Google chief says Android announcements "significant" this year
By Chris Ziegler 
posted Apr 20th 2009 8:39AM
posted Apr 20th 2009 8:39AM
The Android buzz meter has witnessed an epic fall from grace over the past six months as webOS, new iPhone hardware and software, and -- gasp! -- maybe even a little WinMo 6.5 / 7.0 talk have all conspired to win back real estate in the mobile gossip columns. It's hard to say what the OHA's going to need to get back in the spotlight, but one part of that puzzle clearly comes from the 1.5 build in the pipeline, and another part is... well, a big mystery. In its first-quarter earnings call, Google CEO Eric Schmidt played coy about the situation, saying only that "it looks like Android is going to have a very strong year" and that the announcements we'll see in the space will be "quite significant." As much as we're stoked to see the Magic hit shelves, we can't say that we'd chalk that up as a "quite significant" announcement, so we're hoping it only gets better from here; Samsung, you have anything to say about this?[Via MobileBurn]
hey, i have an idea for a great announcement: Android phones on US carriers besides Tmobile!
Note to Android, theres only on product out, way to much talk about new phones and netbooks and whatever else they are saying is being released.... ppl are getting restless make something happen already !
The G1 from HTC has really created a false impression of Android, it was built with early software that HTC finished. The first real Android phones come later this year. HTC rushed a product out to be first and get the initial orders. By significant year I believes he means we will see phones that really use the power of Android, not some hacked together phone that was more about release date than a mature software build.
We want the damn Magic in the US already! All this Android talk and we have one freakin' phone available, which is an ugly piece of plastic. Step it up.
Almost to May, and all we've gotten new is the Magic. We'll be lucky if we get two phones by the end of the year. So far Android has been nothing but a lot of big talk with very little product to show for it, especially in the US.Is android gonna become the next S60, with lots of overseas devices yet no love from US carriers? Starting to look that way.
Actually, you'd be surprised how popular S60 is in the states. You know Verizon's proprietary OS that they put on almost all their non-smartphones? It's S60. Granted, it's locked down to hell, they replace the normal themes with a really really shitty one and it's VERY RAM starved, but it's S60