US Android handsets to cost $199

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The first smartphones to use Google’s Android phone operating system will cost $199 (£110) when they debut in the US later this month.

According to a report published in US financial newspaper The Wall Street Journal, the first handset will feature a slide-out keypad, is being manufactured by HTC. Also in line with other reports on the matter, the phone will be sold by T-Mobile USA, which plans to unveil the device at an event in New York on 23 September.

The pricing is in line with the highest retail cost of Apple’s iPhone in the US, which is now considered to be the benchmark for contract smartphone pricing.

T-Mobile USA is expected to release new data service plans similar to the Web’n’Walk service offered by T-Mobile UK.

Google, HTC and T-Mobile USA declined comment on the pricing for the phone.

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