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Friday December 19, 2008
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Samsung will release at least one Google Android device in the US next year, according to a Korean news report. According to etnews.co.kr, the Samsung Android phone will come out on Sprint and T-Mobile in the second quarter of the year.
Samsung's US press people, Sprint's and T-Mobile's press people all had no comment on this story. (Not a big surprise.)
According to the Korean report, the new devices will use a full-touch-screen form factor, like their existing Instinct for Sprint and their Behold phone for T-Mobile. Just as with the Instinct and Behold, we expect that the two phones will be significantly different inside, but look pretty much the same from the outside.
Samsung, LG and HTC are all rumored to be bringing new Android phones to the US this year, with dark-horse candidates possibly coming from Motorola, Kyocera and Sony Ericsson. We don't expect to see any of these phones at CES in January, but we expect a big roll-out of European models at the Mobile World Congress trade show in February followed by some US models at the CTIA show in early April.
Right now, the only Android phone on the market is T-Mobile's G1, made by HTC.
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