According to a Korean news report, Sprint and T-Mobile will release at least one Samsung model running Google’s Android OS in the US next year. While, currently, the only Android phone running Google’s platform is T-Mobile’s G1, Sprint would hope the new Android device to reverse the negative trend in its subscribers.

In fact, a big roll-out of European models is expected at the Mobile World Congress trade show in February, and also at the CTIA show in April.

The new devices by Sprint and T-Mobile, like all other Android-based devices, will offer mobile access to many of Google’s services, including Gmail and its mapping, and instant message services.

The tablet-shaped smartphones will have prominent touchscreens, but will be without built-in keyboards. These models will be similar in design to the existing Instinct for Sprint and their Behold phone for T-Mobile - significantly different from the inside, but same from the outside.

Reports from etnews.co.kr have an unnamed Samsung executive saying, “We are accelerating the development process for Google phone in order to meet the specific need of local carriers. We will be able to release Google phone in the second quarter of the next year in the US market.”