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kinda sad that a phone thats been out for almost a year is getting gingerbread before the atrix. i think its ATT's fault. they seem to delay OS updates, at least they did for the captivate. both rogers and bell got froyo months before att. maybe ATT wants to make sure all the features it wants disabled are in working like wifi hotspot?
True. Im already regretting buying my Atrix, too late to return it though. But also Motorola was asking for beta testers to sign up to test 2.3.
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http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/16/...pdate-now-rolling-out-across-europe/#comments
kinda sad that a phone thats been out for almost a year is getting gingerbread before the atrix. i think its ATT's fault. they seem to delay OS updates, at least they did for the captivate. both rogers and bell got froyo months before att. maybe ATT wants to make sure all the features it wants disabled are in working like wifi hotspot?
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Looks like this is for unbranded galaxy s phones though. In the US it takes longer cause the carriers are modding the OS to add all their useless bloatware crappola an it's usually the carrier that pushes the updates not the manufacturer. But hopefully with the update to enable hsupa we get a couple of extra goodies.
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Magic_Bunny said:
True. Im already regretting buying my Atrix, too late to return it though. But also Motorola was asking for beta testers to sign up to test 2.3.
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motorola is getting beta testers for gingerbread? did they put up a sign up like for the update or just announce it?
Motor is asking for beta testers? If so...then GB will be released
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Motorola isnt beta testing 2.3
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+1.
I'll believe it when I see it myself!
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it makes sense that the phone that's been out for a year gets it first....
since google released the 2.3 source code, the company has been doing nothing but preparing an update most likely. motorola however, needed to iron out kinks in their initial 2.2 release before they can consider developing a 2.3 OS, and then allowing carriers to modify it to your liking.
obviously you didn't think about what has to be done to come up with a polished 2.3 update before it can be released as an official OTA update. you really can't fault motorola for this not being out yet. it takes a lot of time, testing, and effort to release a finished product.
Raybond, I agree with everything you said, but its hard to cut Motorola any slack for this when the phone should have come with 2.3 in the first place. On top of that they lock the bootloader so we cant get 2.3 working on our own either....
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Raybond, I agree with everything you said, but its hard to cut Motorola any slack for this when the phone should have come with 2.3 in the first place. On top of that they lock the bootloader so we cant get 2.3 working on our own either....
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well, the problem is that they probably started dev for the atrix's OS before 2.3 was released, so it would have been even more work, and probably would have caused delays in their release of the phone if they had shipped it with 2.3
I know locked bootloader is a massive drag for 3rd party dev, but you really can't fault moto for any decisions they've made with this phone other than that.
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Looks like this is for unbranded galaxy s phones though. In the US it takes longer cause the carriers are modding the OS to add all their useless bloatware crappola an it's usually the carrier that pushes the updates not the manufacturer. But hopefully with the update to enable hsupa we get a couple of extra goodies.
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I guess this is the price we pay for having a subsidized drvice. Unfortunately... although we pay double for it in years of service.
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I guess this is the price we pay for having a subsidized drvice. Unfortunately... although we pay double for it in years of service.
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not really, you are going to be paying a carrier either way just without a contract. the cost of the subsidy doesnt get added to your bill. either this or buy a phone for full price like in europe.
i read that google is going to be releasing ice cream sandwich sometime this summer. maybe motorola is going to skip gingerbread? i wouldnt mind waiting until the end of the year if it means we get 2.4.
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not really, you are going to be paying a carrier either way just without a contract. the cost of the subsidy doesnt get added to your bill. either this or buy a phone for full price like in europe.
i read that google is going to be releasing ice cream sandwich sometime this summer. maybe motorola is going to skip gingerbread? i wouldnt mind waiting until the end of the year if it means we get 2.4.
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You would have to skip over "Gingerbread" AND "Honeycomb" to get to ICS.
That's not gonna happen...
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+1.
I'll believe it when I see it myself!
