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Will we Legend get Android 2.2 (Froyo) update?
Here are the platform highlights. very good improvements
http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-2.2-highlights.html
Latest news from HTC (thanks to Iryia ) :
Iryia said:
Hi guys,
I just received a reply from HTC..
"Good Morning Thank you for contacting HTC At the moment we dont have official date of the relase for the new update but it is suitable for your device and soon or later it will be relased for Legend Regards Piotr HTC "
At least some good news..
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Yes, we will, its just a question of when!
HTC will have to apply their 'modifications' to it, i.e. Sense.
Then if yours is network branded, you have to wait until your network make it available to you, after they've made their changes!
Unless of course you've rooted, which case you should be able to apply a fresh ROM whenever it is made available.
I believe the above is correct, am sure someone will correct me if needed.
What I'm wondering is will FROYO make a different to the speed of the Legend? There are many reports online about how FROYO will make the Nexus One and Desire up to 300% faster due to the JIT Compiler (and other stuff?) ...but is this potential speed benefit applicable to the Legend?
I really really hope so...
c_man said:
Yes, we will, its just a question of when!
HTC will have to apply their 'modifications' to it, i.e. Sense.
Then if yours is network branded, you have to wait until your network make it available to you, after they've made their changes!
Unless of course you've rooted, which case you should be able to apply a fresh ROM whenever it is made available.
I believe the above is correct, am sure someone will correct me if needed.
What I'm wondering is will FROYO make a different to the speed of the Legend? There are many reports online about how FROYO will make the Nexus One and Desire up to 300% faster due to the JIT Compiler (and other stuff?) ...but is this potential speed benefit applicable to the Legend?
I really really hope so...
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HTC LEGEND is not getting 2.2 Update in 2010.
Source -->>URL product-reviews.net/2010/05/21/android-2-2-froyo-no-update-to-htc-hero-legend-and-droid-eris-phones
Following on from our previous article, which informed you about HTC’s plans to update their smartphones to the latest version of Android OS (2.2 Froyo), it seems that HTC deliberately left a few handset names off their initial upgrade list.
HTC issued a fresh statement, in which they detailed a few handsets that will be receiving the update to Android 2.2 first. These included the HTC Incredible, MyTouch 3G, HTC Desire and the HTC EVO 4G smartphone.
Does this mean that handsets such as the HTC Hero, Legend and Droid Eris will not be getting the update to 2.2 Froyo? We can understand the Hero and Droid Eris not being included on the list, since they were released a while ago now, but what about the HTC Legend?
The Legend was available after the HTC Desire, so it seems slightly odd that the statement from HTC didn’t include the handset on the list. Maybe it was just a bad choice of wording. Hopefully HTC will clear this up for us soon – we’ll update you when we can.
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HTC Legend probably get Android 2.2 (FROYO) update because is launched this year,see here:
http://www.androidcentral.com/most-2010-htc-android-phones-will-get-froyo-2010
I really hope it does get updated, the whole reason I upgraded to legend and not desire was A. the industrial design of the phone, and B. sick of waiting around for 2.1 GSM hero update so gave the hero to GF.
Even after this statement im seeing a pattern here with HTC not clearly being able to state weather or not brand new phones will receive an update, or hell even when (2nd half of 2010 can mean December). If it does turn out our Legends dont get 2.2 I'm gonna stick with vanilla android experience on an unlocked N1, or hopefully N2.
I dont think that HTC will update Legend to 2.2.
Considering its RAM and processor Legend is behind from N1 and Desire or incredible.
Even i have Legend and its utterly dissapointing from the side of HTC to ignore such a high profile handset from new update.I ll never buy any handset from HTC now onwards.
F*** u HTC......
