Gingerbread in July for the Atrix - Atrix 4G General

http://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_atrix_4g_to_taste_gingerbread_update_in_july-news-2815.php
I like the part that says "performance boost"
Lets hope motorola doesn't delay this any longer.

Not only should they not delay it, but when it actually comes out I hope Bell doesn't delay it either! I imagine they have to load their own bloatware onto it?..

addonelam said:
Not only should they not delay it, but when it actually comes out I hope Bell doesn't delay it either! I imagine they have to load their own bloatware onto it?..
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Maybe they have already. the update they released the other day could be a sign

rawfa said:
http://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_atrix_4g_to_taste_gingerbread_update_in_july-news-2815.php
I like the part that says "performance boost"
Lets hope motorola doesn't delay this any longer.
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watched a review of it on the droid x2 and it only leaves like 1xxMB RAM free. LOL. its so crappy (on that phone) i reallllllllllllly hope its different, and more optimized on our phones. a guy said it runs worse than the froyo blur on the droid x2. -_-

The droidx2 has a pathetic 512 MB of ram to begin with. Its a droid X with a dual core processor and a differnt display. That's it.
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Mgamerz said:
The droidx2 has a pathetic 512 MB of ram to begin with. Its a droid X with a dual core processor and a differnt display. That's it.
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oh damn, but still. i didnt know that, but really. sense usually is the "RAM hog" but this seems worse.

Related

DAM looks like we dont qualify for android 3!

According to this:
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/...droid-30-details-hint-at-tablet-potential.ars
You need 1g and 512 of ram, we got 384. Why the hell did sony chose 384 anyway, you would think 512 would be the sweat spot anyway.......
oh well,
I think i messed up, it would have been the better choice to go the desire i reckon. More support, better screen, more ram, a bit more future proof.
well there's already a thread with this issue, but I feel exactly like you do.
I should have chosen for the Desire but tmobile didn't have it in stock so I chose for the X10i but I feel the same way. But if you read the other thread you'll see that the X10 will (probably) be capable of running gingerbread
DAM the same subject as the post right next to yours!
Oh stop whining. Who cares. Enjoy the phone today and stop worrying about this garbage and get a life. WTF is a "sweat spot" anyway lol.
Sounds dirty 0_o
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mootmaina said:
According to this
You need 1g and 512 of ram, we got 384. Why the hell did sony chose 384 anyway, you would think 512 would be the sweat spot anyway.......
oh well,
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U will never be able to purchase anything .
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mootmaina said:
I think i messed up, it would have been the better choice to go the desire i reckon. More support, better screen, more ram, a bit more future proof.
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Ok. Byebye. *Shows you the door to your Desire*
Not as if not having Live Wallpapers in our phones will be a great loss to us.

