I'm pretty sure it's a priority issue. Carriers and OEMs aren't going to see a huge revenue increase from rolling out a 1.x to 2.x update, in fact they could actually hurt their revenue streams by giving users a reason not to buy a new 'phone or upgrade and sign up to a new contract just to get 2.x. Add in to that the training and support costs to support a 1.x to 2.x upgrade on a device and I'm surprised we've seen any of the Carriers even contemplating it.
Al. -- * Looking for Android Apps? - Try http://andappstore.com/ * ====== Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the company number 6741909. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. On 5 May 2010, at 19:35, Nathan wrote: > The data is being updated but the phones aren't, from all I can tell. > > Does anyone know of a single retail phone that has been updated from > 1.x to 2.x? (Not unofficial Roms) > > The blogs, twitter, etc are full of suggestions, leaked internal > memos, suggesting that 2.1 upgrades are just around the corner since > February for Hero, Moment, Cliq etc. > > The statements from the carriers only add to the vagueness - saying > maybe April, no maybe June, no maybe first week of May. Even devices > like the G1 that will probably *never* get the 2x update, I don't know > if the carriers have firmly said no, which makes anything they say > less credible. > > But I really don't know enough about this topic to know what the > bottleneck is. Is it just a really hard problem? Is it just not a > priority for the carriers, so they only have one high school kid > working on it part time? Is it completely impossible/impractical but > they don't want to admit it yet? > > This is the chance for Android to stand out, if people don;t have to > wait for new hardware to get new features. But so far, its not > happening. Palm WebOS hasn't done as well as Android, but they > apparently have/had a more streamlined update process. > > Nathan > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