Froyo for Legend
I bought the legend some time ago. It would be a major dissappointment if HTC doesn`t create an update for it...let`s be realistic the amount of work they have to do once they change stuff to work on the Desire should be fairly minimal. Also I don`t think that the HW of Legend is not good enough to run Froyo (from what I`ve heart all devices should see a performance boost and the ROM itself should be smaller). Anyway we`ll see how it goes ). Worst case is that everybody will root their legends and flash it over and over again with unstable roms until it becomes an aluminium brick going back to HTC for replacement )
tbh if the mytouch slide is getting update i see no reason why they shouldn't update the legend either
the my touch has :
320x480 screen
600mhz cpu (same as legend i believe)
387mb ram
512mb rom
so spec wise its very similar to legend so its got nothing to do with the lack of snapdragon or screen res.
and tbh all devices even 1st gen should get an update for 1 very big reason JIT!
it will make everything faster.
really there is no reason not to update the legend
if all of us email them they might give an update let the legend 2.2 outcry begin!
noobdeagle said:
tbh if the mytouch slide is getting update i see no reason why they shouldn't update the legend either
the my touch has :
320x480 screen
600mhz cpu (same as legend i believe)
387mb ram
512mb rom
so spec wise its very similar to legend so its got nothing to do with the lack of snapdragon or screen res.
and tbh all devices even 1st gen should get an update for 1 very big reason JIT!
it will make everything faster.
really there is no reason not to update the legend
if all of us email them they might give an update let the legend 2.2 outcry begin!
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However that phone has the Espresso ver of Sense not the reg one.
Ace42 said:
However that phone has the Espresso ver of Sense not the reg one.
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why should the sense version matter ? either way they have to update sense on all the models to support the new 2.2 features for example why not just resize the desire one which is essentially the same as the legend minus the live wallpaper support
either way im sure 2.2 will popup in other non official roms
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However that phone has the Espresso ver of Sense not the reg one.
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people forget about the specs these are not comparable to win xp & then vista & then win 7, these are not resource hungry, I reckon its handset selling gimmicks of HTC, i have fallen victim to it; i have sold my hero & bought LEGEND; now i suppose history is going to repeat itself on legend. this time wait is going to be for FROYO.
New article found now:
http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/33238/htc-phones-android-os-updates
i think we have update
Pff I bought the Legend in stead of the desire because I thought it would have better support on forums and from HTC (since it was the succesor to Hero) bad mistake, really hope we get the update, but I'm not really counting on it.
There is no reason why Legend shouldn't get the update...the specs are surelly enought. No need to panic guys....i mean even if there will be no official rom with 2.2 rom (which i trully doubt) there will be plenty of rooted roms available.
Let's just wait and see.
just wait n watch what HTC does. If they release 2.2 for Legend then is well gud otherwise HTC will loose its credibility..........
Update to froyo for htc legend is clearly 100% sure come on guys! It's sure because it's a phone tha has 2-3 months of life! It's sure htc will update it. The problem is when...even if I don't understand where is the difficulty to upgrade from 2.1 to 2.2, it seems very simple, in fact google will update n1 in the next 2 weeks...I don't think the senseUI is so hard to update, considering that this upgrade is not revolutionary! The very cool features of froyo are simple to add to a device working on 2.1. So HTC move your ass and make this upgrade available for max september. If we will not have the upgrade for september will be really bad for a company like HTC that wants to fight against apple. So please make your engineers work hard to give us this upgrade quickly, considering it's also quite simple to do it.
you are absolutely right mate. legend has the power to run it. also Froyo has been built for more speed and stability. So unless HTC dont want to upgrade it for its marketing reasons, we ll have Froyo running on our legends.
nickporwal said:
you are absolutely right mate. legend has the power to run it. also Froyo has been built for more speed and stability. So unless HTC dont want to upgrade it for its marketing reasons, we ll have Froyo running on our legends.
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I had a diamond 2 before the legend, and ii OS was windows mobile 6.1. HTC made available the 6.5 upgrade for free, so I can't imagine this time will do different. So it's only matter of time, and we all hope max 2-3 months from now it's enough.
