Sprint Launches Support for Android on Sprint Developer Web Site.

Sprint Developer Conference to Feature Extensive Information for

Creating Applications on the An open platform for cellphones from the Open Handset Alliance (OHA). Based on Linux, Android includes a library of Java classes for building mobile applications.<br><b>Android and GPhone</b> [TM] Platform

<BR> HTC HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) Component
HTC High Tech Computer Corp (Taiwan, China)
HTC Hennepin Technical College (Minnesota)
HTC High-Throughput Computing  to Seed Developers with HTC Hero[TM] Devices at the Sprint

Developer Conference

Google to Address Attendees at Sprint Developer Conference on Oct.

28

[TM] Overland Park, city (1990 pop. 111,790), Johnson co., NE Kans., a residential suburb of Kansas City. Inc. 1960. There is printing and publishing. The manufacture of apparel, aircraft parts, cement, prepared foods, salt, chemicals, marine accessories. Signs. , Kan. —. Sprint ([TM] NYSE
See: New York Stock Exchange :S) announced today several

additions to its Application Developer Web site —

http://developer.sprint.com/android —. Designed to give developers the

tools needed to create innovative applications for Android-powered

devices. The updated site will include:

* Implementation information for Sprint’s Android-powered

devices.

* Sprint network and product services ([TM] See mobile positioning. ,

messaging, Geofence and more) available through the Sprint Developer

[TM] A restricted environment in which certain functions are prohibited. For example, deleting files and modifying system information such as Registry settings and other control panel functions may be prohibited. .

Developers utilizing the site and tools will easily be able to

create and test applications for the Android platform on the Sprint

network. The enhanced Web site will include information about

Sprint’s Android-powered devices and will feature compelling

applications that are available in Android Market[TM].

In addition, the Sprint Open Developer Conference, Oct. 26-28 in

[TM] Santa Clara, city, Cuba
Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif., will include several sessions dedicated to Android

development including information from HTC and Google[TM]. The event is

Sprint’s ninth annual developer conference. This year marks the

first year the conference is open to the entire developer community.

Developers should register at http://developer.sprint.com/devcon2009.

The Sprint Developer Conference will provide compelling and useful

tools that attendees can use immediately to develop applications,

content, machine-to-machine devices and unified communication solutions

relevant to the market. Developers will learn about current Sprint

capabilities across devices, networks and platforms.

“Sprint continues to demonstrate its leadership in providing

an open environment for developers to create and bring to market

innovative applications for business users and consumers,”. Said Len

Barlik, vice president of wireless and wireline services for Sprint.

“With robust Android support on our application developer Web site

and the upcoming launch of HTC Hero, Sprint has opened the door for

developers to create Android applications that take advantage of the

speed and reliability of the Now Network.”

HTC premiere sponsor of the Sprint Developer Conference

HTC and Sprint will give developers at the Sprint Developer

Conference the opportunity to be among the first to own a HTC Hero. The

first 400 developers to arrive at the HTC coding lab on Oct. 26 will

receive a HTC Hero with one month of Sprint service. To qualify,

developers need to show their Same as laptop computer. <hr><br><b>laptop</b> – portable computer  with the Android development

environment (1.5) installed and ready for the hands-on lab session. HTC

will give away a number of additional HTC Hero devices at its booth

throughout the conference. To be eligible to participate in the HTC

coding lab and receive a HTC Hero, participants must register to attend

the Sprint Developer Conference at

http://developer.sprint.com/devcon2009.

<BR> During its evening coding lab, HTC is teaming with Mark Murphy is the name of two American Football safeties, an ice hockey player, a singer, a Landscape Architect and a philosopher.

• Mark Murphy (philosopher) –. Georgetown University philosophy professor
• Mark Murphy (singer)- A jazz singer

 of

CommonsWare to lead an Android platform training session. Murphy has

published three guides on Android development and writes the

“Building ‘Droids”. Column for AndroidGuys and the

“Android Angle”. Column for NetworkWorld. He's more than 25

years of application development experience and has delivered conference

presentations and training sessions on a wide array of topics

internationally.

Google participation

Google will be a featured presenter at the Sprint Developer

Conference. Android team members and technical subject matter experts

from Google will lead developers in an in-depth technical discussion

from 8:30 –. 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 28. The day will start with an

update on Android and Android Market, followed by the technical session,

led by developers on the Android team at Google, which will include an

introductory discussion about the Android platform, how to write Android

applications and sharing best practices.

Mobile content and applications on Sprint

Sprint is committed to offering mobile content and applications to

its customers when, where and how they want them:

* Sprint customers enjoy full <b>HTML</b><br> in full <b>HyperText Markup Language</b><br>Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web.  browsing on their phones, with

Google as their search provider, experience [TM] per·son·al·ize  <br><i>tr.v.</i> <b>per·son·al·ized</b>, <b>per·son·al·iz·ing</b>, <b>per·son·al·iz·es</b><br><b>1. </b> To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner.<br><b>2. </b> To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify.  Web browsing

with Sprint Web and can choose to download name-brand apps and services

from the Internet – other carriers may limit applications to those

sanctioned by the carrier.

<BR> * More than 300 different non-Sprint-branded devices, from

machine-to-machine to telemetry
Highly automated communications process by which data are collected from instruments located at remote or inaccessible points and transmitted to receiving equipment for measurement, monitoring, display. Recording. , operate on the Sprint network through a

widely respected device certification process.

* Sprint is a member of the [TM] An organization founded in 2007 by Google, T-Mobile, QUALCOMM, Motorola and others that sponsors and promotes the Android open mobile phone platform. Based on Linux, Android was developed to compete with all cellphone platforms including Windows Mobile and Apple’s iPhone by offering an [TM], along with

more than 30 other participating companies, supporting the free and open

mobile applications platform named Android.

About [TM] Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE: S) is one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world. With 55 million subscribers, Sprint Nextel operates the third largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States (based on total wireless customers), behind  

Sprint Nextel offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline

communications services bringing the freedom of mobility to consumers,

businesses and government users. Sprint Nextel is widely recognized for

developing, engineering and deploying innovative technologies, including

two wireless networks serving almost 49 million customers at the end of

the second quarter of 2009. Industry-leading mobile data services;

instant national and international push-to-talk capabilities. A

global Tier 1 [TM] (communications, networking) Internet backbone –. High-speed networks that carry Internet traffic.
These communications networks are provided by companies such as AT&T, GTE, IBM, MCI, Netcom, Sprint, UUNET and consist of high-speed links in the T1, T3, OC1 and OC3 ranges. . The company’s customer-focused

strategy has led to improved first call resolution and customer care

satisfaction scores. For more information, visit www.sprint.com.

Android, Android Market, Google, Open Handset Alliance are

trademarks of Google Inc.