Yesterday, T-Mobile UK announced the T-Mobile Pulse, its third Google Android-powered handset and its first pay-as-you-go Android phone.
“We introduced the first Android handset, the T-Mobile G1 , to the UK back in October 2008, launched our second handset the G2 Touch earlier this year and now we’re opening up Android-based smartphones to a whole new type of mobile user with the first handset on pay-as-you-go. It really is a significant development in the Android story,” Nicola Shenton, T-Mobile’s acting head of handset and device marketing, said in a statement.
Confirmed specifications pretty much line up with what we had learned earlier. Manufactured by Huawei, the T-Mobile Pulse will be powered by a 528MHz Qualcomm processor and Google Android with a user interface called Canvas. It will come with GSM/GPRS/EDGE and HSPA connectivity, a 3.5-inch HVGA touchscreen display, GPS Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, a 3.2MP camera, a microSD card slot (with included 2GB card).
The T-Mobile Pulse will be available for £179.99 (about US$295) starting in October.