Hop-on questions Sprint; spills beans about future Android-powered handsets

[refused9150]

Hop-on has reason to believe that the reason Sprint's CEO Dan Hesse is dismissing Google's Android Platform, despite being on of the founders of the Open Handset Alliance (OHA), is not because it is not good enough for the Sprint name, but because... Read more

[WazzuKirk]

Sprint has no market share so how could they lose it?? LOL

[Crashdamage]

Hesse and his clueless compadres at Sprint are just pissed because Google wanted nothing to do with Sprint, rejected 'em flat-out. As one of the founding members of the OHA, Sprint expected to be cut in on the deal. But for their first phone and first release of Android Google understandably wanted to be associated with a company known for good customer service and a growing customer base rather than lousy customer service and a shrinking customer base. For good coverage instead of crap coverage. IOW, Google didn't feel it was their responsibility to try to rescue Sprint's sinking ship at their expense.

So now Hesse spits on Android to try and save face. Really weak move from Hesse...not foolin' anyone.

[MaxRockatansky]

Are you serious first off Sprint chose not to use android yet because they wanted to intergrate sprints key features into the android system. Things like Sprint TV, NFL Mobile Live, and Music premiere which could take several months. Second if Hesse gave positive feedback to the t-mobile G1 he would probably have no job. Another thing there is no such thing as good customer service and as far as t-mobile having good coverage and sprint having "crap coverage" well your just an idiot if you believe that. The cdma towers sprint and verizon use are the best out there. Sprint also just spent millions of dollars upgrading there towers and currently have the largest 3G network, t-mobiles happeneds to be the smallest even worse then AT&T

[K.Krstnsn]

Are you serious first off Sprint chose not to use android yet because they wanted to intergrate sprints key features into the android system. Things like Sprint TV, NFL Mobile Live, and Music premiere which could take several months. Second if Hesse gave positive feedback to the t-mobile G1 he would probably have no job. Another thing there is no such thing as good customer service and as far as t-mobile having good coverage and sprint having "crap coverage" well your just an idiot if you believe that. The cdma towers sprint and verizon use are the best out there. Sprint also just spent millions of dollars upgrading there towers and currently have the largest 3G network, t-mobiles happeneds to be the smallest even worse then AT&T

yes cdma 3g is so awesome. Good for sprint tv, and verizons justin timberlake TV....

give me a break kid.

and besides verizon has the largest cdma 3g not sprint....

[Crashdamage]

Yes, I'm serious...

MaxRockantansky wrote:

Sprint chose not to use android yet because they wanted to intergrate...Things like Sprint TV, NFL Mobile Live, and Music premiere which could take several months.

Android's been in the works for 2 years. Sprint was one of the founding members of the OHA. They knew all about Android from the start and had plenty of time to integrate their stuff. Google wanted nothing to do with it. Apparently few people want that crap anyway. Hasn't exactly been big draws for Sprint's service. Their customers are still fleeing as fast as their contracts will let 'em. Sprint refugees, as they're called by some Sprint employees. The Nextel users are just called victims.

Second if Hesse gave positive feedback to the t-mobile G1 he would probably have no job.

After being punk'd by Google for T-Mobile, I'm sure he wouldn't.

...there is no such thing as good customer service...

Sure there is. For 11 years, I've gotten pretty fair customer service from T-Mobile and some other companies. They don't come over an cut my grass or tuck me in at night, but some companies do a fair job of takin' care of customers.

...as far as t-mobile having good coverage and sprint having "crap coverage" well your just an idiot if you believe that.

Guess I'm an idiot. But I live in Sprint's hometown, their world headquarters. You'd think they could and would do a decent job here, if anywhere. But no, the incompetence runs too deep. I know for certain that T-Mobile's coverage right here in Sprint's house is far better.

The cdma towers sprint and verizon use are the best out there.

Not according to my brother-in-law, who supervised tower construction for Sprint in several states. Sprint's equipment is the worst - except for Nextel's - but that's another story.

Sprint also just spent millions of dollars upgrading there towers...

Was badly needed. They still need to spend a few hundred million more, which they just don't have.

...and currently have the largest 3G network...

Common knowledge that Verizon's 3G is the largest - not necessarily the best, but the largest.

t-mobiles happeneds to be the smallest...

True. Because T-Mobile originally wanted to skip 3G altogether and go straight to 4G. So, they purposely lagged behind in building 3G, thinking they would leapfrog the competition. But 4G has had so many technical problems that now they find themselves forced to do 3G anyway. It'll take 'em a while to catch up, but they will. And when they do they'll have the newest and best 3.5G network of all. And T-Mobile already bought up a lotta bandwidth for that 4G network still in the works.

[defaultuser]

i wonder who will buy sprint when they go under.

[NPS_CA]

You guys do know Hop-On is a scam, right? These are the guys that tried to market a $10 disposable cell phone. Their CEO was already arrested and jailed for fraud once.

If Google is smart they would state that these guys have NOTHING to do with Android and move on.

Hop-On is the joke of the cellphone industry. A real shame that all these legit blogs keep writing about them.

Do a Google search for Hop-On and scam