As you know, Android continues to be a hot topic and everybody tries to squeeze every possible bit of detail on future projects, involving the operating system. So far, it is known that Samsung plans to deliver at least three phones running on Android by the end of the year. Fortunately, the leading manufacturer has spoken on the matter, informs Forbes. Dr. Won-Pyo Hong, vice president of product strategy at Samsung’s mobile division, has said that the first Android phone of the company is scheduled to launch in June, but probably outside the U.S. However, things won’t go so bad for U.S. handset worshippers, since the next two devices seem to be intended to hit American soil. The source presumes that the carriers to offer the phones may be no other but T-Mobile and Sprint, because so far they are the only carriers in the U.S. to have joined Google’s Open Handset Alliance.

The only bad news is that the two handsets designed for the American market will possibly hit the shelves no earlier than sometime in the second half of the year. Well, it could be worse, actually.

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For those Android lovers who were waiting for Vodafone to release the HTC Magic in the UK this month, there apparently is some bad news. According to Pocket-lint, an issue with a late hardware change has forced the manufacturer to push the launch back to May. While the carrier’s own web page still shows delivery scheduled for this month, a call to their sales center comes back with a release date of May 1st. HTC has also released a statement, saying, “We are delighted with the interest that the HTC Magic has received since its launch with Vodafone at Mobile World Congress 2009. We are confident that Vodafone’s customers will be delighted with the HTC Magic in spite of a short delay due to a last minute hardware change”. With the Magic on the sidelines for at least another month, could another Android powered device pull off an end run to be the second handset with the Google open source OS? Wonder what is happening to the Kogan Agora these days.

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T-Mobile has been trying to breathe life into the G1 with a new TV campaign. The carrier also released some statistics that you might find interesting. About 1 of every 2 G1 owners traded up to the first Android powered device from a featurephone (we would say dumbphones, but we do not want to insult innocent devices). 80% of G1 owners surf the web daily and over half are using Facebook and YouTube at least once a week with the same percentage connecting daily to Wi-Fi. Now we can admit that this information might be useful to T-Mobile when it comes to marketing future phones, but the one stat that is indicative of money coming into the carrier’s vault right now is that the average G1 customer has downloaded 40 apps from the Android Market and 4 out of 5 download apps at least once per week. What we want to know is if that 4 out of 5 are chewing Trident while shopping for apps.

You can watch the funny ads here.

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