Updates for Android

I've done a blog in a while, and i've been meaning to but i've just not been able to find the time and plus i've really got into the audio blogs on youtube. It's www.youtube.com/techguy276 and you'll actually be able to hear my voice and my true opinions on new phones and tech news.

Get a couple of emails and questions every few weeks asking me when is the latest version of android coming out for my X phone and when will it be available to me. Well if you're running on a samsung galaxy S3 or HTC ONE X, you're going to have to wait for a bit until the latest version of android comes out for your phone. First google annouce the new OS (4.2) and the exact same day, that OS is sent to the developers and manufactuers so they can QA (quality assureance) make sure everything works and every feature that worked before, works again and espically when manufactuerers put skins on top of hte android OS, they've got to make sure that the Skin is backwards compatible with the latest OS and nothings broke. It may not sound like it takes long but it actually does, for each and every phone they've got to test the OS and make sure all the drivers work. Sometimes a phone that's a year old may not get the update because it requires a lot of man hours and money to ensure that it works. the manufactuers may not want to put all the man hours to a phone that wasn't very popular.

If you really want to be on the latest, buy a nexus Device, these devices are made by companies supervised by Google so they've got the orders and within days of 4.2 jellybean coming out the galaxy nexus got the update virtually straight away.

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