[Va1ha11a]

Well, with Google announcing Jelly Bean this afternoon, and OEMs as a whole being horrible with updates, I'm wondering how long until HTC comes out with an update (or will they just make a new phone and a new version of sense?). What do you all think?

[J3FFTXD]

I'll go ahead and guess November.

[geomatrix]

October the earliest, most likely January

[moosc]

Spring 2013 it takes oems roughly 8 months for new version updates

[crxssi]

I will guess never or maybe 1+ years, if we are really lucky. And that is based on the [so far] hollow promises for ICS on the Evo 3D. 4.0 was released on Oct 19, 2011 and there is still no news.

[kbp08tls]

Some dev over on XDA will port it long before HTC releases an update. I'm guessing it will take HTC source code to be released (what's the over/under on that happening?) along with 4.1 source to make it happen.

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[Muffspring18]

Well HTC still has to fix all the bugs we have now (Wifi, multitasking, etc..) but I'm guessing end of September for 4.1

[crxssi]

Well HTC still has to fix all the bugs we have now (Wifi, multitasking, etc..) but I'm guessing end of September for 4.1

September of 2013

[nathy321]

I think September

[kronosqq]

The original Evo launched with 2.1, and I can't remember when exactly it got 2.2 but at the very least it has been rolled out by October of that year when I first got mine. And it had 2.3 a year after the initial release. We've seen basically the same release dates for the Evo LTE and Jelly Bean as we did in 2010 for the OG Evo and Froyo so I have no reason to conclude that it will take any longer than october for the Evo LTE.

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[kronosqq]

I will guess never or maybe 1+ years, if we are really lucky. And that is based on the [so far] hollow promises for ICS on the Evo 3D. 4.0 was released on Oct 19, 2011 and there is still no news.

Yeah, no. The Evo 3D is a different case, read my other reply for my reasoning. In addition to that, there has been news. The update has been pushed out to unlocked 3D's, it's now just waiting on sprint to OK it before rolling out.

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[jaescott]

We rooted, with s smug attitude, shant have to wait long...

[Paul627g]

I'm going to say if you want it that bad, root and grab a custom ROM once the devs get their hands on the official source to compile a ROM from.

If your waiting on a official OTA update from HTC, take a long vacation because its not gonna happen soon...

Last report a few weeks ago I think it was like only 5% of devices have official ICS... Now with the official release of Jelly Bean less than a month away there are dozens of devices and millions of Android customers that will be not one, but two versions of Android behind still sitting on Gingerbread waiting for their glimmer of promised hope..

[Shadnic]

I think we're going to see a different kind of upgrade schedule than we have been in the past from HTC. Remember how their changed their entire sales strategy this year from making a thousand devices to fit every single niche in the mobile market to instead focusing on 2-3 high end devices all running equivalent hardware? Notice how they've teamed up with Sony, Pioneer, and are trying to really make a brand name out of HTC and One series phones? I think they're trying really hard to make this lines of phones as good as they can be, because they want to have one line of fantastic phones per year now. That means support and hopefully updates. I can't imagine they're going to leave this in the dust to never get updated, because, afterall, it's one of like 3 phones they've released in the US in the last 6 months.

[crxssi]

I think September

of 2013

[koolhand79]

I would guess we won't see an official release before 2013

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[crxssi]

I think we're going to see a different kind of upgrade schedule than we have been in the past from HTC. Remember how their changed their entire sales strategy this year from making a thousand devices to fit every single niche in the mobile market to instead focusing on 2-3 high end devices all running equivalent hardware?.

Good point. I guess we wait and see! I would love to be pleasantly surprised.

[nathy321]

of 2013

Lol hopefully not

[kronosqq]

Oh, another reason I think we'll see the update by October is that the Evo LTE, in addition to the the One series phones is a flagship phone for both Sprint and HTC. The last thing they need right now (both companies, really) is bad press about slow updates. Jelly Bean isn't a huge update like Ice Cream Sandwich was, it's more like the 2.1 to 2.2 upgrade, possibly the 2.2 to 2.3 one. They're going to be rolling out updates as soon as they can.

[nightmare]

I don't see this ending up like the ICS dilemma on the 3D. The migration from 2.3 to 4.0 is more drastic than what I think 4.0 to 4.1 should be. If true, the timing to update should be shorter.

All speculation, but I call it like I see it. I hope one.day Google will handle OTA updates directly.

[Glenn]

I'm gonna guess Nov. 2012.

[Mercury81]

This July for nexus. Family.

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[tarn451]

I say March 2013

[cloak.n.dagger]

I certainly won't wait for HTC or Sprint. Rooting and ROMing is the only way to get what you want when you want it! If anything, a long delay by the manufacturers to roll out JB will likely push me to Google's new Nexus line of products as my next purchase. I'm sick of waiting for all these manufacturers to overlay their UI on top of a perfectly functional UI, while customers have to wait around for 6-12 months to get an update! At some point manufacturers need to understand that people want a vanilla Android UI. They can/should provide their UI as a launcher and people can optionally use it if they want to.

[kronosqq]

I certainly won't wait for HTC or Sprint. Rooting and ROMing is the only way to get what you want when you want it! If anything, a long delay by the manufacturers to roll out JB will likely push me to Google's new Nexus line of products as my next purchase. I'm sick of waiting for all these manufacturers to overlay their UI on top of a perfectly functional UI, while customers have to wait around for 6-12 months to get an update! At some point manufacturers need to understand that people want a vanilla Android UI. They can/should provide their UI as a launcher and people can optionally use it if they want to.

While the skinning for sense is a factor for phones like the Evo 3D which has yet to officially jump to 4.0 on Sprint, it won't be a issue for the 4.0 to 4.1 jump as the UI hasn't changed, they're just adding features to what's already there.

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