On Monday T-Mobile announced that the first follow up to their G1 "Google Phone" will go on sale in early August. Dubbed the "myTouch 3G", it will be a touch-screen phone and will lack the physical keyboard of the T-Mobile G1, which was the first phone that used Google's Android software.

It's clear that T-Mobile is hoping to have created a major competitor to the Apple iPhone. Even the name of their new Google phone is reminiscent of a similar Apple product - iTouch vs. myTouch - and the lack of a physical keyboard with this model brings them all that much closer to having something pretty similar to the iPhone.

The myTouch, which was created by HTC, looks a lot like an iPhone and even has many of the same features. It will be available for $199 with a two-year contract, and will ship with software that allows it to connect to corporate e-mail servers. T-Mobile believes that the myTouch will appeal to a much wider audience than the G1.

Current G1 owners will likely not be eligible for the $199 subsidized price on the myTouch, simply because the G1 was released so recently and T-Mobile has yet to recoup the costs.