Froyo's out Gingerbread is in

Well the last craze to get updated to Froyo seems as though it may end up being short lived as I came across this today: http://www.androidcodex.com/gingerb...edium=rss&utm_camp aign=gingerbread-is-coming
2 months for a GB release, then we wait for root (which might be very quick) and/or wait for HTC to Sense-ify GB, then we get it on the Evo. Froyo's got a few months left in it - about as long as Eclair had on the Evo.
Or maybe it will live up to the hype and HTC will leave it alone and just push it without a new UI.
Personally, I can't wait for 3.0. I'm really hoping it comes a lot closer to being as nice looking and easy to use as iOS. I came from an iPhone and loved it, but I love Android a little bit more; I don't know why I like it more, but I do, however, the apps are really ****ty when compared to iOS and the UI is pretty rough in some areas - sense or aosp.
Google really needs to step it up and hire some graphic designers that can't code at all.
Whoot Whoot !!!
bring it on Google
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that's pretty cool. I wonder where they got their sources from though? I really would like to see what kind of UI google puts on gingerbread though. And of course, whether or not motorola/HTC/samsung will still blur/sense/touchwiz it...
SilverZero said:
2 months for a GB release, then we wait for root (which might be very quick) and/or wait for HTC to Sense-ify GB, then we get it on the Evo. Froyo's got a few months left in it - about as long as Eclair had on the Evo.
Or maybe it will live up to the hype and HTC will leave it alone and just push it without a new UI.
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I read from a few places that Gingerbread would do away with 3rd party UI's like Sense. It would have to be pretty fricken sweet to get me away from Froyo Sense. I mean, how much faster could it get?
lee.n.doan said:
that's pretty cool. I wonder where they got their sources from though? I really would like to see what kind of UI google puts on gingerbread though. And of course, whether or not motorola/HTC/samsung will still blur/sense/touchwiz it...
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Moto said blur was pretty much dead -as far as new updates goes- on all of their higher end phones, today.
Where is the source on this article?
very cool, maybe ill finally upgrade from the original htc 2.1 rom to GB when it comes out!
Dang it...I saw no mention of "smoother UI experience". The only thing that really bothers me is how choppy the interface is despite a 1Ghz CPU.
h3nG said:
Dang it...I saw no mention of "smoother UI experience". The only thing that really bothers me is how choppy the interface is despite a 1Ghz CPU.
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More than 30fps will never be part of the evo, htc has said many times that its a HARDWARE limitation, they lied for a reason. To cover their ass. I dont see them exposing their own lie, ever.
TheBiles said:
Where is the source on this article?
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This ^
...Next we'll be seeing threads about how Gingerbread will be released on Monday...
Sounds interesting... can't wait.
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Who says HTC Evo 4g will even get Gingerbread?
dglowe343 said:
I read from a few places that Gingerbread would do away with 3rd party UI's like Sense. It would have to be pretty fricken sweet to get me away from Froyo Sense. I mean, how much faster could it get?
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I think the statement was that Google was aiming for UI that was nice enough to DISCOURAGE manufacturers from layering their own environment over the top, which would hopefully save resources.
But read this.
Plancy said:
Who says HTC Evo 4g will even get Gingerbread?
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Even if we don't get it from HTC (unlikely) with the dev's we have, I'm sure the evo will run gingerbread one way or another... if the g1 can run froyo... anything can happen
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I think the statement was that Google was aiming for UI that was nice enough to DISCOURAGE manufacturers from layering their own environment over the top, which would hopefully save resources.
But read this.
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Hope that's true. I'd hate to see it done away with.
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SilverZero said:
I think the statement was that Google was aiming for UI that was nice enough to DISCOURAGE manufacturers from layering their own environment over the top, which would hopefully save resources.
But read this.
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I did read somewhere that sense was getting an "upgrade" sometime next year. Dont remember where i read this but i remember reading it for sure. I assume this will be for GB.
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Who says HTC Evo 4g will even get Gingerbread?
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Some dev with port it if anything... I don't see why we wouldn't get it. The phone meets the specs and I don't see them abandoning the EVO so quickly.
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This reminds me of all the sourceless articles about Verizon's iPhone launch this January.

