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@twospirits I agree that the manufacturers have made their bed on this, both by starting the updating of software, and by releasing a ton of phones at the top end that people expect to be updated. In a perfect world, all customers on every carrier could use any phone. All galaxy 2 would be the same hardware etc. They are trying to consolidate their lines, but they all know that everyone wants the newest model. Look at the Evo 3D and E4GT, E4GT is just slightly better than the 3D, but they can't give the 3D away anymore.

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Ouch, full retail? What was that? $650?

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I would bet I edit my posts an average of 2 times after posting. LOL

Alright, first of all, I am going to say that I am part of the 10% of smartphone users that wants the newest software and will root and will sometimes load up the alpha builds, even though I fully expect bugs, just because I am so curious about what future versions will bring. I can fully sympathize with Nexus S owners that you were promised quick upgrades, but beware the following soapbox rant: For every one smartphone user that is dying for the ICS update there are two people who don't want it. Why would someone not want an upgrade? Well, they finally have a phone with software that has all the bugs worked out. They might also enjoy the version of Android that they are on and not want to learn a whole new system. I have read that there is a huge fragmentation problem with iPhones because people don’t want to upgrade. My first example on Android: the Samsung Epic 4G. Owners of the Epic 4G were treated to a "long overdue" (in their words) upgrade from Froyo to Gingerbread. "Wait a minute, this software is buggy! Boo Samsung, I will never buy another Samsung, because they took forever to release gingerbread and when they did, it had bugs!" Of course there are bugs. It is a new OS on an old handset, you are going to have some bugs that didn’t surface in the Alpha and Beta testing and now that it hit release candidate and went all over the country, it reared its ugly head. I have come to realize that manufacturers don't owe the customer anything besides bug fixes. Any upgrade to the latest version of Android is a plus. The thing is, the manufacturer just wants to keep their customers happy. Just think if every manufacturer decided to stop releasing updates other than bug fixes. The only product line that promises updates to the latest version of Android is the Nexus line. They have failed Nexus S owners so far, but they are not holding it back as some giant tease. There are obviously issues and bugs that they are working out. The Nexus S owners that received the update are having battery life issues and an assortment of other bugs. I don’t blame Google for throwing the rest of the updates back into alpha testing or scrapping altogether and starting over. It takes Google about a year to design the next Nexus phone and write the next software. It still comes out with bugs. Why? Because everyone is screaming for the next Nexus and they have to cut their testing cycles shorter. Now everyone is screaming for Motorola, HTC or Samsung to “just give them ice cream sandwich already!” Well, what do you want? A polished relatively bug-free release candidate or a beta version that will require two or more bug-fix updates to get it polished? Then you run into data corruption issues because you are modifying modified software. The infancy of Android is behind (most of) us. Ever since Froyo’s release, Android has been a great operating system. There are minor additions with each new version, but as with iOS, most of the big changes come with the newest hardware, not software. I recently decided that I was done waiting for Samsung and upgraded my Galaxy Tab to Gingerbread, and I was amazed at how little was changed. It still is a 7 inch, Wi-Fi only tablet with cameras that aren’t very good, but it runs all my favorite apps. I guess it ran all my favorite apps before… Maybe if I upgrade to ICS it will make it suck less? P.S. I am sorry if I offended anyone with this post, but I had to quit reading XDA because people were getting on my nerves expecting the developers to give them ice cream sandwich ROMs. “Well the source code is out there, just do it already, what is taking you unpaid lazy !@%$ so long to just give us ICS already?” It costs the manufacturers a lot of money to rework the entire operating system, and they take a lot of heat for any bugs that surface after release. I don’t blame them for taking their time.

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I'm rather surprised that they were that close to LTE phones. Att and Verizon were selling LTE phones during Q4. As far as HSPA+, ATT and T-Mobile were both selling them and I wonder if all the iPhones count in that number. Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk