Among the latest developments: Samsung reportedly promises an Android handset for Q2, Google reveals new Android features—including video recording and cut-and-paste—and rumors are already swirling of a T-Mobile G2.

Samsung Android phone set for Q209?
That's the word from CNET, which found a report on Korea IR News claiming that the handset will land in the respective lineups of Sprint and T-Mobile sometime next spring. The story goes on to say that we're talking a "full touch-screen phone" with "the Google Map-based location information service, messenger G-Talk, the G-mail application and Google Search"—in other words, essentially the same features as on the existing T-Mobile G1. No official word from Samsung U.S.A. yet, nor any details on additional features or what the phone might look like.

Video recording, cut-and-paste coming to Android
Here's a post that's a little more concrete: Details from Google (via Phone Scoop) on upcoming features for the Android mobile platform—including some choice features still unavailable on the iPhone. Among them: Video capture, support for stereo Bluetooth headsets., and two key features for the Android Web browser—text search and cut-and-paste (press and hold the Shift key and touch to selects and copies text, then press and hold Shift again and click the trackball to paste). The changes are detailed on Google's Android site for developers; still no word on when the update will be rolled out to consumers.

T-Mobile G2 set for January?
Take the following report from Cell Phone Signal with a hefty grain of salt. The site claims that "a new T-Mobile Andrpod device is coming to town" with all the standard G1 features, minus the slide-out QWERTY keypad but plus VGA and 5MP cameras (for video calling), stereo Bluetooth, video recording, PC syncing (the G1 only syncs over the air), and "Enterprise-capable" features (I'm guessing that means Exchange compatibility, but who knows). And here's the capper: Cell Phone Signal says the G2 will bow on January 26, barely three months after the debut of the G1.

Naturally, the story is drawing a lot of attention—not to mention skepticism. The Boy Genius Report has its own tipster who, while confirming some of Cell Phone Signal's details, says the January release date is "completely wrong": think April, says the site (which would coincide with the spring 2009 edition of CTIA Wireless). VentureBeat doubts that T-Mobile would "risk enraging the million or so people who bought the G1 … by launching an updating version" just a few months later—and I tend to agree. My prediction (made with no insider knowledge, mind you): We'll see the Samsung Android phone at CTIA in April, but not the G2—which won't take the stage until September 2009.