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When will irish networks be getting android?

  • 05-11-2008 11:56pm
    #1
    metalfest
    Registered Users Posts: 1,016 ✭✭✭


    simple question.
    when will the irish networks be getting an android os phone?


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  • #2
    StickyMcGinty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,835 ✭✭✭StickyMcGinty


    from what i've heard, O2 will be the first in the irish market. no dates or prices though...


  • #3
    AARRRGH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,382 ✭✭✭✭AARRRGH


    Judging by how often they update their phones in their Irish stores, I'll make a guess at 2012.


  • #4
    cojomo2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,216 ✭✭✭cojomo2


    i was told my a guy who works for tommys wonderland in blanch that 3 will have the htc dream early next yr..he was incharge of the phones section and seemed to know what he was talking bout..but them again it was tommys world of wonder or whatever that pound shop styled place is called..


  • #5
    GUIGuy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 246 ✭✭GUIGuy


    Hmmm well o2 announced this week that it was just launching the Samsung i780. That's 10 months after it was released. For all but certain successes (iPhone N95, E71 BB Bold etc) Irish networks generally wait until either the price of the phone has dropped so they can buy cheaper, or until they've cleared old stocks. The HTC dream/Android has got very mixed reviews. Bloggers get bored writting about Apple, Nokia, RIM, WinMob... so they'd obviously talk up a new entraint, but I don't see that Irish operators will be in a big rush.


  • #6
    Q_Ball
    Registered Users Posts: 2,320 ✭✭✭Q_Ball


    I asked in carphone warehouse, they said that the Irish market tends to be around 6 months behind the UK one. It goes sim-free next month for a ridiculous £599 (yes, pound) so we might see it then but as to when it will be released by a network, who knows.

    O2 are the only network in Ireland that are part of the OHA, I'd be surprised if any other network released it before they did.

    :(


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  • #7
    Walkman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,224 ✭✭✭Walkman


    OHA whats that?


  • #8
    mkennedy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,010 ✭✭✭mkennedy


    Walkman wrote: »
    OHA whats that?

    Open handset alliance- if i'm not mistaken, the arrangement between google (android) and the various handset-manufacturers/operators deploying Android.
    ie HTC, samsung etc.
    IIRC nokia isn't among them which should make things interesting.
    More here:
    http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/


  • #9
    Atomic Pineapple
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,272 ✭✭✭✭Atomic Pineapple


    I'm currently doing y final year project on android and would love the opportunity to show what i've done on an Android handset.

    Would be eternally gratefull to anyone in the mobil inustry if they could keep me updated with anything hat happens concerning Android being released on any of the irish networks


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