Comments on: What does the Nexus One update mean for the future of Android?

By: Gib Wallis

Gib Wallis — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:39:39 +0000

Tony, I have a Nexus One (love it!) and I'm now using the HTC Desire's Sense UI in a alpha build (love it too!).

So I'd have to disagree with you -- you'll probably wait a shorter time and still have the Sense UI by getting a Nexus One. I'm hoping for people on other carriers who opt for the HTC Desire (Bravo) that they get updates almost as fast as the Nexus One folks, because it's almost the same phone.

But I bet Nexus One users will still get the Sense UI faster than the Sense UI phones get the stock Android OS updates.

By: Gib Wallis

Gib Wallis — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:39:39 +0000

By: Gib Wallis

Gib Wallis — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:39:39 +0000

By: David Nielsen

David Nielsen — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:35:05 +0000

I have to agree, I own the HTC Hero and I am tied to a rather expensive unlimited data subscription. In return I have a phone that only after a Windows only upgrade was available in my language, with an interface that is both unbelievably sluggish but also filled with small to large bugs which have yet to be fixed. I have a hope that the promised 2.1 update will finally drop soon but it seems idiotic to hope that it wouldn't also have problems seeing as it is such a huge upgrade. My fear is what their process is going to be to incrementally improve the stability and performance of the experience, so far there has been none.

Next time I am definitely going with a phone that will offer me the same level of timely updates as the Nexus One users currently enjoy. I hope the speculation in this article is true, I hope that it is a wakeup call for vendors on how to release and maintain smartphones.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 08:48:00 +0000

Android is still OPEN SOURCED…
The reason why other phones are getting left behind is because these companies take toooo long to release an update. Hero was way behind because HTC won’t release 1.6 or 2.0 with SENSE. They just won’t release an update. Now that is out of google’s hand, they’ve already put 1.6 into AOSP back in august(i think not quite sure) 2.0 in AOSP way back in november, 2.1 last month. but HTC still hasn’t gotten into putting their additional proprietary UI overlay on top of Android. you can’t say you can’t really call it open sourced. THE source is out the community uses it. There are 2.1 ports on G1s already and everything’s working fine except for youtube HD and video camera drivers, which contains proprietary bits from google and htc. Technically Android is open sourced and the community can build on them. But google owns their own apps which is pretty much, gmail, youtube, etc, and htc needs to release their drivers. otherwise you’ll get a working android phone (call, text and stuff) just not youtube HD and vid cam drivers.

and for ur motorola droid… u need to wait for Motorola to update their drivers on for eclair to fully run functionally on ur droid… that’s not google’s problem, they put out the codes on open sourced already, its not them lagging. its motorola.

and don’t be frustrated, ur on 2.0.1… a lot of us are still on 1.5 and 1.6 and yet we are happy because we can mod our phones and we can build our custom roms, because Android is OPEN SOURCED…

By: Ron

Ron — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 06:19:00 +0000

Thanks for the info, but I’m not an iPhone user, but my brother and his wife is.

By: tonyhedges

tonyhedges — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 06:15:58 +0000

I am counting on patience being a virtue. I have a Hero and I reckon it will be better than the 'plain vanilla' Nexus One when we eventually get our 2.1 update. The Nexus one is OK, but it does not have Sense UI, and I think (IMHO) that HTC Sense is the best thing to happen to android (1.5 & 1.6 through the HTC Tattoo) and it will be much better than plain old unadulterated 2.1 alone. So on I wait, and I will think of you when I get the update and feel sorry that you didn't have the patience required…

By: Greymarch

Greymarch — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:19:00 +0000

I disagree with the premise that the OEMs have no financial reason to update the Android OS on their particular phones. I think they would like to update the OS because good customer service makes money. The problem is that the OEMs dont understand the Android OS as well as Google does, and they certainly dont have the quantity nor quality of programmers that Google has.

- Greymarch
I write about technology, including the Nexus One at my website.
http://www.greymarch.com

By: Alberto Vildosola

Alberto Vildosola — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 04:26:00 +0000

Yeah I almost posted this pic on the article. http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/6XfWwUoDsnmp1bgakBDMRw?feat=directlink It gives you some perspective on why the Nexus One hasn’t as successful as the Droid. Sprint is 2X bigger than T-mo, AT&T is 3X bigger, and Verizon is 4X bigger.

By: Ron

Ron — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:43:00 +0000

You know, with all the updates and new OS releases, it seem that the newest android phone always one step ahead of the other. Compare to the iPhone which is just one iPhone (manufacture by apple) where all users will get the latest update at the same time from iTune, Now with the many android phone out there, it just confusing and frustrating to be left out from all the android goodness has to offer. The truth be, I don’t know if you would call it free or opensource anymore when you leave other behind. I own a Motorola Droid, head news recently that android 2.1 was release and hoping for an OTA will come soon. So what now which many would ask or wonder and where is android heading from here on…