...and get a subsidized phone, then buy an HTC phone from Verizon. In
2010, Verizon was the best carrier by offering a third of its Android
phones (released in 2009 or 2010 with Android 2.1 or earlier) an
upgrade to 2.2 ("Froyo", came out in June). Sprint got 28.6%, T-Mobile
12.5% and AT&T an astounding 0%. As for manufacturers - HTC upgraded
50%, Motorola 15.4%, Samsung 11.1% and SonyEricsson, LG and Dell all
0%. What's not clear to me (even after reading the source article) was
whether the percentages referred to the number of phone models or
phones sold (I assume the former).
http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/13/verizon-wireless-and-htc-most-eager-to-provide-android-2-2-updat/
I guess that's the kind of "value" that carriers and handset vendors
bring to the platform, as Android head honcho Andy Rubin explained in
October (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2370464,00.asp). Sorry,
I couldn't resist... But seriously, one reason that Android is so
popular is that both carriers and handset vendors can put all sorts of
crap on it (and take away - if I remember correctly, the Galaxy Tab on
Verizon doesn't work with Bluetooth keyboards), so the lack of
firmware upgrades is the (necessary?) downside of that.
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