Your android device

Technobuffalo's jon rettinger made a video the other day and it really hit some points that I was discussing a couple of weeks ago. One of the points were be happy with the phone that you've got the day you buy it. Buy a phone that will furfill your needs right away and don't look for a phone that might be getting updated to a recent software. Undoubtenly, I could actually use the same advice, I bought the pre 3 on the basis that it was going to become open sourced and all the major manufacturs and app developers would get their hands on it. Well in result to this the pre3 is getting android apps and iOS dratically increasing the amount of apps available from 4000 apps to a little over 2 million. I've been waiting for this webos enyo for about 6 months and it's still not come out yet. It's set to release september with all the things that HP open sourced crew promised.

I got a little bit off topic... Oh well. With any update to an android phone or any phone really. First of all a version of the update has to be tested and ripped apart so it works on that phone and that phones drivers and then it's got to go through the skinning process so if the manufacturer wants to put a skin on it like HTC sense and then it's got to be pushed to the device but before it comes to the public it's got to get carrier authroasion to ensure it works on the network and then eventually brought to the public and this is why many android devices have not been updated to ice cream sandwich yet because the likes of HTC feel like some devices aren't worth it or it's not capable to run the new software. So after these processe, it might come apprant that it's just not worth pushing out the new software and that's why many devices are on gingerbread instead of the new version of ICS. Many phones might have had the ICS updated but they haven't been updated further than that to a subsidived update e.g. 4.0.4. Since manufacturer have already made the leap to ICS and they don't want to go through the whole process again.

The only way you are guanteed updates and great life expecteny is one of the google nexus phones. Since they are made with life in mind by google and they want to keep this phone on the market for as long as possible. With the galaxy nexus there's virtually no need to root the phone since you are already getting the native OS.

There's a complete subject about rooting that i'd like to talk about but i'll do that in the future (not just android, i'll be talking about rooting iOS as well)

Thanks for reading