T-Mobile officially announced the launch of the first smartphone equipped with Google’s Android software. It will take place in a press conference in New York on Sep 23rd. The smartphone which is anticipated to be the rival of apple iphone will be available to the users in the end of Oct.

The phone named G1 is manufactured by HTC. It has different good features like a huge 5 x 3 display screen, a QWERTY keyboard exposed through a sidekick style sliding display a BlackBerry-like trackball, 3G data access, GPS and Wi-Fi.

The handset will be sold for a low price of $150.The Android Market reportedly will be entirely open and any developer can upload applications for people to use. It remains to be seen whether this smartphone can live-up to the hype.