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Sprint Hero and Moment Won't Get Android 2.0 Until 1H 2010

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I think you're missing the point about Android...

paulc91316

Dec 11, 2009, 10:51 PM
I've owned just about every "smart-phone out on the market since the NeoPoint NP1000 from Sprint in the mid nineties. I’ve had T-mobile, Sprint, Verizon and AT&T. I always carry a GSM one and a CDMA one. I was like a walking commercial for converged devices.

I’m in the San Francisco market but my territory is North America. I travel 3 weeks of every month and can say there is a noticeable difference between coverage. I loved the 3GS as a device, but hated it as a phone.

My calls with customers are many times 30+ minutes long, AT&T would drop many, many of those. Short calls no problem. Data no problem either. Who’s doing to know if a packet has been dropped anyway?

I always carried either a Sprint or Verizon ...
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bluecoyote

Dec 11, 2009, 11:12 PM
I'm not addressing any network issues in this reply, but in some of the market's you've mentioned ironically enough VZW has a higher rate of dropped calls than AT&T.

Here's the very issue with Android- currently you've got a Droid, which is the most up-to-date Android handset on the market. Next year likely a new advanced handset will come out running Android 3.0 with even more new features and it will likely see a major marketing push behind it. Your Droid will be about the same place the T-Mobile G1 is right now- essentially obsolete hardware to developers and the user community, even though it's fairly new and still for sale. The G1 isn't ever going to even see Android 2.0.

By contrast, even the original iPhone runs OS 3.0 and did ...
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ibnturab

Dec 11, 2009, 11:46 PM
Well, I haven't played around with android 2 but I was under the assumption that it would be capable of running most older android apps. If not, then the android format could turn into a nice headache.
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