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Sprint CEO Confirms Android Handset by Year's End

Jul 27, 2009, 11:08 AM by Eric M. Zeman

Speaking at an event last week, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse made some remarks concerning the Android platform. He indicated that the company was glad it waited for the Android platform to mature a bit before choosing to launch an Android device. "The reviews say now [Android is] ready for prime time. It wasn't when it first came out." Hesse said that Sprint will launch an Android-based device by the end of 2009.

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JeffdaBeat

Jul 27, 2009, 12:04 PM

About time...

I always thought it wasn't the smartest idea for the CEO of Sprint to say that Andriod wasn't quite good enough for Sprint Nextel. I am not a Sprint basher at all, but when your company needs an innovative OS, it's not good to publically diss another company that is doing quite well for itself.

But imagine how powerful it will be on Sprint's network...should be interesting.

PEZ

I have a G1, but I a, sure glad Anddroid will be coming to other providers - with it being a free OS, and relitive hardware, it should bring prices down a lot. Especially when Vzm gets on the bandwagon.

Though, I think this was more about, CDMA su...
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HawkeyeOC

JeffdaBeat said:
I always thought it wasn't the smartest idea for the CEO of Sprint to say that Andriod wasn't quite good enough for Sprint Nextel. I am not a Sprint basher at all, but when your company needs an innovative OS, it's

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pingpong

Totally agreed that it wasn't smart of Sprint's CEO to be dissing another company. I would have assumed that Sprint would be the last company to be talking bad about Android considering how downhill their company is going at this point.

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