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Yes moto does.
I read it on moto official forum.
And you need to fill a form or something before a date...
I would if my phone wasn't unlocked..
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My fault!!!! Sorry guys!!!
I didn't read the whole post from moto forum. At the end of that post there is an edit, that says it was about the 1.5.7 update we already got! My mistake, my fault, sorry
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You would have to skip over "Gingerbread" AND "Honeycomb" to get to ICS.
That's not gonna happen...
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actually you're not skipping honeycomb....
honeycomb is a totally different series in Android OS, tablet-specific series to be precise (3.0)
So, gingerbread is 2.3, and ICS is 2.4. Also, rumour has it that ICS will have full dual-core support, so it would make logical sense for Moto to not waste any time with 2.3 and go straight for dev in 2.4
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You would have to skip over "Gingerbread" AND "Honeycomb" to get to ICS.
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ice creme sandwich is a blend features of both gingerbread and honeycomb made specifically for phones. you will not be seeing honeycomb on an android phone backed by google. that one reason google is not releasing honeycomb source yet, they dont want to have honeycomb phones out there.
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So, gingerbread is 2.3, and ICS is 2.4. Also, rumour has it that ICS will have full dual-core support, so it would make logical sense for Moto to not waste any time with 2.3 and go straight for dev in 2.4
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i thought gingerbread is suppost to be optimized for dual cores too.
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Yes moto does.
I read it on moto official forum.
And you need to fill a form or something before a date...
I would if my phone wasn't unlocked..
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link please?
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ice creme sandwich is a blend features of both gingerbread and honeycomb made specifically for phones. you will not be seeing honeycomb on an android phone backed by google. that one reason google is not releasing honeycomb source yet, they dont want to have honeycomb phones out there.
i thought gingerbread is suppost to be optimized for dual cores too.
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i believe that it has some modicum of support for dual core, but is not completely optimized for it as 2.4 will be.
that's just my understanding, if someone could provide a link to prove me wrong then i'd freely accept it.
Gingerbread as currently released for SGS has some glitches but guess what Samsung just released the source code! So we should be seeing fixes and tricked out kernels/ROMS/system apps very soon.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=12992329&posted=1#post12992329
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I'll believe it when I see it myself!
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I saw the signup sheet too. It never hurts to waste a little time each day looking through these forums. I swear I saw a link for it. I looked at it and saw some sign up thingy on Motorola's website.
See here for overview of conference.
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In regards to Android updates...
-"New guidelines! Man, this is going to be huge. Google's laying out a timeline for how long it'll take a device to get updated once a new build is let loose, as well as how long it'll be updated beyond that."
-"These shown will be provided timely updates for at least 18 months provided the hardware can handle it. Whoa. WHOA!" -Samsung included here
http://media.xda-developers.com/images/editor/separator.gif
-"The keynote's moving on, but our head is still spinning here. And we're sure the heads of Epic 4G owners are as well." Engadget targeting us.
Linky.
So it looks like Google is taking care of fragmentation. Also they announched Ice Cream Sammmmicch and their goals for unity. In addition, Google Music. Quick get your invites at http://music.google.com
Also, looks like Google has prepared a sweet Arduino dev kit for USB + bluetooth (in the future) for Android devices. Definitely a ton of potential.
Also, they announced [email protected] automation for Android tablets/phones.
And yes... I capitalized NEWS versus Huge, just to be different.
Good for Google for taking the proper steps to mend the biggest problem with their platform.
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12:35PM The keynote's moving on, but our head is still spinning here. And we're sure the heads of Epic 4G owners are as well.
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Heh.
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This is interesting
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Free Galaxy Tab 10.1 for attendees! I'm jealous!
Good stuff. So I guess the "Samsung will never update past Froyo" crap can be put to an end for good. Sprint/Samsung both on board (maybe forced by Google, I don't care how) to support updates 18 months into the life of the devices (if they can handle it) which they SHOULD when they took away the yearly upgrades from most folks.
