Rezound and still no Ice Cream Sandwich

[AZSALUKI]

yes....because samsung has an EXCELLENT track record of updates....lol. check out the Nexus threads before you jump ship.....or the Fascinate, Strtosphere, etc, etc.....basically EVERY samsung device. htc is not your problem, verizon is. i could care less about their sales, i was simply pointing out that if you launch a major device in april one year and nothing in april the next year, then may's figures will be down the next year. if the iphone launched in the middle of june last year and in august this year.....what do you suppose it's sales would look like in july of this year, compared to july of last year?

[PJNC284]

stevesharkman wrote:

samsung is gonna be my next phone.

ha, if you're complaining about updates, Samsung isn't the way to go.  They have historically been the slowest to update their phones across the major US carriers while HTC tends to be better.  There was an article that I can't find from a while back but here's a more recent one.  I purchased a Fascinate at launch (running Eclair-Android 2.1) and it took forever to get Froyo (Android 2.2).  They did just recently upgrade it to Gingerbread though.

[michaeljtimko]

I'm debating what level of complaint is going to be required to get Verizon to deliver the ICS Update.  Do I hear BBB, State AG, or maybe even FCC?  Its for this reason that I am considering TMobile PrePay once my contract ends.  For $70 per line I can get unlimited talk, text, and 5GB of internet access (I use less than 4GB eventhough I have unlimited).  I will get more, pay less, and not have to lease my soul to a phone company every two years.

[cmhyson]

Verizon CEO needs to get the boot

On Jun 7, 2012 4:03 AM, "michaeljtimko" <community@verizonwireless.com>

[michaeljtimko]

What really needs to happen here is every phone manufacturer conspire to follow the Apple model of software releases.  If everybody stood united... like a labor union, Verizon would have no power over the content or release timeframes of updates.  This is where Apple gets its power to do whatever they feel like.  They dictate to you how the deal is going to go and if you don't like it, then you don't get their toys.  This is what cost Verizon the iPhone back in 2007.  They tried to dictate terms to Apple and instead Apple went to a partner more willing to sell their mothers soul... AT&T.

[cmhyson]

That's why I'm thinking of switching when the iphone 5 comes out. iphones

have no bloatware and software updates come right from Apple themselves.

Sure my phone won't turn in to a robot or zyborg like verizon wants it to

but I'm a grown up not a child

On Jun 7, 2012 7:53 PM, "michaeljtimko" <community@verizonwireless.com>

[commonsense101]

not going to happen.. say a company like htc,moto, samsung all have like 50 phones all running from 2.1 to 4.0.. i doubt it will ever happen

thats what makes android great though, new hardware comes out and with that you have new abilites with the software

internally the hardware on the iphone is about 3 years old already, cant keep up

But there is something to be said for the same version on every device

[demmo86rt]

The thing is, even though it shows the same version, Apple typically doesn't include the hot new feature for older phones. Siri has been shown to work fine on other iPhones, but the 4S is the only one to officially have it. And, from what I've read, newer versions of iOS don't run very well on older phones.

[cmhyson]

You can't access the software if your phone never gets updated and carriers

want to toss in bloatware and location services

On Jun 7, 2012 11:12 PM, "commonsense101" <community@verizonwireless.com>

[PJNC284]

The abundance of devices doesn't help either and makes it a lot harder with updates.  Not only does the manufacturer have to develop the software for the various hardware versions, they also have to please the US carriers with each release and go through additional testing.  They should really just start doing like they do in Europe and the others with a couple major releases with little carrier intervention.  There's a reason the phones there get updates well ahead of us here in the States.