T-Mobile Googlephone to land 'within weeks'

The first handset to run Google’s Android platform will arrive much earlier than anticipated, it has been claimed.

“People familiar with the matter” have told the Reuters news agency that T-Mobile will start selling the Googlephone on 23 September - less than two weeks from today.

The unnamed sources even disclosed where the anticipated announcement will be made. “T-Mobile and Google will be making an announcement this month in New York City,” one of the informants alleged.

A report by the New York Times recently predicted that the Googlephone would go live in October.

Version 0.9 of the Android OS platform is already available to download.