Froyo (pre-rooted) out for the Nexus
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=686631
This german article says:
Legend will get the 2.2 update.
"in the second half 2010"
Good afternoon everyone. Does the HTC Wildfire will be as desired Froyo? It would be fantastic...
So, nobody knows if the Froyo (Android 2.2) will equip the Wildfire?
As every review says, it won't. It will be 2.1 Android. And I heard some saying Froyo requires ARMv7 processor architecture and Wildfire has ARMv6. So...
And why do ya need this Froyo? So nifty features of Android 2.2?
Root it and create a custom rom with froyo (it's not realy tht simple but owell..)
with custom toms on the hero it can run froyo ad the wildfire is slightly faster than hero soo it should be able to run
Maybe...
I read about that possibility here:
The HTC Desire will be among the first batch of HTC phones to get an Android Froyo update. The Taiwanese handset slinger has confirmed that it and US phones like the HTC Droid Incredible and HTC Evo 4G are in line for the icy upgrade. But others like the HTC Legend don’t get a name check…
In an official statement HTC says: “If your phone was launched this year, we will most likely offer an upgrade for it to the Froyo version.” The statement then names the HTC Desire as among the initial chosen ones.
Other Android-packing HTC smarties like the HTC Legend and HTC Wildfire could still be in luck. The statement continues: “We will announce a full list of phones and dates once we are closer to launching the upgrades.”
The statement foes on to note that HTC is working with Google and other partners to make sure that the HTC Sense UI plays nice with Android Froyo.
The long-delayed HTC Hero Android upgrade is apparently down to the difficulties of integrating Sense so we’ve got our fingers crossed that mixing it up with Froyo is a little easier.
HTC says its hopeful that all the Android 2.2 upgrades will be completed in the second half of this year. Let us know what phone and version of Android you’re currently toting.
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http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2010/0...froyo-update-promised-other-phones-to-follow/
Well, Froyo is confirmed on Wildfire...:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/htc-expect-desire-legend-and-wildfire-to-get-froyo-beginning/
Obelixossauro said:
Well, Froyo is confirmed on Wildfire...:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/htc-expect-desire-legend-and-wildfire-to-get-froyo-beginning/
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So true and So BEAUTIFUL!
I'm a proud htc desire owner but my girlfriend bought wildfire (in exchange for her hd mini) Terrific news tbh!
will the wilfire be getting flash 10.1?
(as now it is confirmed for froyo)
I do not have this information, but soon, I hope, someone will give the explanation.
Obelixossauro said:
I do not have this information, but soon, I hope, someone will give the explanation.
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And?...
roumor says 15 september
rolks said:
roumor says 15 september
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I Wish...
I Wish...
Have read this indeed as date for Virgin UK customers.....for sure they will not update every-body at same time......
Will get my Wildfire coming Monday 13th......curious if it has the upgrade already...
i have a xperia x10 but bought a wildfire yesterday to play with, i must admit i like it more than the x10. this has MT and flash support on the browser.
Cant wait for CM6 or ota 2.2
Support HTC Wildfire Campaign
Are you are as fed up as me and countless other HTC Wildfire owners, waiting for the Froyo 2.2 update that is always coming but never gets here? I have a campaign running on my blog to demand a solid answer from HTC. As it stands HTC won't confirm or deny anything concerning this topic. Fair enough, they might be delayed and that would be forgiveable if they could at least be up front and reassure us that we will be getting the update, just a couple of months late. Please vote on my poll or add a comment. I am particularly interested in any responses you may have had from HTC in regards to this. Help to lobby HTC.
You can find the poll at: 'HTC Wildfire Android Heaven' (I am not allowed to post the url at the moment)
I wish they would hurry the **** with it tbh...
Frank C said:
Have read this indeed as date for Virgin UK customers.....for sure they will not update every-body at same time......
Will get my Wildfire coming Monday 13th......curious if it has the upgrade already...
