As we reported in mid December, Samsung is expected to release an Android phone in the second quarter of the 2009 in North America via Sprint and T-Mobile.

"We are accelerating the development process for Google phone in order to meet the specific need of local carriers," a Samsung official said in a statement

Samsung added 30 experts, increasing developers on the project to 80. Sprint also has a development team.

The Samsung Google phone is expected be a full touchscreen phone like the Samsung Omnia and offer Google Map based location information services, messenger G-Talk, G-mail and Google Search.