CEO of Sprint proclaims Google Android not good enough
Filed under: Cell Phone Information, Cell Phones | By: Daniel
Posted on: October 26, 2008 | 3 Comments
Sprint may have signed up with the other 30 or so companies to support Google’s development of the Android mobile phone operating system, but currently they are not so keen.
The CEO of Sprint has proclaimed that Google’s Android OS is not good enough just yet, Dan Hesse spoke in Washington to The National Press Club and informed them that Android is not “good enough to put the Sprint brand on it” yet.
Hesse did say that Sprint would sell an Android powered phone “at some time in the future”. This is a very interesting statement for Hesse to make considering that Sprint has been having problems marketing its brand over the last few years, and the Android OS may be the biggest thing to hit cell phones in years.
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I have just read this story on my t-mobile G1 and I think Android is great. Future updates will refine the OS and the open platform, which provides endless growth opportunities.
I am a very unsatisfied Blackberry customer on the Sprint network who has a contract that expires this year. Sprint might not “green light” an Android product anytime in the near future so I will have to start shopping for a new carrier :-(…
This statement is typical old school mobile phone thinking…Sprint KNOWS Android is the hottest thing out right now. They also know that like missing the iphone boat..they didnt bother to even offer a hint of an android product of their own so they release a negative statement like this one in hopes that unthinking people will take this do-little ceo’s opinion as some kind of ‘expert’ statement. Most likley so people will not notice how BAD and weak the instinct product actually is in comparison to the G1.
typical, so very typical.