On Friday, an announcement was made by Singapore Telecommunications under which it confirmed that it will commence selling the HTC Dream or Google mobile phone in Singapore from 21st February. This will make Singapore the second market in Asia to witness their launch.

Since the HTC phone comes with preloaded software such as Google Web Search, Gmail and Google Calendar, it is more commonly known as Google phone. Via this new phone, SingTel will also provide subscribers with video-on-demand content.

The Google phone would be sold for nearly US $24.72 to customers who concur to take up the most expensive subscription package of Singapore $95 a month by SingTel, which owns Australia's Optus as well as stakes in several regional mobile phone operators.

Earlier this month, the phone was launched in Australia by SingTel.