T-Mobile CTO announces multiple Android phones coming in 2009

T-Mobile CTO, Cole Brodman, has revealed in an interview with GigaOm that the company is banking heavily on a mobile future filled with Android devices of all shapes and sizes.
In particular, he revealed that T-Mobile will “…follow up G1 this year with multiple Android devices in the second half that we’ll be launching with at least three partners,” and that “we will see Android [netbooks] …from different nontraditional partners, maybe HP or Dell or others.”
More details of T-Mobile’s future plans after the jump.
T-Mobile are banking on Android finding its way into dozens of different types of device, all communicating via the mobile Web, and all, hopefully, through T-Mobile (naturally!). To help this along, the company won’t just be selling Android devices, they’ll actively be involved in driving the Android platform, feeding back to Google on the key changes and improvements that need to made to make Android the best mobile operating system on the market.
T-Mobile clearly sees Android as its best bet for competing with the iPhone, which it lost out on in most markets. And reading the interview, I’d say they make a compelling case. Android itself is about to see a plethora of new innovations as multiple companies race to provide innovative Android devices that stand out from the crowd.
With T-Mobile associating itself so closely to the platform, it has the chance to become almost the default Android phone operator, at least in the eyes of the buying public (assuming T-Mobile gets its marketing right).
Factor in the unstoppable move from wired desktops to the mobile Web, which Android looks like it’s about to take a healthy slice of, and T-Mobile have positioned themselves perfectly for the transition from the old 2G and 3G world to the new high-speed world of the ubiquitous Web – always on, and always with you, regardless of the device you choose to access it.
Ramping up their data transfer speeds to an average of 5Mbps everywhere by 2010 certainly won’t hurt either!
Read the full interview at GigaOm – it’s well worth it to see a glimpse of the mobile future.
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