http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/ Engadget Comments for Samsung's Android phone hitting Sprint and T-Mobile by June 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/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/Dec 19th 2008 5:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/]]>Dec 19th 2008 5:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/Dec 19th 2008 5:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/ knowing.

I love the new comment editing system, very useful.]]>Dec 19th 2008 5:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/Dec 19th 2008 6:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/Dec 19th 2008 5:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/Dec 19th 2008 6:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/Dec 19th 2008 6:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/Dec 19th 2008 6:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/Dec 19th 2008 7:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/Dec 19th 2008 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/Dec 19th 2008 11:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/Dec 19th 2008 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/Dec 19th 2008 6:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/Dec 19th 2008 6:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/
"Earlier this year, Verizon picked..."

I wish we could edit comments on this thing. :(]]>Dec 19th 2008 6:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/Dec 19th 2008 6:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/
Besides, I like the nice screen on my Touch Pro, and the sliding QWERTY keyboard. I've used that feature way more than the on-screen touch keyboard.

If only HTC would bring the Touch HD to the US, I would switch to whatever carrier got it first. I would imagine Sprint or AT&T getting first dibs on it though.]]>Dec 19th 2008 6:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/Dec 19th 2008 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/
It's unfortunate, as T-Mobile doesn't have 3g in my area or any coverage at all in places I tend to be. AT&T doesn't have any coverage in those areas either. Verizon has EVDO even in the places others don't have coverage.

I personally hope Sprint gets a better phone than the Samsung units. If they had something that left me we with the experience that the G1 trial did, I'd jump ship from verizon in a heartbeat. Good coverage where I am and the ability to roam to VZW on occasion. Of course a physical keyboard is a requirement for me.]]>Dec 19th 2008 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/Dec 19th 2008 6:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/Dec 19th 2008 6:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/Dec 19th 2008 6:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/
Please, try to explain your point next time.]]>Dec 19th 2008 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/Dec 19th 2008 6:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/
It's certainly no longer JUST about the hardware, but the hardware still is MIGHTY important. The best software is useless if the hardware is simply crappy.]]>Dec 19th 2008 6:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/Dec 19th 2008 6:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/Dec 19th 2008 6:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/Dec 19th 2008 6:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/Dec 19th 2008 6:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/
Correction - 2009 is destined to be the year when we find out whether Android works or not. Certainly the Android platform has been released successfully to developers and there is a shipping phone available, but whether applications written for the platform with work the same on all phones remains to be seen. For the same reason that Java applications don't necessarily work the same on all platforms due to differences in the implementation of the JVM, so we wait to see if all manufacturers manage to implement Android the same or whether there are any differences. Fingers crossed...

This is the only thing that worries me about the platform.]]>Dec 19th 2008 6:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/Dec 19th 2008 6:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/Dec 19th 2008 6:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/
Any warnings you read about turning of legacy Java code, written for handsets, being complied into new Android apps is just FUD from Microsft and Sun. Google's master stroke of genius is how they cheated their way around the licensing restrictions of Java. When you combine the Dalvik coup with the Apache license, you'll see why 2009 will be the year of Android.

More detail on the coup that is Android's use of Dalik here:

http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/110/

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So the software platform that each Android application runs on will be the same across each device running Android? The comments that I've heard have been from developers rather than Sun or Microsoft, although it is possible that their concerns are based on FUD from those companies.]]>Dec 20th 2008 8:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/
On-topic:

The thing I dislike the most about a lot of these touch-screen devices is the fact that many of them lack the proper hardware buttons to play games properly. The iPhone, sad to say it, currently has the best game support of any handheld on the market. ]]>Dec 19th 2008 6:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/
Urh, why do I even bother.]]>Dec 19th 2008 6:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/



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Wish me luck in getting my Windows 7 Device on Sprint. ;)]]>Dec 19th 2008 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/Dec 19th 2008 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/
*sigh*]]>Dec 21st 2008 3:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/Dec 23rd 2008 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/samsungs-android-phone-hitting-sprint-and-t-mobile-by-june/Jan 8th 2009 2:37AM