Sprint Nextel Corp. wants to regain the 3 million customers it has lost this year (probably due to the iPhone) with the help of a new Android phone. It is ready to release a phone based on Google’s operating system within a year, and is hoping that a high-profile handset might help get back those lost customers. It might be too little, too late, but we’ll soon find out.
Sprint is the largest service provider supporting Android, and a release on their network will make it a larger player in the smartphone market, which is projected to double to almost 340 million units by 2012.
I think the platform is cool. It’s still a little clunky, but it would be great to see a competitive situation develop. I think that will be great for all of us developing multi-platform applications!!
Jon at zhiing
What hardware are they looking to put it on?
Within a year? That’s like a lifetime in cell phone time. RIP Sprint.
I hope it all works out. I love Sprint and I don’t want to have to change to Verizon.
Sprint need to get rid of all it hourly government employees it hire by it purchase of nextel. And get back to a more rapid response team to be competitive. Donald Trump would fire people on the spot if they on the job in idle mode.