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Samsung Android phone gets delayed

13 February 2009 16:57 by Andre "DVDBack23" Yoskowitz | 1 comment

The electronics giant Samsung has delayed its Android-based mobile phone until later this year, choosing to debut the gadget's specs at the Mobile World Congress 2009.

Younghee Lee, head of marketing at Samsung's mobile device business, told The Guardian that the actual phone won't be shown off at the show and instead will be launched in the Q3 2009. The company is still negotiating which carriers will release the phone.

Last month, rumors flared that the Android-based phone was going to be sold in the US through T-Mobile and Sprint Nextel, and would be similar to their popular Instinct handset.

"We are accelerating the development process for Google phone in order to meet the specific need of local carriers," Samsung added. "We will be able to release Google phone in the second quarter of the next year in the U.S. market."

Although unconfirmed, it has been rumored that Samsung has had a team of Linux and Java experts working on the phone for over 6 months.

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blueroad (Newbie) 13 February 2009 19:47
this article is a bit confusing..up untill now i didnt even know samsung was workin on an android based phone..and i still dont understand from the article when will we get specs..though all this may be due to the fact im drunk atm so bear with me lol [ + quote]