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It 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 ha
by eigenvector 15y ago
It 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.