AT&T’s been extraordinarily coy about its Android plans, right up through our interview with Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega back in February — but rest assured, the carrier does plan to get in the game, and it might just beat a number of T-Mobile’s planned launches to market. Meet the HTC Lancaster, which kinda looks like a Magic when closed — but open, it takes on more of a traditional Touch Pro-ish scheme factor for a QWERTY slider than the G1 / Dream. It’s got triband EDGE and 850 / 1900MHz HSPA, AGPS, a 3 megapixel fixed-focus camera, Bluetooth 2.0, microSD expansion, and a “unique HTC social messaging user interface” that we’d assume takes cues from that Hero stuff we’ve been seeing recently. It’s lined up for a full six months of AT&T exclusivity and — according to our materials, anyway — has a target availability term of August 3, meaning we could see that pretty shortly. Unfortunately, there’s a note here that “Initial Lab Entry dates were based on Google Mobile Services (GMS) UI, AT&T standard UI has been requested, which puts schedule in question.” In other words, AT&T wants its fingerprints all by the interface, which risks pushing out the launch — and that’s a double whammy of suck. Follow the break for a larger shot of the phone!

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