The HTC Dream will make its way into the Asian market through Singapore Telecommunications. SingTel, Asia’s leading telecommunications company confirmed the fact that it will sell the Google mobile phone.

The HTC Dream, the first mobile phone that runs on Google-developed Android platform, will hit the shelves on February 21. Asia would be the second market of the HTC Dream, who is currently in stores in the United States where is marketed as the G1 by T-Mobile.

The Dream is made by Taiwan-based phone maker HTC, but it’s commonly known as the Google phone because it features many Google software applications such as Google Web Search, Gmail, Google Maps and Google Calendar.

The price of the HTC Dream in Asia will be of S$38 ($24.72) for customers who take the most expensive subscription package of S$95 a month. The price varies depending on the contract with the mobile phone operator.

SingTel, owner of Australia's Optus and also minority owner of stakes in several regional mobile phone operators, already launched the HTC Dream in Australia this month.

Starting tomorrow, the HTC Dream will be the first phone in Asia to run on internet search provider Google's Android operating system. This move is another step in SingTel’s aggressive strategy on the smartphone segment of the mobile phone market.

The company’s CEO, Yuen Kuan Moon, said he believes there is a segment in the market that would prefer a full QWERTY keyboard as opposed to going full touch immediately and that is the segment on which SingTel will focus.

“This is the reason why we want to bring in the Dream phone," Mr. Yuen Kuan Moon added.