Sprint abandons Nexus One, favors Evo 4G

16th May, 2010 by adina
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Sprint has announced it had abandoned the plans for its own model of Nexus One. It explained that it would no longer need Google’s Android flagship as it would be eclipsed by the Evo 4G. The latter has the advantage of a larger screen, a front video chat camera and an 8-megapixel camera on its rear with 720-pixel capture. Sprint’s decision is somehow abrupt because it follows less than two months after Sprint’s official announcement of a Nexus One release.

The coup follows a similar action from Verizon which abandoned its plans for a Nexus One version, preferring the Droid Incredible instead. Both carriers have outlined that the newer handsets were technically superior to the reference phone of Google, which shipped a few months earlier.

These decisions are frustrating for Google and its own hopes for Android. Google and Android still benefit from the Evo 4G and Droid Incredible, which expand Android’s influence, but Google hoped the Nexus One would interrupt the tradition regarding the phone sales model by considering the phone as being more important than the network. Google also tried to emulate a model very likely to the iPhone by designing the software and also influencing directly the hardware. This move was considered by some people to create resentment among the Android partners which would be forced to compete against their operating system supplier with respect to phone sales.


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