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Still no Froyo
wish they'd hurry the fack up
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Still no Froyo
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please sign it
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/froyolegend/
Done, but what your strategy for notifying HTC of this?
Perhaps once we have over 50 signatures, we can all send HTC an email with a link to the petition?
meh isnt froyo confirmed for the legend?
just be patient <.<
Froyo is coming in Q3 for HTC Legend
http://www.androidworld.nl/32548/htc-desire-legend-en-wildfire-krijgen-froyo-in-begin-q3/
It's in dutch, sorry but that's the article i read about it.
The headline states that the HTC Desire, Legend and Wildfire get Froyo at the beggining of Q3
Confirmed? They told were working on updating legend, desire and wildfire on Q3, only desire received froyo and I heard nothing more about legend except the twitter from htc singapore that told it will not be possible to port froyo. I made the petition only to have enough signs to let htc know when/if needed, I agree that at present we have to wait and see what happens
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I believe the froyo update is comming to the legend just be patient.
I signed it anyway just to let them know we want it.
Just be patient people,it will come soon enough
I signed it also by the way
Be patient HTC are not going to upgrade all Phone models at the same time incase of any unforseen technical problems.
They did the desire last weekend, which they class as there flagship device, I am hoping the legend gets the update this weekend or next
Desire indeed had the update:
http://htcpedia.com/news/985.html
Now it's only a matter of time..
The Desire has very similar specs to the nexus, maybe the Legend version is still in development and they're encountering technical issues, who knows? They told nothing about us after the update on the desire and we risk to have to wait as much as the Hero owners had to do to before having eclair...
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signed. for fun i posted the link on HTC Legend's facebookpage, before i posted it there was 36 signs, let's see how many there is in 24 hours
I wont sign it. Becouse froyo for legend is already confirmed. HTC desire got it first Becouse its the flagship of HTC. HTC legend will be next. Mark moons the country manager of the benelux (netherlands Belgium and Luxembourg) posted a message on Twitter that froyo for desire was out and that he had to wait a little bit more Becouse he is using an legend.
So we also need to wait a little bit more.
Be patient well get it before Christmas.
And I think well get it in a month.
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kleutscher said:
Be patient well get it before Christmas.
And I think well get it in a month.
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Before Christmas ? In a month ? Either you celebrate Christmas in September or you are patient enough to give HTC a window of almost 5 months ?????
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Before Christmas ? In a month ? Either you celebrate Christmas in September or you are patient enough to give HTC a window of almost 5 months ?????
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probably he means that we will get it the latest before Christmas but maybe if we are lucky we could get it faster, in a month.
HTC said that they wanted.to have released froyo for the desire legend and wildfire before Christmas.
And I think we will see or hear something about froyo for the legend within a month time.
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Why I think well get to hear or see froyo within a month is still a guess. But when mark moons says he has to wait a little bit more. Then it won't be months of waiting.
Froyo with sense is already fitted for desire so it won't be months of work to fit it for the legend. The legend is the next best phone after the desire so ill think legend will get it before the wildfire.
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I guess that Mark Moons can easily afford the purchase of a desire or maybe he can have it for free, frankly I really doubt that a country manager of htc has ONLY a Legend and is waiting for froyo, perhaps he wait for it by using another terminal that already got the update
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I think he can afford one. But does he want one for daily use. The legend is a much better business phone then the desire. And why would a HTC country manager use an unstable build on a daily phone if there is one.
I think his daily phone is a bit to important to use as a test phone. It's still a guess well see
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@kleutscher: why is the Legend a better business phone than the Desire?
So i E-mailed HTC yesterday again..they said the same thing..'we can not give information rather the HTC Legend will be upgraded to 2.2'
I don't know what that is suppose to mean..but ah
Is wildfire getting the new sense ui v3.0 ?
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Probably not.
The Sense 3.0 UI is on Wildfire S because the S has a more powerful processor and GPU.
