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He doesn't even yet get to experience what will happen when Google releases a new version of Android and you expect to see it on your tablet in a reasonable tim

by ben1040 14y ago

He doesn't even yet get to experience what will happen when Google releases a new version of Android and you expect to see it on your tablet in a reasonable time frame. I gave up on my Galaxy Tab 10.1 when Android 4 came out and Samsung chose to first announce and release a brand new line of tablet products running Android 4, and then slack on updating the ones that weren't even a year old at the time. The message they're sending was "oh, you want a tablet running a current OS? Why not ditch the one you just bought, and buy one of these?" As of December, maybe three weeks after the source was released to Android 4, there were custom firmware builds for the Tab 10.1 that were 80% functional - no camera support and power management could be flaky at times. If some hobbyists coding at home at night can get a tracer bullet in a couple weeks, Samsung has no excuse for the fact that there still has been no official update released. I prefer Android to iOS in general, but only on a Nexus device with less of a gap between Google as the software vendor and me as the end user.

gizzlon 14y ago
Are the iPads updated with new OS releases? Do they autoupdate?
- cstross 14y ago
  Yes and yes. As of iOS 5.x, iPads can update their own OS over wifi without requiring a complete nuke-and-reinstall-from-backup (as was needed in previous iterations of the OS).
- DeepDuh 14y ago
  iPad 1 won't get iOS6 though. I've seen that coming though, they have deliberately restricted it with only 256MB Ram.
aw3c2 14y ago
I use an Android phone with Android 2.3. I have no problems with that phone resulting from a new version being available. It works well. A new version does not change how well it works.
- ben1040 14y ago
  >A new version does not change how well it works. When you're talking about a Honeycomb-based tablet, it does. Android 3, as was released on the Galaxy Tab 10.1, was for all intents and purposes a "public beta." It is far behind the latest release in terms of stability and usability.

by ben1040 14y ago

gizzlon 14y ago

Are the iPads updated with new OS releases? Do they autoupdate?

cstross 14y ago
Yes and yes. As of iOS 5.x, iPads can update their own OS over wifi without requiring a complete nuke-and-reinstall-from-backup (as was needed in previous iterations of the OS).
DeepDuh 14y ago
iPad 1 won't get iOS6 though. I've seen that coming though, they have deliberately restricted it with only 256MB Ram.

aw3c2 14y ago

I use an Android phone with Android 2.3. I have no problems with that phone resulting from a new version being available. It works well. A new version does not change how well it works.

ben1040 14y ago
>A new version does not change how well it works. When you're talking about a Honeycomb-based tablet, it does. Android 3, as was released on the Galaxy Tab 10.1, was for all intents and purposes a "public beta." It is far behind the latest release in terms of stability and usability.