New Phones Still Sold With Old Versions of Android

Re:New Phones Still Sold With Old Versions of Android by scorpioxy on Monday March 15, 2010 @04:43PM (#1194063)

So I bought my HTC Hero with version 1.5 and HTC has been promising the upgrade "this month" ever sense i bought it 5 months ago. I essentially went with the HTC(which i bought from the US and had it shipped over, by the way) because they were more developer friendly than the rest.

Sense UI is good looking, but i am not sure if its a good enough reason to stick to older platforms. Especially when the APIs on the older platform suck.

Having said that, there are a few enhancements that are integrated with the Sense UI that are not in the mainline release(which makes you wonder why they're not). So its not a complete loss.

The phone definitely has its faults from a design perspective(who's bright idea was it to put the speaker on the back) so for my next purchase I will reconsider where i get my set from.

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Re:New Phones Still Sold With Old Versions of Android by usaar333 on Tuesday March 16, 2010 @05:45PM (#1196911)

I too have a hero and updated to android 2.1: http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=519

(Obviously, most people won't do it, but at least those of us who visit HN can).

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