Officially, certainly not. Unofficially, danne_jo, te creator of Wildpuzzle ported the new Sense but unfortunately it doesnt work. The view is that the new Sense requires a newer processor than what the Wildfire has. Still, this is unconfirmed though.
The new sense is made for more recent hardware, but it can denfinily work on our wildfires. The hardware is just OK.
The current Sense on the wildfire is slow and sluggish.
I don't see the new and graphically improved one running any better,
can be port? wildfire s have that. I thınk sense 3.0 work on our wildfires they have enough hardware.
time to get a new phone methinks!
maybe on wildfire s, but probably not on our wildfire
i don't think there will be official one since wildfire s launch. the old phone still compete with new gen wildfire will be bad idea for a company.
pray that danne_jo will give us brighter hope.
radittios said:
maybe on wildfire s, but probably not on our wildfire
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Wildfire S has already the new Sense.
do you think the desire z will get an official update to sense 3.0?
Probably will not becouse our ram is not 768mb like desire s.
are we still in the 18 months for updates though?
But this is Sense UI so HTC has no obligation to give a 3.0 update, but I hope and believe they will give us an update like Desire S too
donno
HTC's new entry level phone, Explorer will have 384 Mb of RAM.
It is coming with Sense 3.5, which could be higher in version number yet weaker in features, but if not so, memory may not be an issue.
There are ports, well, ROMs with sense 3.0 and the phone copes with it quite well.
Not the smoothest, but what the heck.
Noone knows if HTC will give a damn about bringing Sense 3.0 to DZ.
But Exproler doesn't even have the 3D page scrolling feature
Surelywe shouldget some for of anupdate with the 18 month dealio with google. Perhaps icecreamsandwich?
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moolash said:
HTC's new entry level phone, Explorer will have 384 Mb of RAM.
It is coming with Sense 3.5, which could be higher in version number yet weaker in features, but if not so, memory may not be an issue.
There are ports, well, ROMs with sense 3.0 and the phone copes with it quite well.
Not the smoothest, but what the heck.
Noone knows if HTC will give a damn about bringing Sense 3.0 to DZ.
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correction, the explorer will have 512mb of ram
http://www.phonearena.com/phones/HTC-Explorer_id6011
HTC Turkey mentioned a few weeks ago that desire z will receive a sense 3.0 update with android 2.3.5
Here is a list of mentioned phones from htc turkey:
1. Incredible S
2. Desire S
3. Wildfire S
4. Desire HD
5. Desire Z
It is pretty safe that this phones will get a sense 3.0 with android 2.3.5 update soon.
lets hope so anyway!
mrx1983 said:
HTC Turkey mentioned a few weeks ago that desire z will receive a sense 3.0 update with android 2.3.5
Here is a list of mentioned phones from htc turkey:
1. Incredible S
2. Desire S
3. Wildfire S
4. Desire HD
5. Desire Z
It is pretty safe that this phones will get a sense 3.0 with android 2.3.5 update soon.
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Soon it's too late! Come on HTC!
._.-*Sent from my HTC Desire Z using Tapatalk Pro*-._.
What if it's Turkey only ?
nolodo said:
What if it's Turkey only ?
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What else? ROM chefs to the rescue
I'd love to see an update, though I hope HTC will do it properly this time and Sense won't be restarting all the time.
Or maybe we'll get Sense 3.5 with ICS? That'd be awesome.
I don't think so. Sense launcher restart all the time after 2.3.3(with Sense 2.1). Sense 3.0 use more RAM than Sense 2.1.
If that update with Sense 3.5 will be nice.
Seein as there was that deal with google and 18 months, i think we will get ICS, and probably sense 3.5, as our devices would handle it.
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Good news for all Desire Z owners.
In the last weeks it got still about a sense 3.0 update.
On a question regarding a sense 3.0 update you got everytime the same answer, that they didn't know anything.
today that changed completely.
HTC DACH indirectly announced that something will come to the desire z.
