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Starting School For Software Devoloper

Day 2 and a lot more to go. It is apparent I hate math.

Todays Technology

The rate that tech is advancing is staggering. Makes me wonder a couple of things 1 will I be able to keep up, and 2 will I care. Cell phones and the android platform fascinate me, but it's like will my phone be updated? Will my phone get a virus from the market? Unlikely but makes one wonder. Now what about these carriers and tablets.......

andoid versions

Seems to me that the whole update is shenanigans! now this is just my theory not fact of course. I wonder if my phone can even accept and run a update, is the processor fast enough...... hmmmm makes one wonder. The market is set for one to upgrade ones phone that will get old. Course who wouldn't mind a new piece of tech however,seems like marketing of the modern tech business.

why we cant get droid updates

What causes this delay is that phone makers have neglected to hire enough staff to push out the updates fast enough. Most seem to have only enough employees to develop the software for the firm’s next phone release, with updates to current models taking a backseat.

This is made worse, ironically, by Android’s greatest asset – its open nature. Every company sticking Android on its handsets is allowed to customize the OS however it chooses. Typically, this results in OEMs putting in so much of their own code that updating the underlying Android build becomes incredibly complex.

And here is where things get really ridiculous; rather than have one version of each phone so software can be pushed out to all SKUs, the various carriers also complicate matters by demanding that the software be operator branded, further fragmenting and complicating the update issue.

That means that instead of having one build of phone, you have one for every operator who carries the phone, which means instead of building just one software update for that phone, you now have 20 plus builds that need quality testing, bug fixing, QA etc, thus further drawing out the update process.

This is simply not sustainable, and we’ve already seen more than a few murmurs from people refusing to buy the next ‘great’ device from the top phonemakers simply because they know they won’t get timely updates and will be stuck going through the same thing all over again.

One thing phone firms don’t seem to have grasped is that, these days, the company known for putting out updates to its devices the quickest will get the most business from customers wishing to keep up.

Google are always in a hurry to push out new versions of all their products – anyone who uses the search giant’s Chrome browser can attest to how quickly new features appear. Unlike most Google products, Android has gone without a significant update for around six months now – but that hasn’t stopped Google teasing us in the menatime.

We first spied version 3.0 (Honeycomb) when Andy Rubin flashed a Motorola tablet sporting the then-unseen version at D: Dive Into Mobile, and now to crank the Android hype machine just that little bit higher, Google have released an official video showing off what we can expect when Honeycomb hits.

The video, embedded below, details how Honeycomb is built specifically for tablets (don’t expect to see this version of your handset), and breaks away from traditional Android design language by introducing fancy things like concave 3D interfaces, and a new, chunky keyboard for that terrible tablet typing iPad users have come to know so well.

Elsewhere at CES, Tweakers.net has uncovered a Sony Ericsson Arc (one of the new handsets announced at the show) running the not-yet-seen version 2.4. This version is said to be an incremental update from 2.3, adding in peripheral features like deletion animations and more visible video calling options.

Of course, all this Android goodness is scant consolation for those of us still (still!) waiting for version 2.3 to hit our Nexus Ones, which, if you take Google’s word for it, should be any day now.