Sprint have outed their first Android smartphone, the Samsung Moment. The Moment has a 3.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen running a 320 x 480 resolution, together with a slide-out full QWERTY keyboard, WiFi b/g, Bluetooth and EVDO Rev.A. There’s also a 3.5mm headphones jack and microSD card slot. There’s also GPS with turn-by-turn Sprint Navigation, a 3.2-megapixel autofocus [...]
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The Washington Post looks at Sprint HTC Hero
The Washington Post has looked at the Sprint HTC Hero mobile phone and says that the handset is a big leap for Sprint and its Android line in hardware and software. However, the handset isn’t perfect with notable flaws like slow performance, unreliable video playback, and a hard to use touch keyboard. The publication points out [...]
Sprint to give devs free HTC Hero and service
Sprint has announced that at the developer’s conference it is holding on October 26 it will be giving away free HTC Hero handsets and a month of free service. The free phone and service will be given to the first 400 developers who attend the HTC Coding Lab.
Best Buy to Offer HTC Hero on Sprint
One of the things that I hate the most about buying smartphones is that the price you see typically isn’t the real price of the phone. You have to hope for instant discounts and often you need to mail in rebates. Sprint has announced that on October 11 it will be offering the HTC Hero Android [...]
Sprint planning HTC Hero & combo CDMA/WiMAX Android phone?
No official confirmation as yet, but according to PhoneNews Sprint is internally testing a CDMA version of the HTC Hero with a release planned for the end of 2009. HTC themselves have only confirmed that the Hero will reach the US “later in 2009″, after its European and Asian debut. The Sprint Hero would also be [...]
First Samsung Android phone in June; two US devices later in 2009
The Samsung Android smartphone spotted last month could arrive sooner than expected, with the first Google OS handset from the company now shipping in June. According to Dr Won-Pyo Hong, executive VP of global product strategy for Samsung’s mobile division, the plan is to release their preliminary Android device – outside of the US – [...]
Samsung working on an Android-powered handset for late 2009
We have received word that Samsung is working on their “Gphone” with the aim of second quarter next year for Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile. It is with heavy heart that we inform you guys that there are no leaked spy photos or renders of this handset….yet. Samsung currently has 30 Linux and Java experts working very [...]
Samsung Android smartphone coming Q2 2009 to Sprint & T-Mobile
Samsung are working on an Android-powered device, which will launch in Q2 2009 on Sprint and T-Mobile USA. According to industry sources, the handset is a full-touchscreen device similar to the Samsung Omnia or Instinct; an unnamed spokesperson for the company has confirmed that the Android phone’s development was ramped up at the request of carriers. “We [...]
Sprint finally accepts Android
Despite Sprint’s CEO Dan Hesse claiming Android is not good enough for the Sprint name, they are ready to welcome an Android-powered handset sometime in the next year. Looks like someone is eating his words and coming back with his tail between his legs, contradicting himself less than two months after making the statement that [...]
Hop-on questions Sprint; spills beans about future Android-powered handsets
Hop-on has reason to believe that the reason Sprint’s CEO Dan Hesse is dismissing Google’s Android Platform, despite being on of the founders of the Open Handset Alliance (OHA), is not because it is not good enough for the Sprint name, but because Sprint will lose market share. According to Hop-on, Sprint has invested billions of [...]
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