Samsung is set to release three Android phones this year, two stateside and one abroad, as rivals gun for position in the smartphone market with rollouts planned for this year by Palm, HTC, BlackBerry maker Research in Motion, and, it's rumored, Apple.

Samsung still isn't releasing many details, though. A spokesperson told InternetNews.com that the company has not announced which carriers will be aligned with the U.S. Android phones and that pricing and names have not been determined.

The news comes at a time when HTC plans to release its own trio of Android devices in 2009, which includes the already much-anticipated Magic model coming in April for European carrier Vodafone. HTC was the first handset maker to release a smartphone, the T-Mobile G1, based on Android, Google's open-source mobile platform.

For now, it seems that Samsung doesn't necessarily have to hurry to compete, Brad Akyuz, senior analyst for mobile devices at Current Analysis told InternetNews.com.

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