Considering Sprint’s continued embrace of Titan, I don’t see AU-MIC taking off on Samsung phones, it’s too splintered in a marketplace where Sprint Samsung phones are such a small minority in the mobile industry. There would be few, if any developers of significance willing to support it.

Granted, it’s unfortunate that Sprint doesn’t offer it, and I wish the option was there… there’s no reason AU-MIC apps couldn’t co-exist with Titan apps. At the same time though, with Titan, I think it’s a good business decision for Sprint to aim for one app platform across all their phones. Probably the best way to take on iPhone’s native code, tell developers they can support every Sprint device (including smartphones) with a single codebase.

Titan is actually much more open, and allows for most Sprint closed APIs to no longer require Sprint signing or approval to use.

I suspect that Sprint is hopeful that Verizon will go the CDC route, as they have committed to embracing Java on the path to LTE. And, CDC really is their only option, MIDP 3.0 is dead in the water. With AT&T leaning towards Symbian, and T-Mobile lost in the forest, a Sprint/Verizon partnership on Java CDC makes the most sense. Java CDC runs flawlessly on all the smartphone OSes, and scales down to modern ARM dumbphones.

Same seems to apply here – introduce yet another unique programming environment at the same time that developers are flocking to Android, iPhone and WebOS. If Sprint is the only resource behind Titan, it will die just as the Instinct is dying, due to lack of support.

I don’t think you can associate logical actions with Sprint’s actions.

We’re aware of what Opera’s CEO said at the time. While it’s possible that an Opera Mini deal with another carrier is imminent, we believe that Opera’s CEO simply misspoke, or intentionally misspoke to shroud that Opera Mobile finally got a U.S. carrier agreement.

Titan is not just for Windows Mobile devices, the Sprint ADP site notes that the Windows Mobile runtime is currently the only version available. And, that is correct… but Instinct HD will change this. Sprint has never said that Titan was intended solely for Windows Mobile, that would be, well, pointless.

If it is Opera Mobile, I wonder if it’s the long in the tooth version 8.60 that was on some RAZR2′s or a brand new Opera Mobile for embedded OSs based on the Opera Mobile 9.5 or 9.7 platform which includes widget support?