The updates that the nexus Gerard have nothing to do with when we will get ours. All nexus devices get their updates straight from Google while Motorola has to build their version and send it to Verizon to see if Verizon wants any changes. If Verizon wants more changes they get more changes and then when they like the build they will release it OTA.
How about some Official OTA gingerbread vzw? DANG!
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The updates that the nexus Gerard have nothing to do with when we will get ours. All nexus devices get their updates straight from Google while Motorola has to build their version and send it to Verizon to see if Verizon wants any changes. If Verizon wants more changes they get more changes and then when they like the build they will release it OTA.
The latest is 4.5.591 and it appears to be more stable than 4.5.588, not saying it was bad but the latest build seem to a bit more refined on system reaction time.
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Only a handful of non-Nexus devices have officially received 3 major Android OS updates.
The OG Droid went from 2.0 to 2.1 to 2.2. The Evo will presumably go from 2.1 to 2.2 to 2.3.
Considering that the current stable of VZW Droids (X, Droid 2, D2G, D INC, and maybe Droid Pro) should all get Gingerbread, I'd say that puts VZW way ahead of everyone else as far as updates are concerned. VZW has also done more to update their Galaxy Tab than the other domestic carriers have.
Considering the nature of Android OS updates, I think we are all in all pretty lucky to be on VZW. Basically, if you buy a device at or shortly after its launch on Big Red, you are basically assured of about a year of pretty solid updates to your device.
The OG Droid went from 2.0 to 2.1 to 2.2. The Evo will presumably go from 2.1 to 2.2 to 2.3.
Considering that the current stable of VZW Droids (X, Droid 2, D2G, D INC, and maybe Droid Pro) should all get Gingerbread, I'd say that puts VZW way ahead of everyone else as far as updates are concerned. VZW has also done more to update their Galaxy Tab than the other domestic carriers have.
Considering the nature of Android OS updates, I think we are all in all pretty lucky to be on VZW. Basically, if you buy a device at or shortly after its launch on Big Red, you are basically assured of about a year of pretty solid updates to your device.
That's understandable, I understand that a device has about a six month life, and I understand a person is lucky to get updates in that time span. And I think most folks have become excited and curiousity has become intensified by the hype and the articles and literature about this update. People like things that are new, and like anything that is yet to be released, the longer it takes to release, the more impatient people become, I know that's the way I feel.
I am happy with this phone but from day one I care not for blur on this phone, and from what I read, blur has been updated in gingerbread, and im ready to see it in the flesh. And there is several things im sure, don't come to mind right now, that has been improved from froyo to gingerbread. If a car maker releases to the press, that they have been working with a company and came out with an upgrade where a person can get 100 mpg from a certain car they make but they keep holding back on releasing it, those folks are gonna get impatient from the waiting.
I came from a crapberry, and to be on an android phone has been a wonderful experience. I was lead to believe that I was going to have the same experience with the Blackberry Storm I bought, and at the time didn't know any better, and once getting this phone, it's been great, im getting 50 mpg from this phone but im ready to get that 100 mpg, show me what more this baby will do, blow my mind.
Come on Vzw and pull your finger out of your butt.
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What was that update that was put out the first of April, that manual update, I was a day late and a dollar short like some other folks.
The April update, supposedly "official" and OTA but actually a leak, was version 2.3.3, system 4.5.588. I've had it since then and have been very impressed. I'm hoping to get the genuine OTA whenever it comes, but may have to go back to 2.2.1 (froyo with Dec. update) to get it. Will wait to see what happens.
Ok my bad, I thought I read on this site, where vzw was just starting to release the update but it was not ota, it had to be loaded on your phone manually. It was the first of april I read that. Confused here.
Your memory is right. You DID read that in April. The initial reaction was just as you remember ... people thought it was "official." But, as I said in my post above (and others have also emphasized), it was actually a leak - available only for a short time and one that had to be manually installed. The real "official" GB OTA is to be a later, more improved version when it is released.
Do you suppose those "leaks" are intentional, turning those who install them into beta testers while the programmers look at the forums to note bugs and flaws?
From what I read, the real official GB will be version .596 unless more changes are made between now & release.
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