The need to install their own Google phone services, is delaying the release of the Android smartphone for such operators as Sprint and China Mobile, has announced today’s Wall Street Journal. It is expected that in these two cases, the phone will be delayed at least until 2009.
However, the phone with OS Android, which will be released in the U.S. under the T-Mobile logo, as expected, will appear at the end of 2008. If the Wall Street Journal is true, it can be assumed that the Google smartphone will be released at the end of the year, but not for all the operators.
The delayed release of the phones with OS Android for some operators could play as a good card for Apple. Judging from what has recently revealed Google, the functionality of the Android platform is fully capable to compete with iPhone.
