Kogan’s Agora, slated to launch in just a couple of weeks, will be delayed indefinitely. In an interview with Australian publication, The Age, founder Ruslan Kogan said the handsets need to be redesigned “to ensure…compatibility with all future Android applications”.
One of Kogan’s main concerns centers around developers creating “applications for the Android operating system at a higher resolution and screen size than the Agora provides in its current form.” I’m not entirely sure what that means, but Kogan has pulled the Agora right after a meeting the company had with Google. He didn’t comment on the contents of the meeting citing a non-disclosure agreement.
It’s too bad. Kogan’s Agora and Agora Pro handsets would have been the second commercially available Android-based phones after the T-Mobile G1. The company even had a working prototype being displayed just last week at CES, but given the unexpected product pull I’m wondering if some major updates are coming to Android soon. Android’s Cupcake development branch offers a bunch of application enhancements and is expected to merge with Android’s main roadmap this month. Could this be the issue?
If you’ve pre-ordered an Agora, refund information is here.
