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If you’re a Sprint customer and you’re anxious to put your hands on the first Android powered smartphone, here’s a little piece of advice: it would be a very good idea not to hold your breath while waiting, ‘cause you might have the most unwanted and unexpected surprise of them all. It looks like the CEO of Sprint is trying to stir up a little battle of words with Google and their Android, as apparently Sprint’s CEO, Dan Hesse, made a rather scathing comment to the National Press Club in Washington. Rumors say that Hesse doesn’t feel that Google Android is “good enough to put to Sprint brand on”, at least in its present form anyway.



We weren’t at the meeting, so we don’t precisely know the context for Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse’s speech, but according to Reuters, this guy, whom you may remember from those classy black-and-white commercials on the TV, has recently revealed its position.

Sprint may be having a lot of problems marketing its own brand in the last few years, but according to Hesse, Google’s Android mobile operating system isn’t perfect either. Nevertheless, he said that a phone powered by Android will be sold by Sprint “at some time in the future”, as Sprint is part of the alliance of about 30 companies that said they would support Google’s development of a mobile phone operating system.


This is undoubtedly surprising, because other than Apple’s iPhone, which is exclusively sold by the much larger rival of Sprint, AT&T, for at least a few more years, Google’s Android project is probably the most important in the mobile industry and the only one people are actually excited about. Not to mention the success AT&T scored with the iPhone for some time, while other carriers such as Sprint suffer in the smartphone market. Sprint has to find and provide a real competitor to the iPhone. Ok, there are many other phones with touchscreen capability, like the Samsung Instinct, for example, but let’s face it, nothing compares to the almighty iPhone. To overcome this losing-customers situation, Sprint has to do something, anything, to attract people on its side.



Sprint has hoped to get an Android phone in its arsenal by the end of the year to compete with the iPhone at Christmas, as the Wall Street Journal reported in June, but because of these delays, it seems that the company won’t be launching the device after all. Not this holiday season, anyways.

(Source Reuters)