Kansas City's tie to Google Android, so far

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Sprint is still a piece of crap. It has been failing for years and will continue to do so. Improvments are expected as they really cant do any worse. Enjoy your layoffs. KC will be fine with out you.

Assuming you synch your contacts and your calendar to Google apps, you can use any OS - Mac, Linux, BeOS, even Windows I hear.

No desktop synch at all.

App install is all OTA.

Not sure about USB Mass Storage mode for copying files.

I am looking forward to see what sort of third party software applications are able to be built on the Android platform. With phones of this caliber there are usually alot of possibilities, look at the competition, like the iPhone, the Instinct, any Blackberry device, these things are becoming WAAAAY more than just communications devices, and its very impressive. My only question, which I haven't really found solid answers to is Mac OS X compatability, does anyone have any info on it?

but you're hating.

I currently live in Beverly Hills, CA and I am originally from Overland Park, KS. First off, dont bash Overland Park if you have never been there. Great schools, great economy, rated in top 10 best places to live, top 10 middle class cities in the nation. One of the highest graduate rates in the US. Not a hole lot you can say about Overland Park now is there? Gangs, guns, murders, that stuff happens anywhere and be sure not to mistake Kansas City with Overland Park next time. Every city has there own skid row and you east coast junkies probably know that better than any of us do. Oh, and by the way the talent at Sprint is incredible. They have the largest fyber optic facility in the world and are spear heading the new 5G technology. In other words you AT&T whores working on 3G need to contact your service provider and tell them whats up. So like i said HATERS NOT WELCOME.

If Kansas companies suck so much, how is it that Sprint managed to buy Nextel and not the other way around? Hmmm.

Overland Park is the hood? Really? Pretty sure you've never been here. KCMO, yes. OP, not so much.

Believe me, nobody in their right mind moves to KC for a job unless its the last straw. Employees actually left their job to get out of here. If I had the chance I'd get out of this hill-billy state of big-heads.

Oh yeah if Sprint closes KC is going to turn into more of a ghetto than it already is and the world will stop spinning too. The poster is right you people are arrogant. get over yourself KC will be just fine with out you. I think I remember reading an article about how you had the most muders for a month of any US state in August. Yeah OP is a real nice place to live if you enjoy dodging bullets and getting robbed.
Nice try-

Clearly "Anonymous" is not from the area. Yeah, let's move the headquarters and watch the local economy fall flat on its face, you frick'n idiot. They are in this thing called a lease in Overland Park which they have to pay for regardless if they are there or not. Also, "Talent" will follow the work. If there is work in Kansas City, the "talent" will come to Kansas City to work.

What does this have to do with this article? Oh yeah, that is right, you just copy and paste this exact post into every article about Sprint. Quit trolling, either say something related to the article or don't post. Trolling news artiles just makes you look like an idiot and only serves to annoy people looking for an actual discussion of the issues in the article.

Now, as for the article- I think it is great that we have another company in Kansas City that is embracing Android. Having a truly open-ended mobile platform is a huge step for the future of mobile devices. Am I saying Android will take over? No, who knows, but it will definately pave the way for the future of this market.

Finally, let me say this-

Before someone gets on my case for bashing the troll, understand that I am not on Sprint's payroll and am not a Sprint customer, a T-Mobile customer to be precise. Every company has good and bad people in it, I've had some REALLY bad experiences with AT&T and T-Mobile and will be jumping ship to either Sprint or Verizon as soon as my contract is up.

You've betrayed the fact that you're a bitter, laid-off, Reston-based employee from the old Nextel HQ with this comment. Yeah, it really sucks to live in Overland Park, with affordable housing and great free public schools. I'm sorry if your bias against the midwest keeps you away from here, but that's really your problem.

Sprint (and its prior iterations, United Telecom and so forth) have ALWAYS been based in Kansas. They've been in business for over 100 years, so it doesn't seem to be hurting them.

Garmin, based in Olathe, of all places, attracts excellent tech talent from all over the world. Kansas HQ doesn't seem to be hurting them any.

I love that brash, East Coast-centric arrogance. If Kansas (City) sucks so much and is so irrelevant, why are you on the Kansas City Star blog boards? Kind of disproving your own point, aren't you?

Typical sprint arrogance, blame everyone but yourself. What a buch of dysfunctional deadbeats. My best guess is Sprint would do much better if it was able to tap better talent. A company is only as good as the people that work for it. Sprint needs to attract better talent pure and simple and being in Kansas severely limits their choices. If Sprint wants make it to the next chapter they should seriously consider moving the HQ to a more suitable place.

Sprint has layoffs every year, some times twice a year and nothing ever changes there. It must be nice to goto work and hope the doors arent chained or if there is a pink slip waiting for you. Sprint is such a poorly run company no one ever feels safe there.

It's the same person who cuts and pastes this in all Sprint articles. And the person who always brings up non-American citizen IT Sprint employees. Just ignore them. We all do.

Yeah, it's really a sign of how much Sprint sucks that there may be layoffs as we enter a DEPRESSION.

What on earth does this have to do with the story? Do you troll the site looking for places to post random negative comments? Get over it already.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The weakening economy is having an impact on Sprint Nextel Corp., based in Overland Park, Kan.

A spokeswoman for the communications company said that there have been layoffs already and gradual layoffs will continue as Sprint tries to streamline its operations. She did not release the number of jobs affected.

Not to mention the IT jobs he is sending to over seas and to Canada.