androidauthority.com - 10/25/2008
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According to Reuters, Sprint’s CEO Dan Hesse (the guy in those black and white commercials) told the National Press Club in Washing DC that the Android platform is not “good enough to put the Sprint brand on it.”
That doesn’t exactly bode well for the world seeing a ...
blogs.reuters.com - 10/25/2008
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blogs.reuters.com —
Sprint may be having a lot of problems
marketing its own brand in the last few years,...
but according to Chief Executive Dan Hesse, Google’s Android mobile operating system isn’t perfect either. He told the National Press Club in Washington that he ...
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engadgetmobile.com - 10/20/2008
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engadgetmobile.com —
Those crazy new Samsungs and LGs (well, LG
singular) reppin' Sprint's fall lineup have dropped into stores...
dressed and ready for retail, and text fanatics are definitely the ones making out like bandits here. Starting out on the low end, the Samsung ...
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LG Lotus, Samsung Rant and Highnote now available from ...
boygeniusreport.com - 11/2/2008
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boygeniusreport.com —
Woo! Sprint customers in need of a sexy
new smartphone will be happy to learn that the...
Touch Pro’s limited availability is now a thing of the past. HTC’s beast of a QWERTY slider is officially ripe for the picking and can be snagged from the Sprint ...
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Sprint Touch Pro now available on web
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Dan Hesse sez Android "not yet good enough" for Sprint brand
Engadget —
... he didn't feel Android (in its current form) was "good enough to put the Sprint brand on." In all fairness, Sprint has shown a friendly side to Google in the past, and he did promise to sell an Android-powered phone "at some time in the future," but asserting that Sprint is in the position to shy away from what's arguably the most exciting thing to happen to the mobile realm since the advent of the iPhone is, um, questionable at best. [Via Android Authority]Read | Permalink | Email ...
Google Android not good enough says Sprint CEO Hesse
Phones Review —
... Club in Washington.
The word is Hesse casually spouted out that he doesn’t feel that Google Android is “good enough to put the Sprint brand on,” well at least in its present form anyway.
Sprint has been quite friendly with Google in the past, and Hesse has said Sprint will sell Android based handsets at sometime in the future, however Hesse has said that Sprint is in the position whereby they can shy away from Android if it so wished.
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