Rumor: smartphone for Sprint 4G-network will be based on Android, and Android 2.0 will be released only next year

According to the resource Android and Me with reference to insider sources, the first mobile device operator Sprint 4G networks will be running an operating system Android. This smartphone, obviously, will appear in the next year. Producer of 4G-smartphone for Sprint, based on Android, probably, will the company Samsung Electronics.

Also, the source reported that the release updates Android 2.0 Eclair postponed. According to the company Samsung, familiar with the plans for the development platform Android, expect Eclair not be until the second quarter of 2010. For example, a new smartphone Motorola Droid (Tao, Sholes), which is due out later this year, obviously, will only Android 1.6. Also became known that the first Android-smartphone from LG Electronics for the U.S. market will be announced at CTIA 2010.