Also, the movie rental thing Google is releasing looks NICE. So much for Samsung's media hub. Google isn't charging an arm an a leg for rentals either.
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Good stuff. So I guess the "Samsung will never update past Froyo" crap can be put to an end for good.
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It was put to bed for good with ED12.
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Free Galaxy Tab 10.1 for attendees! I'm jealous!
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That's 5,000 Galaxy Tabs. Damn. They know how to put on a show.
Everybody should watch it, a lot of cool stuff. Remember, this is only the first day of I/O.
Also, Engadget's front page is full of I/O stuff right now if you don't have time to watch the video but still want some more info.
Oh, and I thanked you k0nane to make it so you have 1001 thanks. Sorry.
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It was put to bed for good with ED12.
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True. Guess it puts to bed that they never will update past Gingerbread
I have little doubt now my phone will at the very least have Ice Cream before my upgrade time rolls around.
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You need an "s" in your link:
http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleDevelopers
Fixed it in the quote.
Xerloq said:
You need an "s" in your link:
http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleDevelopers
Fixed it in the quote.
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Fixed in op. Thanks.
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True. Guess it puts to bed that they never will update past Gingerbread
I have little doubt now my phone will at the very least have Ice Cream before my upgrade time rolls around.
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With the close Sprint/Goog collaboration on Voice I bet Sprint is going to start coming fast and furious with updates.
I cant wait till 2.4 comes out!!!
I cant wait till 2.4 comes out!!!
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I just can't wait for official gingerbread lol
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By the way, where was Kyocera on that list of partners? I pity anyone who gets suckered into buying that dual screen disaster.
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With the close Sprint/Goog collaboration on Voice I bet Sprint is going to start coming fast and furious with updates.
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unless they pull an HTC Hero/Samsung moment on us >.>
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unless they pull an HTC Hero/Samsung moment on us >.>
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I would think that about a year ago, but the AT&T+T-Mob and Verizon+iPhone make Sprint the natural choice for stronger Google ties, as it needs the "best" hardware and software to compete on a level with the two giants. This process has already started with Voice integration and releasing a Sprint Nexus
The closer Google holds Sprint, the better it is for us and the better/faster the updates come to the Goog Network.
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I would think that about a year ago, but the AT&T+T-Mob and Verizon+iPhone make Sprint the natural choice for stronger Google ties, as it needs the "best" hardware and software to compete on a level with the two giants. This process has already started with Voice integration and releasing a Sprint Nexus
The closer Google holds Sprint, the better it is for us and the better/faster the updates come to the Goog Network.
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At the same time, that puts Sprint as the only major carrier without an iphone...and I hope they dont go deeper into trying to compete with it by putting all their resources into 1 phone basket... like they did with the Instinct, Pre, Evo...
Now if the carriers and manufactures can come to a agreement on how to properly handle dud phones. I by no means hope there is another debacle like the Samsung Moment was but it is a shame what some had to go through to get rid of that lemon and stupider Sprint kept selling it even though its issues were documented to the umteenth degree.
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I don't want to burst any bubbles, but everything I have read about the 18 month update thing pertains to "new" devices. Not saying they won't apply the same standard to our phones and other phones, but the announcement was from here on that new devices would stay updates for at least 18 months.
Yes... ICS 4.0.5 is suspended for Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus...
Source by SFR : http://android.sfr.fr/maj-optimisez-votre-mobile-android-mettez-le-a-jour-previsions-9
What about 4.0.4?
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damn Google!
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oh great... google is really messing this up then, eh?
yeah well, better than a faulty OTA.
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What about 4.0.4?
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you really think a french provider would post info about the 4.0.4-update on sprint?!
I do not believe it!
Would wait until the end of March by the OTA, but I see I'll have to install a ROM alternative!
Let's see if Google decides on something, or if it appears other related news!
