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
That is all well and good, but what troubles me on a personal level is... if Sholes isn't coming with anything beyond Donut... then why the heck hasn't this thing been shipped or at least announced yet? Is this Sholes gonna become the next Omnia 2 where we ultimately spend more time waiting for it than it may actually spend in active life?
Somebody please notify Sprint first of all that WiMAX is a dead standard and IS NOT 4G.
Enough with this joke already...
WIMAX is a dead technology?...let me guess you are an LTE fan right?
I was just going to say, how is WiMAX 4G if HSPA+ is faster?
"First down the rabbit hole is a Sprint developer who claimed the first 4G (i.e. WiMAX) phone will be an Android device"
Umm no. HTC has had a WiMax phone running WinMo avail. in Russia for almost a year now.
Pretty sure he meant to say "their first" instead of "the first" as in sprint's first 4G phone, not the first 4G phone in the world.
I believe the "first 4G phone" comment was referring to the continent of North America where there is no socialist economy. Has HTC released that device to the US or Canada? If they have, tell me where I can get it.
Eastern hemisphere countries always have newer tech before us. That's just a fact we're going to have to live with.