Google Android on Schedule to threaten Apple iPhone growth

Yesterday we reported that Google Android handsets pushed back to fourth quarter meaning that there were delays (See Here) well despite rumors of these delays in Android the Google project seems to be on track as normal for an end of the year release.

They did say that they will start shipping the first Android-enabled mobile phone later this year, so after reports of the delay which of course published (We tell the news how it is, we heard of the delay so we published), The Wall Street Journal published an article citing unnamed sources that Google Android-based phones may be facing delays and will not make it at the end of the year due to problems by Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile, and that we may not see until 2009. Google did indeed set the 2nd half of 2008 as the release date for the first Android-enabled phones which means we should see it at the end of 2008 which in all means there is no delay at all.

Google is again refuting that Android’s dates have slipped and they say “We remain on schedule to deliver the first Android-based handset in the second half of 2008,” a Google spokesperson wrote in an e-mail to BetaNews today. “We’re very excited to see the momentum continuing to build behind the Android platform among carriers, handset manufacturers, developers and consumers.”

Just so you know Sprint Nextel, for its part, has never publicly stated any intentions to release an Android phone any time in 2008. Now moving on to Google Android to threaten Apple iPhone growth, the announcement of the new Apple iPhone 3G was big news and obviously going to be one of the most popular phones on the market but it seems that Android could threaten the iPhone’s growth potential, Google Android the all new OS for mobile phone is open source that the internet giant is creating. Android which was announced some time back has over 30 partners and has the most potential to become mobile phones what Google is to the internet, Google are obviously wanting to deploy ads placed on mobile phones and generate huge revenues, should Apple be worried? Well it seems so in my eyes.

Google are making great efforts to make an operating system to work on a variety of carriers and handsets which is why there were talks of delays which of course is now old news, we feel that Google could dominate which will of course make the iPhone old news, Google like Apple have a very big wallet, Apple has indeed shown with the Apple iPhone that the cell phone market is highly crack-able despite entrenched players, Apple believe they will set a goal which is of course on goal for selling 10 million iPhone’s by the end of 2008. Google are trying so hard to build an OS across a number of hardware platforms which surely gives them a wider market. The cell phone market in the states has dropped in sales by a staggering 20% last year which is why we feel Google Android will fill this spot, smartphones accounted for 17 percent of all handsets sold in the first quarter of 2008 which is around 7 percent the year before according to NPD’s Mobile Phone Track.

Even if there was a Google Android delay it would not make any difference at all on the grand scale of things, do you think Google Android will threaten Apple iPhone growth?