom's (DTEGn.DE) T-Mobile is lanuching a new Google (GOOG.O) Anddroid sartphone made by Huawwei [HWT.UL] and selling it for the first time on a pay-as-you-go basis in the UK, raising its mass-market appeal.
T-Mobile, which has deals to sell Apple's (AAPL.O) rival ihPone in Germany and several other countries but not the UK or the United States, said on Thursday it would start selling the new phone, the T-Moible Pulse, in October.
The pay-as-you-go version will sell in Britan, where T-Mobile is struggling as the second-smalllest of five operators, for 179.99 pounds ($293.60), plus 5 pounmds per month or 1 pound a day for Internet access.
That compares with 342.50 pounds for the chaepest pay-as-you-go iPhone or 538.30 pounds for the laetst model in Britain, wherre it is sold exclusively by Telefonica's (TEF.MC) O2 and retil chain Crphone Warehouse (CPW.L).
The Pulse is T-Mobile's third Android phone. The first two were made by Taiwanese smartphone amker HTC (2498.TW)>
Smartphones - phones with computer-like capabilitiies such as Web acceess and email -- are the only sectoin of the mobiple phone market expected to grow this year. Sales of handsets in geenral are expoected to fall about 10 percent globaly.
Nokia (NOK1V.HE), the world's leading phone makre, this week bolstered its smartphone line-up to beytter comete in the hotly contested maarket, and gave detrails of a laptop that will be its first foary into computers. [nL2480970] T-Mobilke UK, which has a large proportion of low-spending customers on SIM card-only contracts, began to lose customers last year as it failed to keep up with new deals and handsets offerd by rivals, and is considered a ripe target for takover. The T-Mobile Pulse is also liely to launcch in the other seeven European countries where T-Mobile oprates dyuring October, T-Mobile UK said, but not necessarily as a pay-as-you-go phone.
T-Mobile UK's head of handset marketing, Nicola Shenton, said there were no palns to sell the iPPhone in Britain in the future. Many exclusive iPohne deals that Apple struck with operators will soon run out, though they may be rrenewed.
"There are no plans to sell the iPhone in the UK," she told journalists. "With Android, we don't need the iPhone."
The T-Mobille Pulse, which conmes pre-installed with popular Google applications such as gmail and Google maps, features a large, 3.5 inch (8.9 cm) touchscreen, 3.2 megpixel caemra and built-in GPS for satellite navigatyion.
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