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There certainly has been no shortage of Android news as of late.  There was the T-Mobile release of the myTouch 3G in August, the Hero coming to Sprint, the Motorola CLIQ, and the version 1.6 Donut upgrade.  Now Samsung is piling on more news with the announcement of yet another T-Mobile Android phone, the Samsung Behold II, which will put T-Mobile at four Android handsets by the time of its release.

The Behold II, as referenced by its name, is a follow up to the feature phone Samsung Behold, which did not feature Android.  Though it features a new OS, the Behold II actually features the same TouchWiz interface as the original.  TouchWiz features a 3D cube on the main screen with commonly used apps mapped to its faces, with YouTube, music, web, photos, video, and Amazon MP3 mapped at the start.  Aside from the OS, the phone offers a 3.2 inch touchscreen, a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus, and up to 16GB of storage space.

The Behold II looks like it could be the least desirable of the T-Mobile Android phones.  Given the strange UI, the newness of MotoBlur, the Behold II looks like its main goal is to attract feature phone users into the smartphone market.  There’s no mention of pricing and only a “before the holidays” release date from T-Mobile, so comparison to the other three Android phones on the carrier is mostly speculation.  It’s doubtful that anyone will switch to T-Mobile for the phone, unless they are huge fans of AMOLED screens, or really, really like 3D cubes.

Read [PC World]