Yep yep. Google does it again.. but yeah like i read above, i better wait longer than a faulty OTA..
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Google stated less than two weeks ago 4.0.4 wasn't even complete yet. This French site is just trying to cover up their shoddy reporting.
Shame on Google this time...
pegasolabs said:
Shame on Google this time...
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Shame on Google for what?
In the Q&A, someone from SFR clarifies that the update has been delayed and they don't have an ETA yet. That's all it means. We didn't have an ETA before, so in effect nothing has changed.
This French site is making it up as they go along. They are talking out of their rear end.
I'm happy with 4.0.3. so what is the rush?
Why would Google give inside information to some tin-pot French operator when they have bigger fish to fry with their bigger markets?
They are bullshitting.
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Yeah, it makes zero sense. Google isn't "suspending" an update that never existed to begin with. They are surely working on 4.0.4 or whatever comes next and will release it as soon as it passes the QA tests.
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Why would Google give inside information to some tin-pot French operator when they have bigger fish to fry with their bigger markets?
They are bullshitting.
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Lol... that tin-pot provider is pretty big in France, which is a part of the not so small European market. And as far as I remember, us Europeans are the only ones so far who've got an official update. (Plus the American off-shoot, T-Mobile, of course).
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Lol... that tin-pot provider is pretty big in France, which is a part of the not so small European market. And as far as I remember, us Europeans are the only ones so far who've got an official update. (Plus the American off-shoot, T-Mobile, of course).
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It is also the only source of this rumor and has never been verified by any outside source. Therefore, I tend to believe it is nonsense. And it seems the initial report was inaccurate so it is hard to blame Google for information they didn't release that was not true.
Google must be doing something really big in the next update. Otherwise they wouldn't have delayed it for 3 months.
Or maybe Google devs are too much busy with 5.0 that they are hardly concerned with further updates on ICS.
Just wild guesses. Waiting for a surprise from Google.
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Google must be doing something really big in the next update. Otherwise they wouldn't have delayed it for 3 months.
Or maybe Google devs are too much busy with 5.0 that they are hardly concerned with further updates on ICS.
Just wild guesses. Waiting for a surprise from Google.
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My thoughts exactly. They must be cooking up something good.
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Not that I want Google to rush or anything, but I must say ICS on my Nexus S (Tmobile) runs quite poorly. Things hiccup and lag a bit, and when returning to the home screen (especially from Chrome or games), the home screen icons can take upwards of 5+ seconds to load. It happens frequently, and is quite frustrating.
Don't get me wrong, I love ICS, but owning a Nexus device to get the latest update is slightly overrated if it means my year+ old phone can't run it well due to hardware limitations. Kind of makes the second year of owning this device less enjoyable.
I'm hoping an update will address this.
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Shame on Google for what?
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For not realising a bugfixed version of ICS or not releasing practically any version at all on some models. It's the first time that google experience phones will get update after the others...and the comments after mine seem not to disagree so much...
How is something that was never officially planned be suspended??
http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/15/confirmed-ics-coming-to-the-nexus-s-in-the-next-few-weeks/
OTA for all countries or 4.0.5???
Hopefully it's more stable than 4.0.3 was.
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http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/15/confirmed-ics-coming-to-the-nexus-s-in-the-next-few-weeks/
OTA for all countries or 4.0.5???
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What do you mean what is it? It will be ICS finally rolling out after all these months to all the variants. And yes, it will be a bug fix release to the T-mobile version that partially rolled out too.
Can wait for a DEV out there to get it hands dirty with it!!!
Some reliable sources say this time its the real deal.
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Some reliable sources say this time its the real deal.
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That's what they always say. Not impressed.
Engadget shoulda have more specific details, e.g., the version. I have been rocking ICS since the stock ICS OTA rolled out to T-Mobile, and now AOKP.
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That's what they always say. Not impressed.