T-Mobile G2 with Google, first T-mobile HSPA+ phone

T-Mobile G2 with Google, first HSPA+ phone from T-Mobile.
http://g2.t-mobile.com/
Specs?
Can't wait for the g2. Gonna be hard to give up my NEXUS.
I don;t think the G2 will be the replacement of my N1. According to all the articles that I've read, they say it will be a 800MHz (only speculations at this time) processor and not a +1GHz. If this is true, then I'll wait for the N2.
http://androidspin.com/2010/08/12/rumor-t-mobiles-first-hspa-device-g1-blazehtc-g2/
I dont think its going to be the vision to be honest.
Its pointless to have a phone with scorching web speeds and an inferior processor. Android spin starts more bull**** rumors then anyone anyway.
jcohenlv said:
I dont think its going to be the vision to be honest.
Its pointless to have a phone with scorching web speeds and an inferior processor. Android spin starts more bull**** rumors then anyone anyway.
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This phone will not have anything past 1ghz snapdragons we all know as of right now. The new line isn't coming until the end of the year.
I think I might give up my nexi, I've been dying for a keyboard phone comparable to the nexus one. This may be it.
Not me. I rooted mine when the 1-click root app came out and it gave me more reasons to keep mine. I love it even more! I can't believe i thought of replacing it.
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so now that cyanogen has told us it's a different processor I'm hoping it'll be good. they need to release official specs soon
mcp2009 said:
so now that cyanogen has told us it's a different processor
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A) Link?
B) How would he know?
Paul22000 said:
A) Link?
B) How would he know?
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If you check his twitter account, he posted the details of the processor a couple of days ago. But yeah I think it said between 800mhz-1ghz
sstang2006 said:
I don;t think the G2 will be the replacement of my N1. According to all the articles that I've read, they say it will be a 800MHz (only speculations at this time) processor and not a +1GHz. If this is true, then I'll wait for the N2.
http://androidspin.com/2010/08/12/rumor-t-mobiles-first-hspa-device-g1-blazehtc-g2/
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This is one of those cases where MHz won't matter one bit. The chip has a whole bunch of new features not found on the N1, including many hardware multimedia accelerators. Plus, you really won't notice much of a different with just a 200MHz drop.
With a faster radio, more memory and better hardware acceleration, the CPU speed becomes less important.
I'll upgrade if it offers speedy HD video, HDMI out and more memory as those are the things I'm missing on my N1.
The phone will have the scorpion chip set which equivalent too the snapdragon, but with a better cpu and wvga screen
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It's going to be hard for me to give my Nexus up as well. I'm still trying to weigh my options on whether I should just go ahead and get the G2 or keep my N1. If the screen size is not 4.3" I will be keeping my Nexus until a 4.3" T-Mobile Android deice come out.
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Heres a link but I'm not sure how he knows
mcp2009 said:
Heres a link but I'm not sure how he knows
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Information from the leaked g2rom
mcp2009 said:
Heres a link but I'm not sure how he knows
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Thanks.
I'm still waiting for a 1.3-1.5 GHz phone before replacing my Nexus.
Honestly, im waitng for the next Dev phone, personally the mod community on the Nexus One is far superior to anything it could be on any other phone. So i'll wait, im not a slide out keyboard guy anyway. Google tends to release a new "dev" phone for each major release:
G1 - 1.0 &1.5
MT3G - 1.6 (i think)
Droid -2.0
Nexus One -2.1 & 2.2
Droid was never a development phone
JCopernicus said:
Droid was never a development phone
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no but is was a pure android phone (no skin or anything) and was the flagship phone for 2.0, so as far as im concerned it was an unofficial dev phone
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Droid was never a development phone
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Blueman101 said:
no but is was a pure android phone (no skin or anything) and was the flagship phone for 2.0, so as far as im concerned it was an unofficial dev phone
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Not to mention Google was giving it away along with Nexus One's to developers.

