Report: Samsung readying Android phone
The latest to line up with word of an entry into the Android phone sweepstakes: Samsung Electronics.
Korea IT News reports that the electronics giant plans to offer a phone based on Google's Android operating system in the second quarter of 2009. The device will be released in North America through Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile USA, according to the report.
"To this end," the report says, Samsung "has added 30 experts in Linux and Java to the task force team of its information and communications division."
T-Mobile was the first carrier to offer an Android-based phone, the G1, which went on sale earlier this fall.
The Samsung device is expected to be a "full touch-screen phone" and will include "the Google Map-based location information service, messenger G-Talk, the G-mail application and Google Search," according to Korea IT News.
Samsung is a member of Google's Open Handset Alliance.
Earlier this week, China's Huawei Technologies talked about its Android plans, saying that its smartphone would be ready in the third quarter.
Jonathan Skillings is managing editor of CNET News, based in the Boston bureau. He's been with CNET since 2000, after a decade in tech journalism at the IDG News Service, PC Week, and an AS/400 magazine. He's also been a soldier and a schoolteacher. E-mail Jon. 
Google problem is that Manufactures are slow to adopt Android and this in the end is going to be why the consumer market will not adopt their technology.
The iPhone in two word is "Simply Amazing" .
i would say a good match up is the omnia and the samsung android phone
eternity and behold are just kinda not in the same category that these other phones are
And I doubt that Motorola would be able to come up with anything better than Samsung can come up with, so I am going to wait for Samsung's entry into the Android game.
- by 0820798 December 22, 2008 6:47 AM PST
- ah, helllloooo!!! the android is a htc product! not samsung. ihav an android and no where on it it says samsung!
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- by AZNpeoples December 22, 2008 8:20 AM PST
- what are you talking about!!
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- by grilledcharlie December 22, 2008 9:14 AM PST
- Ah, helllloooo!! The windows is a dell product! Not hp. I have a windows and nowhere on it it says hp!
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- by J5Chicago December 22, 2008 9:28 AM PST
- hi. Android is the name of the mobile operating system from Google and not the name of the hardware. That's the whole deal behind Android, having a platform that works across multiple mobile devices as opposed to just being stuck with the mobile operating system that the hardware manufacturer puts on the phone.
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- by judy4all February 4, 2009 12:19 PM PST
- lol @ grilledcharlie.....
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(16 Comments)we all know that it was htc to make the first android phone!
we're just saying we have high expectations for samsungs android phone so we're saying it'll be the first GOOD one like pedspeds said
I will also say, regardless of what people think about Google and the way it captures and looks at your info, this is a huge step forward for mobile phones and the information and features available. This will only get better. I personally look forward to eliminating paper from my daily routine and using my phone to purchase everything.
@ 0820798........Dude they are talking about android-based mobile phone that WILL BE released in the 2nd Qtr of 09, not the one that has already been released.