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Engadget wouldn't post that information unless it was from a source inside of Google. Unlike some of these crack pot bloggers, they actually have real sources.
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Engadget wouldn't post that information unless it was from a source inside of Google. Unlike some of these crack pot bloggers, they actually have real sources.
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They used to....
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They used to....
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If it was from an external source, they would tell you their sources. Since they didn't, then you can be almost 100% positive it was from someone inside of Google.
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They used to....
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Myriam Joire is the real deal man. She has great sources, and I've yet to ever hear her say anything that hasn't been reliable, credible, and ultimately proven true.
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Even I can estimate like this lol.
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Myriam Joire is the real deal man. She has great sources, and I've yet to ever hear her say anything that hasn't been reliable, credible, and ultimately proven true.
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Myriam is a guy.
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Myriam is a guy.
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Uhh, no, Myriam is a woman according to her Engadget bio page. Yes, she may look like a man (all joking aside), but she is not.
I wish, it would have better battery life
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The reason there is such a delay this time around has to deal with the fact google has removed the support from cdma devices officially. This means in order to supply updates, we have to wait for sprint. Currently Sprint is bitter about the who deal. We are the ones who will suffer in the long run.
Same for why the gnex for sprint isn't out quite yet.
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The reason there is such a delay this time around has to deal with the fact google has removed the support from cdma devices officially. This means in order to supply updates, we have to wait for sprint. Currently Sprint is bitter about the who deal. We are the ones who will suffer in the long run.
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The release was pulled from T-mobile and never existed for AT&T. So unless you are saying those are CDMA carriers as well, your theory makes no sense. All 3 device types currently are waiting for an ICS update. Google is surely working to make that happen. But Sprint isn't holding up the release (at least not yet) because it doesn't even exist. And Google removing CDMA from ASOP has no bearing on the speed at which they provide the update. The process is the same. The problem is the lack of understanding of why CDMA was pulled from ASOP and the sensationalist articles spewing incorrect information has probably confused you.
Tired of waiting..
I think Google takes too long to release an OTA!
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The release was pulled from T-mobile and never existed for AT&T. So unless you are saying those are CDMA carriers as well, your theory makes no sense. All 3 device types currently are waiting for an ICS update. Google is surely working to make that happen. But Sprint isn't holding up the release (at least not yet) because it doesn't even exist. And Google removing CDMA from ASOP has no bearing on the speed at which they provide the update. The process is the same. The problem is the lack of understanding of why CDMA was pulled from ASOP and the sensationalist articles spewing incorrect information has probably confused you.
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I guess you work with stuff on a daily basis? This is a google phone, if you don't think GSM variants are not affected by google move to drop cdma support your mistaken. There is alot more that goes on behind the scenes the push code > compile > update. Countless documents, this need to get removed, shuffled and put back into order once again. Instead of google being about to push updates with the help of carriers, google and the nexus s is now fragmented. To ensure a proper release cycle it will take longer then expected. Pulling a phone from official support isn't like dropping your kids off at school.
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I guess you work with stuff on a daily basis? This is a google phone, if you don't think GSM variants are not affected by google move to drop cdma support your mistaken. There is alot more that goes on behind the scenes the push code > compile > update. Countless documents, this need to get removed, shuffled and put back into order once again. Instead of google being about to push updates with the help of carriers, google and the nexus s is now fragmented. To ensure a proper release cycle it will take longer then expected. Pulling a phone from official support isn't like dropping your kids off at school.
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Actually, Google didn't drop support for the CMDA variants except in ASOP. So there is no change in the way they rolled out updates. So you are saying they pulled the buggy release because they anticipated dropping CDMA months later? I guess the AT&T version didn't get the release in December because they were dropping CDMA support several months later? I feel like you are drawing conclusions that aren't even there.
