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Android not good enough for Sprint name

27 October 2008 by Staff Editor


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Sprint has been having a lot of trouble marketing their own handsets in the last few years. They simply don’t have many phones to talk about, weather it be feature phones or smartphones. While Sprint’s phones are nothing special, Chief Executive Dan Hesse says Google’s Android mobile operating system is far from it.

Hesse told the National Press Club in Washington that he did not think Android, as of right now is ”not good enough to put the Sprint brand on it.” Our questions is, are phones such as the Motorola i850 or i365 any better than Android? We don’t see how the mobile operating system on these phones are better in any way.

As part of the Open Handset Alliance (OHA) along with about 30 other companies, Hesse promised that Sprint will sell an Android-powered handset “at some time in the future”. Looks like Sprint is going to be the last service provider out of the gate with an Android-powered handset. Many of our users are very upset to hear this news. Do you think we will be seeing an Android from Sprint by the end of 2009?

[Via Reuters]

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  1. Thats ok, Sprints not a good enough brand to own thier own towers, so I'm not worried about it. LOL
  2. Honestly, who cares if this foolish guy doesn't want Android on his wack devices, he'll regret it soon. Besides, that'll just be more customers for tmobile, matter of fact if I was Google I would rise to the occassion and tell Tmobile create an ad that gives sprint customers the opportunity to leave and offer a payment option for the G1, thus waiving all sign up fees and watch how that works out. LoL. Sprint guy is one serious idiot. His cells ain't worthy of Android if you ask anybody else besides him. What a big let down for the Sprint company! Glad I'm not with them. Thank you Tmobile and thanks Shawn, that's a great article!
  3. and the instinct is a good enough phone?

    lmfao

    skrew them,

    both att and t-mobile are better networks,

    this i know for sure,

    my boyfriends father is a ceo for a company that makes cell towers more reliable and able to handle more traffic, they work with att and t-mobile. not sprint. because sprint wants to continue to push forward and look into services such as wimax which is completely unstable.

    nuff said, had a phone on sprints network, done.
  4. Yah and Sprint is not good enough for me.
  5. Sprint sucked before this article and now they suck even worse.
  6. Sprint hasn't been anything special since the chirp went out of style. Gota keep up with the times. Honestly, if the G1 came out on Sprint, I wouldn't have bought it...

    = Boogdroid
  7. Quote:
    Honestly, if the G1 came out on Sprint, I wouldn't have bought it...
    Ditto. sprint vacuums
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by WazzuKirk View Post
    Sprint sucked before this article and now they suck even worse.
    Lol. Exacly.

    I mean, no beef but... Who really cares what this guy has to say? Sprint has got to seriously be one of the worst or if not the worst carrier out there.

    He's talking a substantial amount of **** when you think about the fact that the only exclusive phone that they have that's "popular" is the 'instinct'. And he knows damn well the Android is YEARS ahead of the instinct at it's present state. Imagine in the months and Apps to come.
  9. Ummm yeah.. that's because sprint sucks!! Sprint sucks so much that they had to change their name to Embark here in Orlando!! lol..
  10. i love T-mobile like the next person but I like their unlimited everything because with T-mobile i will be paying like 125-135 every month
  11. i thought april fools passed already?
    is this a joke or something cause i'm getting it..
  12. looks like the article's picture was edited with picsay
  13. Haha ...what a tool. Sprint sux...i hate the plans, ghost charges, and crappy phones. I had sprint about 6 years ago and their billings fees are ridiculous and they had the nerve to cut your phone off over a damn dime.....Sprint away please and dont come back.
  14. Sprint doesn't get it and never will. At least they are consistent. Glad I made the switch.
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by daveknights View Post
    looks like the article's picture was edited with picsay
    I should have huh? But it gives a weird watermark on the free version. I used Skitch.
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