http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/ Engadget Comments for Samsung, LG said to be releasing Android phones in Q3 '09 "at the earliest" http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/Sep 29th 2008 4:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/Sep 29th 2008 4:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/
Also, Windows Mobile 7 will be out by then.... with Tegra running the WM7 phones, it will be hard for people to look at any other OSes.]]>Sep 29th 2008 5:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/Sep 29th 2008 4:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/Sep 29th 2008 4:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/Sep 29th 2008 4:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/Well do you really multitask or do you single task + phone? Why not separate the phone portion to a small virtualized OS/kernel with it's own dedicated (low power) processor. This frees up resources for computing tasks while adding reliability to the phone features.]]>Sep 30th 2008 12:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/Sep 29th 2008 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/Sep 29th 2008 11:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/Sep 30th 2008 10:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/Sep 29th 2008 4:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/Sep 29th 2008 4:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/Sep 29th 2008 5:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/Sep 29th 2008 4:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/
If it's anything like Rogers in Canada, this is probably because the provider is too afraid of losing total, overbearing control of the phones on their networks.]]>Sep 29th 2008 4:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/
I'm seriously hoping Telus and/or Bell do the smart thing and pick up a Android phone to compete.]]>Nov 25th 2008 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/Sep 29th 2008 5:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/Sep 29th 2008 7:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/
People that have used HTC's first touch based WinMo interfaced and compared it to the Touch Diamond, PRO, and HD versions see a massive improvement. The guys over XDA have also done some great things with third party touch interfaces.

Android gives a backbone to potentially powerful little devices.

Also, Android, although open source, could be made custom for various phones. Operators could cripple android to do what they want. That's what the whole aspect about business models is in the article. Rogers could work on Android to make an OS that does make the device limited.

Having Android doesn't equal having complete freedom. Android could be made like the iPhone where it's not completely open.

Hopefully Android is left like WinMo where it is completely customizable. I agree the WinMo's default interface is crappy, but the ability to completely overhaul and customize it on your own makes the OS great. You can make it look like an iPhone if you want, you can make it look like the WM7 coming out soon. You can make what you want. Most of the time with no charge at all. Thank you open source development community for that one. Operators didn't argue to lock WinMo because the potential payout for a phone that business can easily integrate for outweighed having a limited OS.

The open source development community will give the same freedom for Android as long as operator don't cripple them. The only issue with Android is that the built in market for it is not as big as WinMo, iPhone, or Blackberry. Sure, developers and geeks alike will push it, but this is a small number compared to total users. How many businesses will dump WinMo or Blackberry?

My prediction is that Android will lay low for a bit and mature. I think it will move in the direction to where you will have phones with non-touch Android versions that don't even make reference to Android. I see Android potentially replacing carrier and phone manufacturer specific OS's first. Potentially a Samsung Instinct II and LG Dare II will utilize Android. HTC as we see has already did it's first take. It would be cool if you can chose a phone, then chose the OS. "I want and HTC Touch HD and Android (or WinMO)!" Talk about freedom of choice....
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Damn.]]>Sep 29th 2008 5:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/
if these companies don't like phat profitz, that's fine with me, but considering all the excitement about T-mobile's upcoming release, if i were a CEO it would make sense to me to at least offer an introductory phone, rather than jumping in during the middle game (viz. sony, lenovo, LG on netbooks).]]>Sep 29th 2008 6:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/Sep 29th 2008 6:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/Sep 29th 2008 8:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/Sep 29th 2008 9:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/Sep 29th 2008 11:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/Sep 30th 2008 12:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/samsung-lg-said-to-be-releasing-android-phones-in-q3-09-at-th/Sep 30th 2008 2:32AM