Whose ready...didn't like the name keylime pie anyway lol hopefully we get it
http://m.androidcentral.com/kit-kat-statue-joins-crew-google-hq
https://plus.google.com/116651741222993143554/posts/NeBW7AjT1QM
http://www.android.com/kitkat/
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It's actually android 4.4 not 5.0
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Hell yeah, I want me some KitKat!!!
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Hell yeah, I want me some KitKat!!!
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Break me off a piece of that an-droid phone....
Also with http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/09/balky-carriers-and-slow-oems-step-aside-google-is-defragging-android/ in place, it should be interesting to see just what features are KK only.
sweet
kornklown69 said:
Whose ready...didn't like the name keylime pie anyway lol hopefully we get it
http://m.androidcentral.com/kit-kat-statue-joins-crew-google-hq
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4.3 to 5.0 is too big of a jump anyway at this stage of android. That would of required so many changes and improvements.
Droyyd said:
4.3 to 5.0 is too big of a jump anyway at this stage of android. That would of required so many changes and improvements.
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This is true.
Droyyd said:
4.3 to 5.0 is too big of a jump anyway at this stage of android. That would of required so many changes and improvements.
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i have no clue what 5.0 will bring. these software engineers and programmers are geniuses to even bring us this far. i cant even think of or imagine what else android could do to change the game. it sucks that steve jobs isnt around to give the tech world a little push through competition
You guys can't think of any more improvements to be made to Android? Really? I mean really?
Just off the top of my head how about so much more in the way of customization so you would never ever have to think about using a third party launcher again? How about finally implementing a backup and restore system (an easy and practical one) so you can take all your apps and data from one phone to another? How about coming up with a system in which you can get Android OS updates through the play store and have them work with Sense and others instead of waiting months for updates? Ok that one is pushing it but still possible.
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You guys can't think of any more improvements to be made to Android? Really? I mean really?
Just off the top of my head how about so much more in the way of customization so you would never ever have to think about using a third party launcher again? How about finally implementing a backup and restore system (an easy and practical one) so you can take all your apps and data from one phone to another? How about coming up with a system in which you can get Android OS updates through the play store and have them work with Sense and others instead of waiting months for updates? Ok that one is pushing it but still possible.
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I was reading an article the other day about how it seems google is slowly doing that. They are bringing more and more parts of android to the store, google play services and what not. It was discussing the plausibility that having the launcher, mfg settings, and hardware features be separate from the OS, so that way google can upgrade the core of android without needing an overhaul from the OEM's at every step. Was kinda cool, and seemed very much like the direction they could be going.
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I was reading an article the other day about how it seems google is slowly doing that. They are bringing more and more parts of android to the store, google play services and what not. It was discussing the plausibility that having the launcher, mfg settings, and hardware features be separate from the OS, so that way google can upgrade the core of android without needing an overhaul from the OEM's at every step. Was kinda cool, and seemed very much like the direction they could be going.
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Not sure if this is the article you were talking about..but It hits all the same points. Good Read. http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013...oems-step-aside-google-is-defragging-android/
Android if becoming it's own beast now, & it's eating up cool features & integrating everything that is worth it, I'm likening it to the MCP. imagine Larry Page talking to his desk, for example just raced Google play sound search versus Shazam
Sound Search won hands down with 4/4 correct scans over Shazams 3 and a random track thrown up when it couldn't find the 4th
I can only imagine this corporate Chocy deal with Nestlé will result in the next build being a nestle product starting with L can't think of one betting markets anybody?), followed by version 5.0 Milo
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trueCrusader said:
Android if becoming it's own beast now, & it's eating up cool features & integrating everything that is worth it, I'm likening it to the MCP. imagine Larry Page talking to his desk, for example just raced Google play sound search versus Shazam
Sound Search won hands down with 4/4 correct scans over Shazams 3 and a random track thrown up when it couldn't find the 4th
I can only imagine this corporate Chocy deal with Nestlé will result in the next build being a nestle product starting with L can't think of one betting markets anybody?), followed by version 5.0 Milo
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Milo was taken out back and shot.