Operation of pushing a new update to android powered smartphones

Remember the annoying adverts of the xperia S where the adam was invisioned and narrated by a 8 or 6 year old lad called ryan or adam. How the phone are powered by little tiny robots that save data like movies and then acquire a jetpack and transport that information to the corresponding desination. Well that phone that is displayed on the adverts is not I repeat NOT getting the update to the latest version of android. I'm sure the 2011 xperia S isn't the only phone that's missing out on the latest version of android OS 'jellybean'. Sony have confirmed that they won't be bringing out the latest version to 2011 handsets. You might be thinking i've become an apple fanboy but apple have really got right in their sense of concentrating on a select number of devices that they can create a optimized version of their OS of any hardware that they want. Since apple make the product, the OS and they configure all the nessesary network settings, they can push a faster update to the community compared to android.

Phone manufacturs rely on google to create an OS but since google have that many handsets that are running the android OS it's hard for phone manufacturs to keep up to date to what google are doing months before they bring out their new OS.

If say HTC wants the new version of android, first they've got to acquire the OS and then they've got to make it compatible for the device and adjusting the drivers like wifi and bluetooth and then HTC being HTC have got to create a skin that makes it their own look and feel and make a features that sets it's apart from the stock android look, then after all this software business, they've got to then get it verified by a network provider and then configure to work with that network and that's why it's takes so long for an update to come out for a phone even if it's a reltivly new phone.

Apple have already got their drivers installed in their OS so they don't need to optimize anything since they are default to the OS and the iPhone is alreadu license by at&t so there's virtually no verifying it with the network. Everything with apple happens behind the curtains and appears natural and that's why you don't see a lot of delayed update for iOS.

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