Bad news about ICS for the Thunderbolt

[ice2008]

Not providing updates will hurt their rep though and impact future sales.

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[enik]

Not providing updates will hurt their rep though and impact future sales.

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I'd have to disagree. Sure to us it matters. Lord knows we hate slow updates but as someone who sells for Verizon the average consumer could really care less about updates.

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[DaRkL3AD3R]

I'd have to disagree. Sure to us it matters. Lord knows we hate slow updates but as someone who sells for Verizon the average consumer could really care less about updates.

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This. And HTC knows it all too well. That's why most OEM's go the cheap route and abandon devices less than 18 months into their lifetimes.


It just so happens that some companies are significantly more willing than others to at least update their products. Look at the Rezound that was a brand new phone that launched at the time of ICS with Gingerbread, and it took how many months to get ICS?

Was that Verizons fault too?

 

[anon(94115)]

Is there a Verizon leak for the sgs3? I must have missed it... Being on Verizon forever, I have many a oem leak come and go and Verizon sit on them. He'll the thunderbolt leak is from April, it has Verizon bloat and is sitting there. The bottleneck is verizon

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[anon(94115)]

This. And HTC knows it all too well. That's why most OEM's go the cheap route and abandon devices less than 18 months into their lifetimes.


It just so happens that some companies are significantly more willing than others to at least update their products. Look at the Rezound that was a brand new phone that launched at the time of ICS with Gingerbread, and it took how many months to get ICS?

Was that Verizons fault too?

Yes. The leak from February had Verizon bloat and was pretty darn good. Never made it ota... Who controls that?

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[DaRkL3AD3R]

Yes. The leak from February had Verizon bloat and was pretty darn good. Never made it ota... Who controls that?

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It obviously wasn't up to spec and HTC should have returned with a new update that fixed the issues Verizon had pointed out. But they didn't.


Better yet let's look at it this way. Galaxy S3 is already getting it's update across several carriers world-wide in a timely manner. It's ensuring quality from the get-go and putting out a significant amount of resources to get these updates in the hands of users, not just getting rejected by Verizon and then waiting almost 4 months to get back to them. Still HTC's fault.

 

[mgullick]

Facebook update from HTC:
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HTC Hey, Paul. We're aware we missed the deadline and know you're looking forward to the update. We're actively working with Verizon on ICS software for the Thunderbolt, and we'll notify customers as soon as we have an update.

Posted: about an hour ago

 

[mgullick]

Facebook update from HTC stating they realize they have now missed the deadline:

https://www.facebook.com/HTC/posts/10151374118973084