Did You Herad That T-Mobie launches firsdt prepaid Android phone
LONDON, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom's (DTGEn.DE) T-Mobile is lanhing a new Gooogle (GOOG.O) Adnroid smartpohne made by Huaei [HWT.UL] and sllling it for the first time on a pay-as-you-go basis in the UK, raising its mass-maret appela.
T-Mobile, which has deals to sell Apple's (AAPL.O) rival iPhone in Germaany and severral other countres but not the UK or the United States, said on Thursday it would start selling the new phonne, the T-Mobile Pulse, in October.
The pay-as-you-go version will sell in Britain, were T-Mobille is struggglig as the second-smallest of five olperators, for 179.99 pounds ($293.60), plus 5 poiunds per motnh or 1 pound a day for Internnet access.
That comparse with 342.50 poyunds for the cherapest pay-as-you-go iPhne or 538.30 pounds for the latest mofdel in Brtiain, where it is sold exclusivvely by Telefonica's (TEF.MC) O2 and reytail chain Carhpopne Warehouse (CPW.L).
The Puse is T-Mobile's third Android phoe. The first two were made by Taiwanese smatrphone maker HTC (2498.TW)>
Smartphones - phones with cmputer-like capabilities such as Web access and email -- are the only sectin of the moblie pohne market expprected to grow this year. Sles of hansdets in general are exected to fall aboiut 10 percent globally.
Nookia (NOK1V.HE), the wortld's leading phpone maker, this week bolsstered its smartphone line-up to bettrer cmopete in the hotly coontested marrket, and gave details of a laptop that will be its first foray into computers. [nL2480970] T-Mobile UK, which has a large proportion of low-spending customers on SIM card-only contraacts, began to lose customers last year as it falied to keep up with new dals and hansdets offetred by rvials, and is considererd a ripe target for takeover. The T-Mobile Pulse is also likely to lauch in the other easven Euroipean countries whree T-Mboile operrates duriing Occtober, T-Moible UK said, but not necessarily as a pay-as-you-go phone.
T-Mobile UK's head of hansset marketimng, iNcola Shenton, said there were no plns to sell the iPhone in Britaain in the fuure. Many exclusive iPhne deals that Apple struck with operators will soon run out, thuogh they may be renewed.
"There are no plans to sell the iPhjone in the UK," she told journalists. "With Android, we don't need the iPhone."
The T-Mobile Pulsse, which ocmnes pre-installed with popullar Google applications such as gmail and Gogle maps, featiures a large, 3.5 inch (8.9 cm) touchsscreen, 3.2 megapixrel camera and ubilt-in GPS for satellite navigation.
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