Sony Android mobile, buy or wait? Advice please
Apr 8, 2011 | 3:11 pm
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Personally, for business (meaning tons of emails), I find a physical keyboard works best.
For home/personal use, I can tolerate the virtual keyboard.
But, back on topic. I'd choose any Android phone that has the form factor you like and is also known to be easily rooted. Meaning, you can update to whatever firmware you feel like.
For home/personal use, I can tolerate the virtual keyboard.
But, back on topic. I'd choose any Android phone that has the form factor you like and is also known to be easily rooted. Meaning, you can update to whatever firmware you feel like.
Apr 8, 2011 | 4:15 pm
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Personally, for business (meaning tons of emails), I find a physical keyboard works best.
For home/personal use, I can tolerate the virtual keyboard.
But, back on topic. I'd choose any Android phone that has the form factor you like and is also known to be easily rooted. Meaning, you can update to whatever firmware you feel like.
For home/personal use, I can tolerate the virtual keyboard.
But, back on topic. I'd choose any Android phone that has the form factor you like and is also known to be easily rooted. Meaning, you can update to whatever firmware you feel like.
For example, my old Samsung Moment, which had Android 1.6 and was upgraded to 2.1, is not supported by Samsung on 2.2. So the hacker community could not cobble together a 2.2 version without a base 2.2 version to work from.
This is why it is important to pick an Android phone with good manufacturer AND after-market support, to really realize the potential of the phone.
Apr 8, 2011 | 10:19 pm
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This does not mean the XDA / SDX developer would have the time, resources, or inclination to develop or brew something for a unpopular / OEM unsupported phone like the Sony Ericsson with an entirely new version of Android altogether.
So do not be fooled into thinking that any Android phone could be updated to any Android OS version, because that's just not true.
Apr 10, 2011 | 7:45 pm
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Thanks all for the inputs.
Just my 2c: since, as I understand, manufacturers of Android mobiles are making money only from hardware, that is, the handset, they have little inclination to keep releasing OS upgrades. This would simply allow users to hold on to their handset much longer. So it seems with any manufacturer (SE, Samsung, HTC etc.) the lifespan of a handset is 12-18 months, the period in which it's getting OS updates.
Just my 2c: since, as I understand, manufacturers of Android mobiles are making money only from hardware, that is, the handset, they have little inclination to keep releasing OS upgrades. This would simply allow users to hold on to their handset much longer. So it seems with any manufacturer (SE, Samsung, HTC etc.) the lifespan of a handset is 12-18 months, the period in which it's getting OS updates.