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"AT&amp;amp;T's been extraordinarily coy about its Android plans, right up through our interview with Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega back in February -- but rest assured, the carrier does plan to get in the game, and it might just beat a number of T-Mobile's planned launches to market. Meet the HTC Lancaster, which kinda looks like a Magic when closed -- but open, it takes on more of a traditional Touch Pro-ish form factor for a QWERTY slider than the G1 / Dream. It's got triband EDGE and 850 / 1900MHz HSPA, AGPS, a 3 megapixel fixed-focus camera, Bluetooth 2.0, microSD expansion, and a \"unique HTC social messaging user interface\" that we'd assume takes cues from that Hero stuff we've been seeing recently. It's lined up for a full six months of AT&amp;amp;T exclusivity and -- according to our materials, anyway -- has a target availability date of August 3, meaning we could see this pretty shortly. Unfortunately, there's a note here that \"Initial Lab Entry dates were based on Google Mobile Services (GMS) UI, AT&amp;amp;T standard UI has been requested, which puts schedule in question.\" In other words, AT&amp;amp;T wants its fingerprints all over the interface, which risks pushing out the launch -- and that's a double whammy of suck. Follow the break for a larger shot of the phone!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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