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The first Android handset from the Chinese manufacturer Huawei was finally revealed, was a powered U8230 smartphone allows users to switch between full and half QWERTY keyboards and to navigate programs easily via a 3.5-inch LCD touch screen. Huawei’s U8230 uses the Google Chrome Internet browser which supports a variety of Google applications such as Google Map, Google Search and Google Talk. It is also fitted with a battery which has a capacity of 1500 mAH – the longest battery capacity among Android-powered handsets currently available.

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T-Mobile are big on the Android platform, but has the HTC Magic moving to Vodafone forced their hand in looking for other manufacturers to cosy up with? A T-Mobile spokesperson has come up with the following loaded statement:

“We are looking to launch multiple Android-based devices in the second half of this year with three partners…[and we will] see Android find its way down into feature phones on the low end.”

Open source means that the price of an operating system is no longer a barrier to entry, hence Android for everyone! But who are the three hookups? HTC and Samsung are obvious, but the third? Huawei? Motorola?

Gadget Stylist has a very interesting article on that very matter, with Motorola’s full-on adoption of the platform revealing their long term gameplan…or should we say life line?

Huawei has announced that they will release T-Mobile’s second Android phone.

The low-cost device will have a five-megapixel camera, a 3mm headphone jack, 3G and Wi-Fi and will indeed be the handset shown off (but not working) by the Chinese manufacturer at Mobile World Congress.

A Huawei spokeswoman said: ‘I can confirm that Huawei will be releasing the third Google phone on T-Mobile this year.’

T-Mobile managed to secure the first Google phone, the ‘G1′ in October of 2008, but the HTC Magic was announced as a Vodafone UK exclusive at the very same MWC in February.

They might have missed out on the ‘G2′ on this side of the globe, but rumours still persist that the Magic could still belong to T-Mo on the other side of the Atlantic.

The Huawei device is certainly the best of the phalanx of Android devices on the way in the second half of 2009, and seems set for a collision course with (as well as a passing resemblance to) the iPhone this Summer…

Android vs. iPhone, round 2!