Google Phone Details Coming Soon

On Tuesday morning, T-Mobile and Google(GOOG) officials will be in New York to tell the journalists and analysts all about the upcoming release of what has been touted as the first possible Apple(AAPL) iPhone killer: the Google/Gphone. It will be the first released device that runs on the open-source, Android smartphone operating system.

We're not sure of its exact name -- or all of the features that will be included. But according to many of the bloggers who think they know (and also the "leaks" in and around the industry), we think the phone, made by HTC, will have some sort of hardware as well as an on-screen keyboard, will connect to many Google services (Gmail, calendar, Google maps with GPS, Google office suite, and a Google "app" store), will have Bluetooth and Wi-Fi and will connect to T-Mobile's brand-spanking new 3G network.

Google Phone for $150?

Earlier Thursday, T-Mobile announced that by the middle of next month, it will have its 3G service up and running in 21 U.S. cities: Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Dallas, Houston, Las Vegas, Miami, Minneapolis, New York (including northern New Jersey and Long Island), Phoenix, Portland, San Antonio and San Diego. The company plans to expand its 3G service by mid-October to Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, Orlando, Philadelphia, Sacramento, San Francisco and Seattle as well as six additional markets -- Birmingham, Denver, Detroit, Kansas City, Memphis and Tampa -- before the end of the year. T-Mobile says those 27 cities represent more than two-thirds of all its data customers.