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Android Upgrades: Who To Trust
Of course the past won’t tell us the future, but it will give us expectations. Some manufacturers showed that they failed at upgrading their phones to a newer platform version. This article shows how much.
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Samsung Insider Takes to XDA to Explain How Updates Work, It’s “Largely Political”
Picture a snowball rolling down a hill, getting bigger by the moment and you’ll have an image of the growing hostility over the situation. Just what the heck is going on over at Samsung? Someone reporting to be from the inside of the handset maker has taken to XDA to share a few details. As he/she explains it the withholding of the update is “largely political one, not a technological one”.
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There is Someone Out There That is Angrier Than Me…
I knew that people shared my anger about the whole T-Mo/Samsung debacle from the last few days, but there is someone out there who has gone further than my “Rayge Against the Machine” segment on AGTN.
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The Android Community Means Nothing Apparently
To T-Mobile and Samsung that is. Before I launch into my textual rant that has loving become known as “Ray-ging” (thanks to @technogasms), I need to put a disclaimer that this is an opinion piece, and my opinions may not reflect the opinions of Android …
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Intercept to Get Froyo in a Few Months (Virgin Mobile)
Well, at least this Samsung phone is getting updated to Froyo. Pre-paid wireless provider Virgin Mobile announced via Twitter that the Intercept, an 800 Mhz landscape slider that launched at Target stores last fall, will be upgraded to Android 2.2 “sometime this spring.”
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Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” Now Running on .4% of All Android Devices
With Android 2.2 Froyo now running on the majority of Android devices, Android 2.3 Gingerbread has started creep up very, very slowly on the frozen Android treat. Gingerbread is now running on .4% of Android devices.
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CES 2011: More LG Optimus 2X Info
Remember that LG phone that beat the iPhone in a video a little while back? It’s the Optimus 2X, the very first phone sporting a dual-core processor, running on Android 2.2, with an update to 2.3 promised soon.
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2010: Android Revamped
2010 was definately the year of significant UI changes for Android. Dragging an arrow up to see your apps may seem fancy at the first glance, but after a year or so, you’ll probably want some more eye-candy, and so did Google.
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LG Ally to See Froyo in February 2011
According to LG’s official forum, Verizon’s LG Ally handsets will see Android 2.2 in February 2011. After making its debut with Android 2.1 all the way back in May 2010, the handset maker later promised Android 2.2 would eventually come.
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HTC Wildfire Expected to see Froyo Rollout in Europe This Week, World Tour to Ensue
Our European friends will be happy to learn that their HTC Wildfire will be seeing Android 2.2 within the week.
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Sprint Telling Techs to Flash Epics With Leaked Froyo Back to Eclair
An anonymous tip has just come in from the world of Sprint PCS. Rumor has it that Sprint is, unofficially, telling its technicians that if a Samsung Epic comes in for repair running the leaked build of Froyo, they are supposed to flash it back …
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Get the Gingerbread Launcher On Your Froyo Device
Modaco’s Paul O’Brien has extracted the Gingerbread launcher out of the emulator ROM and made it available for all devices running Froyo. Combined with the Gingerbread-keyboard, this can give you a bit of an impression what Gingerbread is like.
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Android 2.2 Hits HTC Legend Across Europe Beginning December 9
We know a lot of you guys and gals are anxious to get your Gingerbread fix, however we should remember that there are folks who still want Froyo. One such handset, the HTC Legend has been out for more than a few months now, yet it has been waiting for Android 2.2 to arrive. Great news – the wait is nearly over!
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LG Star Could be First Dual Core Android Device, Launch in Korea
LG seems to be back in town with a whole lot of new Androids, and we have to say, impressive ones. Now they are about to launch their first Android phone sporting a dual core processor.
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