On the contrary, despite previous claims, HTC desire smartphone will receive a software update to the latest version of Android. Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Wired.com
Smartphone HTC hardware manufacturer is struggling to make his mind.
On Tuesday, HTC quietly posted on his Facebook page that his desire smartphone owners would not receive the most recent update of the software Android, "Ginger bread". The company claimed a memory problem that conflicted with his custom, sense UI 3.0.
Less than 24 hours later, however, HTC made a complete reversal of 180 degrees about its position in a concise follow-up post: "contrary to what we said before, we do gingerbread HTC Desire".
HTC has not given a reason for avatars in this area, and the company did not respond immediately to a request for comment.
Issues of HTC update phone desire to stand out to a family much trouble for the Android platform. The Android team software development cycle has an average of a new version every six months. It's tough with manufacturers, they can take twice that amount of time to continue the process of the development of the creation of a new piece of hardware. HTC has complications added to update their connection software work with each new version of Android. So when a phone is ready for launch, the Android version that accompanies since it is obsolete.
Some say HTC sense software is what keeps the desire for an update.
"The hardware can handle without doubt ginger bread", Steve Kondik, creator of popular software modification CyanogenMod Android, he told Wired.com. "A standard generation of Android fits well, but once HTC adds things to her (sense UI, and everything that goes with it), it is not possible to split".
Google provides the code for the Android platform widely to manufacturers of finished each version (with some notable exceptions). It is what is called "stock Android," because the code comes directly from Google, without touching. A number of devices, and HTC Nexus One or the most recent G2X LG: ship with Android material.
However, many others, are supplied with adapted versions of the Android platform. "Sense" is the special taste of Android HTC, and the modified user interface serves mainly to differentiate the phones of HTC's saturation of other currently available in the market. The HTC initial statement suggested that the latest version of sense was too large to load in the 512 MB of flash memory which includes desire.
However, with some effort, HTC may be able to fit a version of the software of sense desire.
"Probably they have to cut the fat", software developer Koushik Dutta told Wired.com in an interview. "Provide the pejorative as optional downloads, further compressing the image resources," and other settings for the connection software resulting in a thinner space of software on the device.
It would not be realistic to expect continuous updates for smartphones taking into account the timetables of the industry.
"In general, consumers need to pay for updates in the initial time of purchase," mobile Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney told Wired.com in an e-mail. "Save your money and buy new devices every 2 years."
This two-year window is adjusted in line with the vision of Google for the companies and manufacturers. In may, Google announced an agreement with the most important manufacturers of smartphone and carriers, requiring newly purchased Android devices that purchases of participating partners, and companies will receive the most recent version of the Android software until 18 months after the initial version of the device.
Although desire debuted in first place before this agreement, it is not reasonable to expect a software update in a phone in less than a year old.
HTC dilemma poses the question: how many smartphones are not updated to the latest version of Android due to too much heavy custom interfaces?
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