2011-01-12, 01:48 AM
The problem with Android phones is not the OS, it's the carriers, and for a part, the manufacturers.
Get an Android handset now, and you will probably get the next 2 iterations of Android (2.3, 3.0) gods knows when, and maybe 3.1, and then your manufacterer will drop updates for your phone. Popular cases are: any lower-end Android phone, Xperia X10, and probably the Desire, which won't live to get 3.0.
There are 3 main reasons for this. a) OEMs have to update their shitty skins that only slow down the phones. b) Carriers have to re-write their crapware apps for the version, c) they claim they do some testing, which I find redundant since Google already should have done most of it
Google needs to fix this, fast.
With the iPhone you have 2 years of guarenteed updates, which is about 2 entire iOS versions.
Disclaimer though; Had(still have) the iPhone 4, but a Samsung Omnia 7(Windows Phone 7) is my main device at the moment.
Get an Android handset now, and you will probably get the next 2 iterations of Android (2.3, 3.0) gods knows when, and maybe 3.1, and then your manufacterer will drop updates for your phone. Popular cases are: any lower-end Android phone, Xperia X10, and probably the Desire, which won't live to get 3.0.
There are 3 main reasons for this. a) OEMs have to update their shitty skins that only slow down the phones. b) Carriers have to re-write their crapware apps for the version, c) they claim they do some testing, which I find redundant since Google already should have done most of it
Google needs to fix this, fast.
With the iPhone you have 2 years of guarenteed updates, which is about 2 entire iOS versions.
Disclaimer though; Had(still have) the iPhone 4, but a Samsung Omnia 7(Windows Phone 7) is my main device at the moment.