Samsung expects to launch its first Android-based touchscreen phone in the U.S. between April and June next year, reports said Friday.
An unnamed Samsung official said the company is “accelerating” development of the handset in order to meet “specific needs of local carriers,” according to South Korean ET News.
Although few details are known, the handset may include a design similar to Samsung’s Instinct and Omnia phones, according to one report.
The phone may be offered by Sprint and T-Mobile. The handset, using Google’s open-source Android operating system will support both CDMA and 3G technology, the report said.
No pricing is available.
If Samsung does release the phone, it would be the second Android-based product for North American cell phone users. Earlier this year, T-Mobile USA unveiled the G1.
Ed Sutherland is a veteran technology journalist who first heard of Apple when they grew on trees, Yahoo was run out of a Stanford dorm and Google was an unknown upstart. Since then, Sutherland has covered the whole technology landscape, concentrating on tracking the trends and figuring out the finances of large (and small) technology companies.
