If you’re looking forward to a Google Android phone, your wait is going to be a tad bit longer. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google Android handsets will not be available until sometime in the fourth quarter and even that date is a bit of a stretch for some manufacturers. Some carriers and application developers are having a hard time meeting even that schedule. Carriers such as Sprint and China Mobile will probably not be able to launch Android phones this year although T-Mobile still claims that they will deliver a phone by the fourth quarter.

Does this spell trouble for Google’s mobile efforts? Not at all - many of the delays can be traced back to one of a few things including the upcoming launch of the iPhone 3G mobile phone, the fact that Android itself isn’t finished, and the sheer fact that developers have to deal with a whole new platform SDK. The real question won’t be whether handset manufacturers and carriers support Android - it’ll be whether consumers and business adopt Android based handsets.

[Check it out via News.com]

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