CHARLOTTE, N.C. — US Airways is adding nonstop flights between Charlotte and Hawai'i, providing travelers in the Carolinas a quick way to escape to the Islands.

US Airways Group Inc. said yesterday that daily, year-round service to Honolulu will begin Dec. 17. It will be the only direct flight from Charlotte to Hawai'i.

Charlotte is the largest hub for Tempe, Ariz.-based US Airways. The airline previously has announced plans to add direct flights from Charlotte to Rio de Janeiro.

Tickets to Hawai'i are available now, with roundtrip tickets on the company's Web site selling for $928 yesterday.

T-MOBILE SETS MYTOUCH DEBUT DATE

NEW YORK — T-Mobile USA's follow-up to the first "Google phone" will go on sale in early August, the carrier is set to announce today.

The "T-Mobile myTouch 3G with Google" will be a touch-screen phone and will lack the physical keyboard of the T-Mobile G1, the first phone that used Google Inc.'s Android software. The G1 went on sale in October. T-Mobile has sold more than 1 million of the phones.

Google is giving away the software, because the company's goal is to make its Android phone platform the basis for phones across the industry, stimulating the use of its Web services on mobile devices.

Google is getting some traction. Verizon Wireless has said it will bring out an Android phone "in the near future." Motorola Corp. is betting big on Android, and aims to have its first products out late this year.