DoCoMo’s Android handset to be 20% cheaper than other smartphones

Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM) has elaborated on the Android handset due to drop in 2009 announced in October. South Korean service provider, KTF, will also be carrying the device, purportedly for 20% less than the usual cost of smartphones due to savings from using Google (NSDQ: GOOG)’s free operating system. We had already seen what doors are opened by a free OS through basement entrepreneurs like Australia-based Kogan, but as seen by these savings, larger operators are in a good position to slash prices on their phones and rope in a wider audience.

UPDATE: KTF is denying any collaboration with DoCoMo on this particular project.

[via Reuters]