Sprint CEO Says Android Not Good Enough for Sprint Branding

[HaZ]

It appears that Dan Hesse, Sprint CEO, is not sold on the whole Android epidemic. Hesse told the National Press Club in Washington that Android is “not good enough to put the Sprint brand on it.”

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[cruiseoveride]

Talk about old news. This article should have aired last week

 

[eklipz330]

another week old article huh? they're def stuck in the past.

 

[adamk890]

Yeah its a week old but who cares Tom's is always accurate im willing to be a week behind if it means that the story's are well written and them make sure that there real.

 

[neiroatopelcc]

[citation][nom]adamk890[/nom]Yeah its a week old but who cares Tom's is always accurate im willing to be a week behind if it means that the story's are well written and them make sure that there real.[/citation]
seconded

 

[mdillenbeck]

There is a negative for cellular providers who adopt an open-source OS for their phones - they will have a much more difficult time locking down all those features and prevent users from adding their choice of applications to the phones. Currently locking and unlocking features to brand phones is one of the few things cellular providers can do to distinguish themselves in the US - how should they react if this power is taken from their grasp and they must compete solely on price and quality of their networks?

 

[fuser]

Sprint certainly couldn't survive if it had to compete based only on the quality of their network. I live in the middle of San Diego, and I have to walk outside of my condo to get a signal.

I'm leaving Sprint as soon as we have some more Android choices.

 

[nekatreven]

Sprint has one of the worst coverage areas here in Dallas too.

I hope they keep moving forward though. It is my understanding things have not been so great for them in the days since buying nextel.

As far as I know, and not just based on their commercials, they really were the first carrier to offer the unlimited for $99 plan that many carriers since jumped on and/or improved upon.

Also, they are one of the first who are doing the whole "configure all your stuff and show you how it works in the store" bit. Apple has done it a lot with their stuff in their stores, best buy does it...I'm not sure of many others right now though.

I'm not personally a customer of theirs...but I do hope these kind of things keep up and Sprint can stay around as another competitor.