Nexus One Ready for a Bumpy Launch On Sprint

Written by: Gundeep Hora on 4/29/10  |  Filed Under Mobile  |  Share    

We published a story yesterday that confirmed the Nexus One launch on Sprint. After Google decided not to launch the Nexus One on Verizon in lieu of the HTC Droid Incredible, consumers were concerned if the Sprint Nexus One will experience the same fate. Not so, as a Sprint online customer service representative confirmed. However, we don’t expect the Nexus One to be successful on Sprint.

While Google is looking to introduce the Sprint Nexus One in May, one of the hottest Android handsets, the HTC EVO 4G, will debut on the yellow carrier in June. That’s less than a month of difference between the two phones. Logic states, why buy the Nexus One when you can wait a few weeks and get the HTC EVO 4G? With Google waiting to introduce the Nexus One on CDMA carriers, it’s losing subscribers to even more powerful Android devices, which is fine. The search giant is in it for Android, not to make billions from a hardware business.

What do you think? Will the HTC EVO 4G overshadow the Nexus One on Sprint? Sounds off in our comments below.

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  • tony
    I bet you will get better battery life with the Nexus One, since the screen is smaller and Wimax may use more power....
  • Eric
    I, for one, am one that woudl like the nexus over EVO and for all of Nate's reasons. I just hope that they can announce that the Sprint version has cleared up it's 3g problems, multitouch problems, screen cracking when placed in pocket problem and dust under screen problem that have tarnished the image of the tmobile version.
  • Nate
    While it's true that the Evo 4G may overshadow the Nexus One on Sprint overall, I think there are a few reasons why someone might want a Nexus One instead:

    1) Cost -- Most likely the Evo 4G will be more expensive than the Nexus One

    2) Android interface preferences (SenseUI vs vanilla Android) -- people claim that you can simply "disable" SenseUI, but in fact SenseUI is very tightly integrated into Android to the extent that disabling SenseUI won't make the phone behave the same as a vanilla Android phone

    3) Device standardization -- Nexus One has the potential to be a standard in that it exists for multiple US carriers (T-Mobile, AT&T, Sprint). This is nice for accessories and increases the likelihood of long-term support.

    4) Device openness -- Like other recent HTC Android phones, Evo 4G will likely be locked down a fair amount, requiring a bit of hacking to root the device. The Nexus One on the other hand was designed to be open and imposes no such restrictions.

    5) Software updates -- This is perhaps the most important reason to choose a Nexus One over the Evo 4G. One only needs to look at the suffering HTC Hero users to see how painfully slow carriers are to update their phones. With Google in control of Android and able to focus on the Nexus One, you're probably in a much better situation. It is possible to root your HTC Hero and update it using a 3rd party ROM, but that's hardly ideal and may be impractical for the Evo 4G. HTC modified Android to add WiMax support so you'd have to be sure that any 3rd party ROMs would properly integrate WiMax support, so in reality you're going to be depending on HTC *and* the carrier until the WiMax code is merged into upstream Android.
  • Monk-le
    Thus far the EVO is going to blow everything out of the water. Apple's next phone has get to meet or exceed the EVO, other wise this may actually be... Dare I say, the iPhone killer.
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