On a question regarding the Sense 3.0 Update for the Desire Z they said:
"Noch ein wenig Geduld bitte. Ich glaube das lohnt sich, ohne zu viel verraten zu wollen "
That means in english:
"A little more patience please. I think it's worth it. Without revealing to much "
I think a update is now very likely.
Maybe even a Sense 3.5 Update.
Lets wait and see
In its official blog, HTC removed from the list of applicants for renewal Desire Z.
Technically Desire Z is capable of supporting Android 4.x easily.
The problem may occur only with the support of corporate interface Sense.
I use a custom ROM with Sense 3.5. Sense 3.5 uses about 70 Mb of RAM. (For comparison, Sehse 2.x uses about 30Mb).
In Memory of Desire Z is not enough to support multi-tasking with Sense 3.5. Solves the problem swap only.
But HTC promised to have declared, and update their devices during the time. This time has not expired for Desire Z. To fulfill its promise of support, HTC would have to develop a special version of Sense for Desire Z. It seems that now they decide that it would cost them less: development Update for Desire Z or the promise of non-support.
Let's see what will come from HTC to the Z. Till then I'm very happy with Virtuous team Trentacinque Beta 2 rom, Sense 3.5 running fine with swap.
Antkoz said:
In its official blog, HTC removed from the list of applicants for renewal Desire Z.
Technically Desire Z is capable of supporting Android 4.x easily.
The problem may occur only with the support of corporate interface Sense.
I use a custom ROM with Sense 3.5. Sense 3.5 uses about 70 Mb of RAM. (For comparison, Sehse 2.x uses about 30Mb).
In Memory of Desire Z is not enough to support multi-tasking with Sense 3.5. Solves the problem swap only.
But HTC promised to have declared, and update their devices during the time. This time has not expired for Desire Z. To fulfill its promise of support, HTC would have to develop a special version of Sense for Desire Z. It seems that now they decide that it would cost them less: development Update for Desire Z or the promise of non-support.
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On the other hand, we have the HTC Explorer with 512MB RAM, which also has Sense 3.5. So I guess HTC will develop a "lite" version of Sense 3.5 for budget devices.
Antkoz said:
In its official blog, HTC removed from the list of applicants for renewal Desire Z.
Technically Desire Z is capable of supporting Android 4.x easily.
The problem may occur only with the support of corporate interface Sense.
I use a custom ROM with Sense 3.5. Sense 3.5 uses about 70 Mb of RAM. (For comparison, Sehse 2.x uses about 30Mb).
In Memory of Desire Z is not enough to support multi-tasking with Sense 3.5. Solves the problem swap only.
But HTC promised to have declared, and update their devices during the time. This time has not expired for Desire Z. To fulfill its promise of support, HTC would have to develop a special version of Sense for Desire Z. It seems that now they decide that it would cost them less: development Update for Desire Z or the promise of non-support.
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Did you read this from there? https://plus.google.com/105502178297258827378/posts I think this person is just a liar, he claims that he is working in HTC Sense developer team but has no proof and HTC developers never draw information like this, so there is no reason to believe him for me
mrx1983 said:
Good news for all Desire Z owners.
In the last weeks it got still about a sense 3.0 update.
On a question regarding a sense 3.0 update you got everytime the same answer, that they didn't know anything.
today that changed completely.
HTC DACH indirectly announced that something will come to the desire z.
On a question regarding the Sense 3.0 Update for the Desire Z they said:
"Noch ein wenig Geduld bitte. Ich glaube das lohnt sich, ohne zu viel verraten zu wollen "
That means in english:
"A little more patience please. I think it's worth it. Without revealing to much "
I think a update is now very likely.
Maybe even a Sense 3.5 Update.
Lets wait and see
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That's great! I have just talked with HTC Turkey too and they whispered to me that HTC is going to make a big announcement towards to the end of November to make everything clear about ICS and Sense UI updates