Sprint will offer Android Phone
Sprint CEO Dan Hesse told Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference-goers that Sprint would offer a mobile phone running the Google Android operating system in 2009, sources say. Hesse, who called the Palm Pre launch a coming-out party for Sprint, said it was still too early to call the Pre smartphone a hit, according to Reuters.
Sprint CEO Dan Hesse, speaking at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference on July 24, said the nation’s third-largest carrier would offer a mobile device running the Google Android operating system later in 2009, according to multiple sources.
Reuters reported that Hesse didn’t say which vendor’s device Sprint plans to offer, but he did say he has an eye on the work of Motorola’s new CEO, Sanjay Jha, who has been turning the phone maker’s focus to Google’s Android OS.
“Some things I can’t disclose, but I’m pretty impressed on the handset side with what Sanjay’s been able to do there since he’s been there,”Hesse said.
