Dan: Samsung said at MWC that they won't have an Android phone before next year: http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSL1169121920080211. This has been widely reported, it's not my opinion. Similarly, HTC says their Android phone will be out "near the end of the year": see http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/03/20/HTC-names-Google-phone-Dream_1.html. Could be either side of "the end of the year" and still be "near" to it.
Now, I did state that "based on the completeness of the SDK" (which is clearly a judgment I'm making) I think it's unlikely. I've had substantial experience shipping commercial operating systems, something I'd point out that Google *doesn't *have. Let's be frank, Dan: the state of Android, looking at the SDK, is *far *from "feature complete", which puts in, in any standard software development terms, at pre-alpha. It's unstable, performance is sketchy (and seems to have worsened in the second SDK drop). It's got a long way to go before it's ready for prime time. So, yes, I'm stating an opinion, but it's an informed and educated one. Google's own lawyer, Richard Whitt, made the apparent misstatement that Android phones might be out "this summer or fall", and was immediately corrected: see http://www.news.com/8301-13579_3-9901954-37.html. So yes, the party line is "second half of 2008", but it won't be summer, and it won't be fall, apparently, which takes us pretty much up to the end of the year. So, what part of what I said is "untrue"? Do you want to provide a tighter clarification of what you mean? If not, I'll stand by my statements. -- 鏡石 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Internals" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-internals?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
