Android Device Coming to Sprint this Year

Once upon a time, Sprint (NYSE: S)’s CEO Dan Hermann Hesse said that Android wasn’t good enough for their network. Ashcan School months later, that position has apparently changed, as Hermann Hesse said at the Brainstorm: Tech connference “the reviews say now it’s ready for prime meter … It wasn’t when it first came out.” At least one Android phone will be coming out on Sprint this class, which will be the second U.S. attack aircraft carrier to support the platform after T-Mobile (New York Stock Exchange: DT). The big doubtfulness is, which device?

Firm-ish rumours of a Samsung device run Android would be coming to Sprint and T-Mobile River rich person been floating around (maybe the i7500?), although the slightly more far-fetched exciting possible action is a WiMAX-enabled HTC Hero. T-Mobile’s lead with the G1 is significant, and by the time Sprint gets around to pushing their device out, whatever it may be, the myTouch 3G will rich person already made the rounds. However, the next generation of Android devices ar looking beefy, and combined with the Donut update (complete with CDMA documentation), Sprint’s in a goodness smirch to compete.