by Ed Oswald
At the end of today’s presenting, Jobs said that the full benefits of iPhone OS 4.0 would be at one's fingertips only to customers owning the iPhone 3GS and 3rd days iPod Trigger. For customers with an iPhone 3G or 2nd contemporaries iPod Light, the update would still be to hand, however functionality (including multitasking) would not m.
Fist out was any tribute of the imaginative iPhone and iPod Taste, now both coming up on their 3rd anniversary. Looks like this means its the end of the line for these two devices…
> It may be formerly to move to Android.
That is in actuality not prosperous to pinch you get a software update. Predominantly speaking, there are no OS updates on Android. Verizon Droid got updated from v2.0 to v2.1, but most Android phones are born, endure, and die with the same rendition of the operating system on them. The updates don’t rebuke from some prime Android repository as with Apple, they afflicted with from the drayman you got the phone from. They not only have no suffer updating phones in a computer-manner way, they have no incitement to do so. They are significant users who fancy updates to buy a new phone, even when that involves losing their contribution. There are Android phones shipping today with v1.6 that will never be updated. If your Android phone is 2 years old or was purchased for $99 (of a piece to an iPhone 3G today), you extraordinarily have almost no possibility risk of seeing an operating system upgrade.
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