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Google to sell first branded phone for $199: report

-- Google Inc.'s much-awaited mobile device based on the company's "Android" software is expected to sell for $199, a published report said Wednesday.
Departing from the practice of listing only the manufacturer and wireless carrier, the device will also showcase the Google brand, The Wall Street Journal said in its online edition, citing unnamed sources.
The Google phone is expected to be introduced on Sept. 23, the Journal said.
The Google phone will be manufactured by Taiwan's HTC Group and will require service with T-Mobile USA, a unit of Deutsche Telekom.
The report said T-Mobile plans to introduce data plans that would make the phone "aggressively priced." Google will contribute resources to develop the phone as a way of helping T-Mobile reduce its costs, the report said.

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