The New York Times is reporting that internal documents at T-Mobile reveal plans for at least two connected home devices next year that will use Google's Android mobile operating system used in its G1 and forthcoming G2 phones. One is a digital home phone solution akin to the recently released Verizon Hub and iriver's WAVE HOME device, the other a tablet device with a 7-inch touchscreen. Assuming the news has legs, it marks an aggressive push on the part of T-Mobile to throw its hat into the ring on developing devices in the middle layer between computer and cell phone, with Linux-based Android as the flexible open operating system that can accomodate a wide range of control schemes and device sizes.

T-Mobile joins a growing number of device makers catering to a new market for touchscreen computing devices seeking to fill that gap, including HP and Asus exploring Android-based netbooks and Dell and Acer rumoured to be looking at mobile internet devices based on the Google mobile OS.

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