Everyone has been waiting for the wave of Google Android-based phones and devices to arrive, and here they come.

This week, we’ll see the second Android phone, the G2, launch in Germany.

Now we’re getting news about a bunch of other Android devices hitting the market soon. The most exciting is the first Android netbook, called the Alpha 680 (pictured left). It will cost $250, and is made by China’s Skytone. It will run on an ARM chip, and weigh 1.5 pounds, or 25 percent less than the well-known first Eee 701 netbook, according to ComputerWorld, which first broke the news about the device. Its ARM11 chip — the same as the one used in the iPhone — supports YouTube video. The device’s arrival is significant because it ushers in a wave of potentially even more popular cheap computing devices that undercut the prices hardware makers — from Dell to HP — have long enjoyed. Many manufacturers have bemoaned the move away from more expensive laptops. Apple has simply refused to build a netbook, saying such devices are too crummy for Apple to think about building.

The Skytone device is being tested now, and final prototypes will ready by June, with manufacturers likely to introduce models to the market 1 to 2 months after that.

Meanwhile, there’s news of the third Android phone device to come to market:It’s the Samsung i7500 (pictured below left). It will launched in June in Germany on the carrier O2, which belongs to Telefonica.

VentureBeat reported earlier on the flurry of Android-based O2devices that are due to come to market.

Noteworthy is that the Samsung device uses a new emerging display technology called active-matrix OLED. The technology consumers significantly less power, all the while providing same video-rate performance as their passive-matrix OLED counterparts. Also, the biggest complaint about the first Android phone has been about its short battery life. One source of that drain is the touch screen, so this innovation should help.

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Android attack continues: Skytone Netbook to cost $250, Samsung i7500 confirmed