The T-Mobile MyTouch smart phone, the second phone to use Google’s Android operating system, goes on sale today, priced at $200 with a 2-year contract.

In his first impressions of the new phone, colleague Mike Gikas found the MyTouch to be promising in some ways, even if it didn’t measure up to the best smart phones in all respects. Among the phone’s calling cards are a 3.2-in. touchscreen display. It’s the same size as the one on its predecessor the G1, the first “Google phone,” and it includes a virtual keyboard, replacing the slide-out QWERTY keyboard of the G1. The phone also runs multiple applications simultaneously, as with the Palm Pre and phones that use the Windows Mobile OS. A predictive-text feature shows you several possible word choices at the bottom of the screen as you type.

Further information on the MyTouch 3G is available to subscribers on the phone’s model page in our Ratings. We’ll buy the phone today and continue our testing of it. We expect to post final test results on the MyTouch to our smart-phone Ratings (available to subscribers) later in the month.

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