G2x

Have any of you thought about maybe getting the g2x? any good reasons why not?
I'm going to buy it. Has my Mytouch 4G beat in every aspect I care about minus Cyanogen support. Hopefully that will come later.
Akulamenuri said:
I'm going to buy it. Has my Mytouch 4G beat in every aspect I care about minus Cyanogen support. Hopefully that will come later.
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No it doesn't. The G2x only has 512MB of RAM versus the MT4G's 768.
im getting the g2x. ill be in vegas when it comes out. i heard the 15th and than i heard the 20th. ill arrive in vegas on the 16th so hopefully it does launch and i can find the nearest tmobile store. im putting my iphone and mytouch online to trade for one if i go for broke in vegas lol.
how can such a "high end" phone have so little ram?
hydrogenman said:
how can such a "high end" phone have so little ram?
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Good question. I was surprised to read that myself. 512MB is like going back to early 2010 when the Nexus One came out. I would expect most new high end devices coming out today to have 768MB or 1GB.
Just wait for the pyramid or the HTC sensation. Same phone.
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xl DIGITAL lx said:
Just wait for the pyramid or the HTC sensation. Same phone.
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Honestly, the myTouch 4G is plenty enough power for me. There is no app alive that can bog this phone down. **** ton of RAM and nice second gen cpu. Dual core is nice but not needed. I'll wait till my contract ends and there's probably gonna be like quad cores out by then lol.
mackster248 said:
Honestly, the myTouch 4G is plenty enough power for me. There is no app alive that can bog this phone down. **** ton of RAM and nice second gen cpu. Dual core is nice but not needed. I'll wait till my contract ends and there's probably gonna be like quad cores out by then lol.
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I feel the exact same way. My contract just expired, but there aren't any phones out yet that I'd rather have. The other issue is not knowing what will happen with the network and phone compatibility. I probably won't get a new phone until the TMO/ATT merger is final.
I'll be sitting at Tmobile the second they open getting the G2X. It's too much of a beast not to.
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I'll be sitting at Tmobile the second they open getting the G2X. It's too much of a beast not to.
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TeeJay3800 said:
I feel the exact same way. My contract just expired, but there aren't any phones out yet that I'd rather have. The other issue is not knowing what will happen with the network and phone compatibility. I probably won't get a new phone until the TMO/ATT merger is final.
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I talked to a buddy of mine that works for tmobile, and he said that it's going to be at least a year before the merger is finalized, and even then changes aren't going to be right then.
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I talked to a buddy of mine that works for tmobile, and he said that it's going to be at least a year before the merger is finalized, and even then changes aren't going to be right then.
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True. So possible a year and a half before u see any changes. Im getting the g2x and getting rid of whichever I think isnt better. I want a dual core though.
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512 mb of ram is large enough, it's just a phone not a real PC. there are no apps available or in development that will require you to have big amounts of ram.
cyanogen just said on his twitter account that this will be his next phone.
http://twitter.com/cyanogen
so this is a great Plus.
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No it doesn't. The G2x only has 512MB of RAM versus the MT4G's 768.
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I repeat, every aspect I care about. 512MB is plenty. Something else that is pretty sick is that it supports At&t 3G bands so I will be buying this phone unlocked to help futureproof my device.
peacekeeper05 said:
512 mb of ram is large enough, it's just a phone not a real PC. there are no apps available or in development that will require you to have big amounts of ram.
cyanogen just said on his twitter account that this will be his next phone.
http://twitter.com/cyanogen
so this is a great Plus.
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Just gave me a reason to get it cyanogen was the reason I got a g2 as well before I bought the mytouch.
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I think I will have to get the G2x. From what everyone is saying, the stock 2.2 sounds like it is so smooth that it will make it easy to wait for Cyan development. I would also imagine that it would be that much easier for LG to release 2.3 OTA. Anybody know what LG's history is on OTA support?
peacekeeper05 said:
512 mb of ram is large enough, it's just a phone not a real PC. there are no apps available or in development that will require you to have big amounts of ram.
cyanogen just said on his twitter account that this will be his next phone.
http://twitter.com/cyanogen
so this is a great Plus.
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You know what this means.... FULL Cyanogenmod access! By Cyanogen himself, not his team. That will be great! LOL
I thought about pre-ordering on the 15th, but it probably won't get to me until the 20th anyway (since the 15th is a friday, sometimes T-Mobile surprises us before the release date), so I might just wait to go to the store in the morning.
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I think I will have to get the G2x. From what everyone is saying, the stock 2.2 sounds like it is so smooth that it will make it easy to wait for Cyan development. I would also imagine that it would be that much easier for LG to release 2.3 OTA. Anybody know what LG's history is on OTA support?
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The reason T-Mobile took the UI from Optimus 2x off the phone is so it will be easy to update to 2.3, since that's what it was suppose to originally ship with. Google will be the one releasing 2.3 OTA, not LG so don't worry.
nspusmc said:
I think I will have to get the G2x. From what everyone is saying, the stock 2.2 sounds like it is so smooth that it will make it easy to wait for Cyan development. I would also imagine that it would be that much easier for LG to release 2.3 OTA. Anybody know what LG's history is on OTA support?
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LG just got in to the high tech game of mobile phones so we will have to wait and see about otas.
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Akulamenuri said:
I repeat, every aspect I care about. 512MB is plenty. Something else that is pretty sick is that it supports At&t 3G bands so I will be buying this phone unlocked to help futureproof my device.
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Just because no single app uses that much, doesn't mean that a device's performance doesn't increase when more RAM is present. RAM is something you can never have too much of, and in today's world, 512MB for a smartphone is paltry.

