The gang at
Android and Me seemed to have made quite a number of acquaintances on their sojourn through CTIA and MotoDev Summit. Specifically, there were three people along the way they reportedly talked to that led to the most tantalizing of rumors. First down the rabbit hole is a Sprint developer who claimed the first 4G (i.e. WiMAX) phone will be an Android device, which honestly wouldn't be all that shocking given the company's
love for and recent history with the OS. Next up is a Samsung exec that intimated we shouldn't expect Android 2.0
"Eclair" until Q2 2010 -- interesting in its own right, but looks like those whispers of
Sholes launching with anything beyond Donut isn't gonna come to fruition now. Our third definitive individual is an
INQ head employee who let slip its handsets would be finding its way onto a US carrier's network in 2010 and would have a "pimped out" customized Android skin chock full of social networking the likes of Spotify, Skype, Facebook, etc. The rest of its report is much ado about nothing -- no LG android phone this year, no TomTom app this year, and no standalone Google Maps navigation software. Yeah, that's quite a number of Android rumors to digest, and unfortunately nothing definitive. Looking forward to the future?
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posted Oct 13th 2009 8:29PM
I'm glad to see a mobile OS come to such grandiose fruition.
I'm going to reply to your comment for no other reason than to have my comment appear near the top of the list.
Hey, at least I admit it.
A 4G phone would be sweet right about now, too bad it doesn't have windows mobile though :(
It's just me that read this article as it was pronounced by BBT's Shelodn?
EDIT: Sheldon.
Either that or someone's just perusing Roget's again.
maybe its the samsung phone with eclair....
All I can say to Android is:
Hit me, baby, one more time !!!!
Let them come! Let them Android come in big numbers.
I feel like that android fellow and my avatar would get along nicely
:|
Elementary, my dear philip.
Is it just me, or does he look like a South Park Canadian in Sherlock Holmesian garb?
FINALLY!
After advertising for who knows how long, some news on actual WiMax phones on Sprint line.
Yaaay, more for reissued, MLIGN, cyanogen, and all the other Android devs to work on :)
(Posted from my rooted G1 :D)
Not holding my breath.
i swear engadget enjoys crushing lil kids dreams such as mine lol jk but yeah i was hoping for something cool 2 kome to android soon but i see thats nt gonna happen until nxt year lol
Isn't the Nokia N810 WiMAX a WiMAX phone?
The N810 isn't a phone.
Please hurry up and announce the Behold II release date. I'm sitting here using a POS nokia prepaid phone just because i don't want to waste my discount until this phone comes out.
If you showed someone who wasn't a tech person the headline to this article, I think their head might explode at how ridiculous the whole thing sounds.
So this means I'll have eclair on my G1 sometime early next year...nice...
I always kinda thought it was ambitious to have eclair roll out so soon after the donut release
and it makes sense considering most of the phones in the eco system are still running cupcake
my biggest fear for android now is this situation with phones like the hero that might be left behind on android os releases (at least for a little while) ...i would hate to see a situation where android is dead in the water because certain manufactures drag their asses on compatibility for their in house versions of android (sense,rachel,motoblur)
woot wott, 4G phone for the win :)