ZOMG! No Android phones till Q4 2008... right on schedule!

by Joshua Topolsky, posted Jun 23rd 2008 at 11:58AM

There's a lot of hoopla today over a Wall Street Journal piece stating that Google's first Android device has been pushed back to late 2008 for release -- yet the article fails to mention that this is right inline with what Google has been saying for quite awhile now. Admittedly, the fresh-faced mobile competitor probably is finding itself somewhat mired in carrier demands, which doesn't seem unexpected given the broad swath of partners it's collaborating with and the open source nature of the project, but as phone release schedules go, it hasn't veered off the path much. The breakdown is something like this: from what we've been told, you can expect an Android-powered handset before the new year (i.e., HTC's Dream driven by Google's OS), followed by a crop of higher profile phones showing up in early 2009 (as previously stated by companies like LG and Samsung). So... feel free to switch off the alarms anytime you like.

[Via GigaOM]

Filed under: Handsets, HTC, LG, Samsung, Sprint, Misc, China Mobile, Android

Tags: google, q4 2008, Q42008, release schedule, ReleaseSchedule, rumors, speculation

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MobileRoar @ Jun 23rd 2008 1:27PM

THANK YOU! Finally a sensible article calming this unnecessary panic attack. Talk about a game of telephone (err... mobile phone) gone awry.
http://phandroid.com/2008/06/23/android-delayed-depends-on-who-you-ask/

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Will @ Jun 23rd 2008 1:50PM

I hope there will be a CDMA version of Android. Although I'm not holding my breath.

I would love to have a phone that has cutting edge features, and actually be able to use them. I can only imagine the nightmares this is causing at Verzion. "What do you mean we can cripple all of the extra features?"

I'd switch to another carrier, but VZW would just buy them out, so I'd be stuck.

I f@#$ing hate VZW so much.

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