Korea IT News reported that Samsung will release an Android phone in the second quarter of 2009 in North America via Sprint and T-Mobile.
Samsung has added 30 Android experts, increasing developers on the project to 80. Sprint also has a development team.
The Samsung Google phone is expected be a full touchscreen phone like the Samsung Ominia and offer Google Map based location
information service, messenger G-Talk, G-mail and
Google Search.
An official of Samsung Electronics said, "We are accelerating the
development process for Google phone in order to meet the specific need
of local carriers. "