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qft. as i said, at least with apple, you know you'll get a good year out of your phone before the next model hits, & your phone will still be supported for quite a while after the new model drops. With android its 800Mhz in march, 1GHZ in september, dual core in december & your phone is old in like 3 months.Originally Posted by whyhellothere
Originally Posted by usainboltisfast
That's something that has really bothering me, how many damn phones they've put out. HTC used to put out a few high end phones through out the year. Anything they've put out after the Evo has really been eh, a bunch of carrier variants and nothing with a wow factor, their quality has fallen off. I can understand that not everyone wants a 4inch plus screen but when the phone is all touch screen putting something out that is less than 3.7 inches, isn't the best idea but maybe I'm being baised since my screen 4 inches and I wouldn't anything lessBut yea all these mid end phones are holding Android back. But I think since a lot of companies are making phones with a 1GHz processor and some dual core eing a 1-1.2GHz and high resolutions, things can move forward at a better rate.
Its only going to get worse. Now that some phones are going dual core it's going to outdate certain things way to fast. If you bought a phone a year ago you are already leaps and beyond behind some of the newer phones. The average consumer isnt going to buy a new phone without a subsidized price. With verizon getting rid of the every 2 promotion some people are going to be 20 months behind potentially.Outside hardware ive noticed os fragmentation occurring on android. I think it is completely unfair they way certain phone makers are treating certain phone users in regards to android updates. If google can come with solution to univerisalize the update process similar to iOS.
But isn't that the same with everything. Dual core just came out, and even with that out a lot of phones are still 1GHz, and yea even if your phone may technically be considered "old" in a short time, it won't be problem, such as the Nexus One is a year old and it was one of the first phones to receive the 2.3 update. The technology put into the phones, they can utilize the OS in an efficient manner and a lasting manner. For the the most part, I know HTC, Motoral, and Samsung wait a year or so to release a follow up to a previous phone. They may put out a new phone but it won't be a follow up and if so it may be for a different carrier that wants a follow up and didn't get the previous phone. As for the speed of the processor, a lot of companies underclock them, the structure allows them to run the OS greatly even at a lower speed. You can take Windows Phone 7 for example, the HTC phones, some of them were built similar to the Nexus One and HD7 is basically the HD2, using old technology and the OS and phone run wonderfully. Yes, there are points where an phone won't be able to use the latest OS due to it's age such as the G1 but just because something may h ave "old" technology, that doesn't make it obsolete.
