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T-Mobile CTO Confirms Several More Android Smartphones Coming

We've recently written about reports that netbooks based on the Android operating system are in the works, and on news and photos of new, upcoming Android smartphones. In addition to these concrete signs of Android development, GigaOm has covered the news of T-Mobile's plans to deliver many Android devices later this year, with three partners. Now, GigaOm has an interview up with Cole Brodman, CTO of T-Mobile U.S.A.  Brodman confirms that we'll see new Android devices later this year, and confirms seeing Android running on netbook prototypes.

On the topic of Android netbooks, Brodman says: "We have seen multiple partners talking about building Android-based netbooks. I’ve seen devices working, but I won’t go any further than that."

Brodman also adds this in the interview (G1 refers to the T-Mobile G1 Android-based smartphone):

"We’ll follow up G1 this year with multiple Android devices in the second half that we’ll be launching with at least three partners. Then our goal would be to…continue that evolution so that eventually we will see Android in the feature phone category as well as moving up to more capable devices like netbooks and midrange computing devices from different nontraditional partners, maybe HP or Dell or others that are innovating in that space."

Along with the arrival of the Samsung i7500 Android smartphone, and multiple Android phones coming from Motorola, it's clear that some of the analysts who are suggesting that Android is already a failure are jumping the gun. It's true that everyone expected to see more Android phones at the Mobile World Congress conference earlier this year, but there is definitely active development going on from big companies, across numerous device types, with partnerships in place. Strategy Analytics is now predicting greater than 900 percent growth in Android smartphone shipments by the end of this year.  Check for more in the GigaOm interview with T-Mobile's CTO, and this accompanying piece on Motorola and Android.

• Android
• Motorola
• smartphones
• T-Mobile
• Samsung

by www.bbe.cz on Jun. 17, 2009

Can anyone write, what is so interesting in Android? For me - disgusting design.

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