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Re:Motorola Cliq XT Won’t Get Android 2.1 Upgrade by gregable on Thursday February 03, 2011 @07:38PM (#2177747)
I read it as the opposite: Android users can update their software regardless of what their manufacturer does.
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Re:Motorola Cliq XT Won’t Get Android 2.1 Upgrade by andrewljohnson on Thursday February 03, 2011 @07:40PM (#2177753)
I think you missed the irony. Such a small percentage of people will ever type something into a terminal that it's irrelevant.
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Re:Motorola Cliq XT Won’t Get Android 2.1 Upgrade by lurkinggrue on Thursday February 03, 2011 @07:50PM (#2177791)
Even more that command would not give you the ability to reflash your phone.

You would still have to root it and get a rom that works on that model.

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Re:Motorola Cliq XT Won’t Get Android 2.1 Upgrade by gloob on Thursday February 03, 2011 @07:55PM (#2177804)
All that really means is that most people don't really care that much about the number buried way deep in their phone's Settings menus.
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Re:Motorola Cliq XT Won’t Get Android 2.1 Upgrade by cooldude127 on Friday February 04, 2011 @10:40AM (#2179755)
Yeah, but they do care when the app they want to use won't work on their phone because their software is too old.
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