With all of the excitement surrounding the Motorola Droid — which comes to Verizon on Friday — T-Mobile wants to remind customers that they are also dedicated to the Android platform.

At the Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco, T-Mobile’s Cole Brodman gave a keynote highlighting the company’s history with the platform and plans for the future (what, you thought he was going to talk about the network outages from yesterday?).

T-Mobile was the first carrier to launch an Android-based device (the G1) in October of 2008. The company now offers three Android phones (the G1, the myTouch 3G and the Motorola CLIQ), with a fourth, the Samsung Behold II coming soon.

Additionally, T-Mobile is planning on launching a T-Mobile Channel in the Android Market that will be live by Thanksgiving. T-Mobile customers will be able to purchase apps using carrier billing, which might make buying them easier and more streamlined. T-Mobile also has a developer program available at developer.tmobile.com that lets developers “pitch” Android apps for possible featured placement on T-Mobile’s site or the upcoming T-Mobile Channel.

What do you think of T-Mobile’s commitment to Android? Let us know!

Tags: android, Android Market, motorola cliq, T-Mobile