Comments on: HTC, Sprint Confirm Android 2.0 for Hero and Samsung Moment Early Next Year (Updated)

By: Sprint Delays Hero/Moment Android Updates to Q2 2010 | PhoneNews.com

Sprint Delays Hero/Moment Android Updates to Q2 2010 | PhoneNews.com — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:08:22 +0000

[...] the Sprint Hero and Samsung Moment have been pushed back to the second quarter of the year from its previous 1st quarter [...]

By: Christopher

Christopher — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:58:35 +0000

@otis I called retention once I saw that Best Buy had the Hero for $99, and I paid $176 after discount/rebate buying from sprint.com. The rep gave me a $77 credit, so it’s doable.

By: Otis

Otis — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 01:21:48 +0000

Yeah, I already tried. They only give you that price if you activate a new line of service, which I’m not interested in doing.

By: Don Louie

Don Louie — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:12:08 +0000

You can get it at Best Buy for that price

By: Otis

Otis — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:13:17 +0000

Any chance of sprint dropping the price down to $99 to match Verizon’s?

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Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:12:38 +0000

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By: Duker

Duker — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:32:21 +0000

what is the point of an exclusive if it is only a few months, that is not going to make much of a difference.

By: Christopher Price

Christopher Price — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:53:01 +0000

Keep in mind, Android 2.0 on Verizon was a one time deal. Motorola did not deploy Android 2.0 on the CLIQ or the Milestone (the European variant of the Droid).

Motorola spent extreme amounts of R&D budgets to get Verizon that exclusive. It is much more likely to fall in-line with the other versions.

Finally, Google wanted to focus on a single device that was going to get a large ad campaign to promote Android. The HTC ad campaign was focused on the HTC brand, but Verizon’s Droid campaign was focused on promoting, well, an Android superphone. As such, Google too was interested in giving Droid the 2.0 exclusive.

Bottom line: The focus should be on making sure devices keep getting updated, the order they get updated in will become less of an issue with time.

By: JailBird

JailBird — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:10:03 +0000

Who wants to take bets that Sprint won’t release Eclair (2.0) until after Flan is already out on Vzw?

By: Don Louie

Don Louie — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:36:21 +0000

I’ll wait for the next hotness from whoever, for some reason I think Android and Web OS will be what it is