Hasta La Gadget!

Sprint announced in a forum post that it still plans to meet its self-imposed Q2 2010 deadline for Android 2.1 updates to the Samsung Moment and HTC Hero, after working closely with Samsung and HTC on an issue Sprint “hoped to have resolved by now.”

Sprint originally announced the upgrade back in December. Then the carrier sort-of-delayed it a few months later–which I wrote about in a post that got me in some trouble with (otherwise very nice) Sprint representatives at the time, for exaggerating the meaning of the word “delay.”

Now it appears we’re… still waiting anyway. All told, it’s going to be worth the trouble; Android 2.1 is a significant jump over the original 1.6 OS, and should include free Google Maps Navigation, among other new features.

I just wish these upgrades came more easily, and didn’t require the carriers to treat them as if they were approving a handset for their networks all over again from scratch. Many folks consider these things computers now, and not fixed electronics like microwaves. If smartphones can install “thousands of apps,” then they should also receive OS updates in a timely manner, just like any other computer.