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Samsung plans an Android-based smartphone on Sprint and T-Mobile this year

Details are scarce, but if you're a Sprint customer you might finally get your hands on a phone running Google's Android software by the end of the year.

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Mobile | by Tanner Godarzi | Mon Jan 19, 2009 8:07PM | 0 comments

That Android cell phone operating system looks pretty neat, eh? But what if you're a Sprint customer and you don't want to switch to T-Mobile to use the G1? We have good news for you! Last month rumors swirled around a Samsung-made Android phone hitting T-Mobile and Sprint. Those rumors phone just got a lot more concrete thanks to a leak from one of Samsung's executives.

If you're looking for specs, you'll be disappointed; no word from that front yet. There is some good news if you're a fan of the Samsung Instinct: speculation has pointed to a design similar to that or the Omnia. That means no hardware keyboard. Instead, you'd get a touch-screen keyboard similar to the iPhone. A vague launch date of 2009 was given by Samsung.

It's no surprise that Samsung would be interested in using Android in one of its smartphones but it isn't the first or the last. The Open Handset Alliance (of which Samsung is a part) has many members pledging to contribute to the project.

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