Sprint’s CEO: Android isn’t good enough yet

According to Reuters, Sprint’s CEO Dan Hesse (the guy in those black and white commercials) told the National Press Club in Washing DC that the Android platform is not “good enough to put the Sprint brand on it.”

That doesn’t exactly bode well for the world seeing a Sprint Android phone any time in the near future. We’ve heard of Sprint delays for Android before, so this doesn’t come as a complete shock, I suppose.

Hesse does promise that we will see an Android powered phone on Sprint eventually, though. He’s just not saying when.

5 Responses to “Sprint’s CEO: Android isn’t good enough yet”

  1. [...] In recent interview with Sprint’s CEO Dan Hesse, he says that Google Android isn’t good enough “yet” for Sprint to promote on their network. [...]

  2. Glad I’m not a Sprint customer — give him a week with a G1, he might feel differently ;)

  3. he has no clue what he is turning down. He has rocks in his head. G1 is a great phone, it just needs some tweeks like any other phone. Why do you think there are upgrade files for phones (all of them).

  4. [...] powered cell phone out the door.  It wasn’t so long ago that Sprint CEO Dan Hesse said that Android isn’t good enough yet.  Now, according to Sprint VP Kevin Packingham, the company is waiting for the right time to pull [...]

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