HTC Falls Behind Motorola In Updates

http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/01/ota-gingerbread-2-3-update-now-available-for-droid-x/
Motorola and Verizon have released the Gingerbread 2.3 OTA for their phones while HTC is still sitting on it.
So much for HTC being the leader int he cell phone game. Yeah they make better phones but whats the point if the competition is updating and providing faster service.
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http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/01/ota-gingerbread-2-3-update-now-available-for-droid-x/
Motorola and Verizon have released the Gingerbread 2.3 OTA for their phones while HTC is still sitting on it.
So much for HTC being the leader int he cell phone game. Yeah they make better phones but whats the point if the competition is updating and providing faster service.
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You need to ***** at sprint HTC is waiting for sprint to let them update that is what HTC said its up to Sprint so everyone needs to flood Sprint with calls emails and demand update.
ItsLasher said:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/01/ota-gingerbread-2-3-update-now-available-for-droid-x/
Motorola and Verizon have released the Gingerbread 2.3 OTA for their phones while HTC is still sitting on it.
So much for HTC being the leader int he cell phone game. Yeah they make better phones but whats the point if the competition is updating and providing faster service.
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Well bub, thats the price of a locked/signed bootloader & Moto Blek...
This is why we have XDA my friend.
There's also a difference from Eclair to Froyo from Froyo to Gingerbread.
Froyo actually offered something new from Eclair, Gingerbread does have some benefits but mostly nothing groundbreaking. The X and the Evo were updated to Froyo in about the same time frame of their release.
Didn't the Droid X2 already launch though?
Guess it makes sense, if that is true, that they'd start pushing the update. Isn't that the idea with the Evo? Wait for the successor to drop, then update the past device?
Either way, it'll be here soon enough.
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You need to ***** at sprint HTC is waiting for sprint to let them update that is what HTC said its up to Sprint so everyone needs to flood Sprint with calls emails and demand update.
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Pretty much, sprint isn't letting ANY of their phones offically get GB until they release the 3D with GB on it.
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Pretty much, sprint isn't letting ANY of their phones offically get GB until they release the 3D with GB on it.
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And you know this to be fact or purely speculating?
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And you know this to be fact or purely speculating?
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Think about it, its a marketing ploy. Want GB on sprint, buy the Evo 3d, then after they start selling it, oh by the way, the rest of you guys already signed up can get your update now. If they were to update our phones, what incentive would we have to get the 3d since we already would have GB??
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what incentive would we have to get the 3d since we already would have GB??
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I dunno. A superior piece of hardware?
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I dunno. A superior piece of hardware?
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Sure, for those of us who are into that, but for the casual user they dont even know about better hardware. They just know GB is the latest software and thats all they want.
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Sure, for those of us who are into that, but for the casual user they dont even know about better hardware. They just know GB is the latest software and thats all they want.
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I'd say it's the other way around. The casual user would want a better phone over OS tweaks that they may not even understand.
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I dunno. A superior piece of hardware?
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To the average consumer? No.
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To the average consumer? No.
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LOL. Let me call my wife and ask her what she thinks of Gingerbread. I'll assume she'll have no idea what I'm talking about and maybe bring up cookies.
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I'd say it's the other way around. The casual user would want a better phone over OS tweaks that they may not even understand.
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My brother knows about a better phone but he Hung onto his G1 till a great deal came, and it did with t-mobile free mt4g....
So some won't care of better hardware or even software....
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I'd say it's the other way around. The casual user would want a better phone over OS tweaks that they may not even understand.
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I agree. I don't think HTC makes better phones btw, motorola kills them in battery life, and I prefer phones made of metal.
I also would rather believe that people in general would want the newest phone over the newest software update. The "average consumer" probably has no idea what the latest iteration of Android is or how to even check for the ota for it lol.
Is it really that big of a deal? The majority of us have rooted phones running custom ROMs anyway. There are handfuls of GB ROMs, both Sense and AOSP. We've had GB on AOSP ROMs (CM) for months now, while the Droid X didn't get GB ROMs until recently.
I know sometimes it's just to ***** and complain about something for the sake of *****ing and complaining, but seriously, is there any need to say that HTC isn't the "leader of the cell phone game" anymore just because of one simple software update?
Also,
Unlocked bootloader >>>>>>> OTA GB update
Holy speculation based thread we have here batman!
Sprint "holding back updates to all phones" comments are silly.
Also, who cares? With HTC phones I can run Cyanogen and have had Gingerbread for what three months now?
With Motorola I can say I have root...which is meaningless.
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Pretty much, sprint isn't letting ANY of their phones offically get GB until they release the 3D with GB on it.
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Money hungry corporate whores
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mattykinsx said:
Holy speculation based thread we have here batman!
Sprint "holding back updates to all phones" comments are silly.
Also, who cares? With HTC phones I can run Cyanogen and have had Gingerbread for what three months now?
With Motorola I can say I have root...which is meaningless.
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Lol I wrote HTC they said its up to Sprint .

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