Recently at Fortune’s Brainstorm: Tech event in Pasadena on Friday, Sprint’s CEO Dan Hesse made a huge announcement. He stated that he was “Glad we waited on Android,” adding “The reviews say now it’s ready for prime time. It wasn’t when it first came out.” This is excellent news for sprint users! I have been speculating for a while now that sprint will be getting an android powered device, specifically the HTC hero. Android’s official code repository has been updated with a release of Andriod 2.0 ”Donut” build, the codebase is showing signs of CDMA support — a must have for Sprint and Verizon. I must say that the announcement from Sprint’s CEO and the codebase of Android 2.0 seem to “mesh” perfectly with the release of the most anticipated android device of the year, the HTC hero. Sprint has a Strong history of supporting HTC devices more than any other carrier with the HTC vogue “touch”, HTC Raphael “touch pro”, HTC Diamond, HTC Maple “snap”, the upcoming HTC Rhodium “touch pro 2″, and the upcoming HTC Topaz “touch diamond 2″. It seems that Sprint has decided to move onto Androiod power devices and hopefully replace the failure of a phone also known as the Palm Pre. If I had to take a guess, I would place the Hero release date around Oct-Nov just in time for the holiday season.
Posted by chreatina on July 26, 2009 at 11:58 PM
Awesome…now the question is how much?