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Telecommunications Google Android mobiles face lengthy delays | Google Android mobiles face lengthy delays |
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| by Davey Winder | |
| Monday, 23 June 2008 | |
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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the promise of Android powered mobile handsets being delivered within a month or two will not be met. In fact, the newspaper suggests that we will be lucky to see any handsets at all until next year. Featured Whitepaper
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Things have, however, gone very quiet since November 12th when the Android SDK was released. That was also the last time the Open Handset Alliance published a press release, according to its website. Mind you, I guess it is not surprising that they are not drawing media attention to the fact that most networks are privately suggesting a deadline of anytime this year is now unrealistic. The Wall Street Journal suggests that T-Mobile USA may well be the only network to hit a handset release by the very end of this year. And Taiwan's HTC one of the few manufacturers expected to hit a handset delivery target. Sprint Nextel has apparently abandoned its plans to launch until into 2009, and problems with the development of a Chinese language version of the OS have meant that China Mobile is expected to follow that same time scale. |
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