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I don't want updates "indefinitely". I think 2 years of updates, which is the usual lifetime of a phone, or updating to 2 major new versions (5.0 and 6.0 for 4.
by nextparadigms 15y ago
I don't want updates "indefinitely". I think 2 years of updates, which is the usual lifetime of a phone, or updating to 2 major new versions (5.0 and 6.0 for 4.0/ICS phones) is reasonable.
I don't mind if they raise the price a little, but they'll have to heavily promote this "feature", otherwise customers won't know why their phone is more expensive than the competition who isn't offering these updates.
- eigenvector 15y agoIt would be a lot easier for handset vendors to upgrade all of their devices from the last 2 years if they didn't release a new phone with slightly different hardware every month. LG alone is upgrading 11 devices to ICS - that's over twice as many devices as _all_ of the iPhones ever released, and Apple has been selling iPhones since 2007. Baring actual hardware limitations (e.g. the lack of NAND space on the Nexus One), most of the work in porting a ROM is the device drivers. Vendors are really shooting themselves in the foot by releasing a dozen different hardware configurations in a single year.
- fpgeek 15y agoI don't know if you realize this, but the Galaxy S meets your criteria. The Galaxy S was released with Eclair (2.1) and got two major upgrades: Froyo (2.2) and Gingerbread (2.3). I'm not sure what this means for your definition of reasonable support, but I thought it was worth noting.