Motorola recently announced that its latest offering, the Droid 4 would not be receiving an update to Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 anytime soon. The company was vague about the time frame that owners of the new Droid could expect an update but referred mostly to “not until the 3rd quarter, at the earliest.”
Users of the Droid cried foul, naturally. They had just plopped down a couple hundred dollars for what they thought was a cutting edge phone running a cutting edge system, and then just like that, with one statement from the company, their hopes for the sleek and tasty Ice Cream Sandwich were dashed.
But this isn’t the first time Ice Cream Sandwich has turned out to be little more than a delicious mirage in the middle of a barren non-iOS landscape.
When users of the Nexus S received their updates for Ice Cream Sandwich it was like watching a bunch of children follow the pied piper over the edge of a cliff. Phones were crashing, GPS was going haywire, batteries were draining. It was chaos.
Now it sounds like Google is looking to put the Ice Cream Sandwich in the past and indulge tech enthusiast’s sweet tooth with Jellybean 5.0. Rumor has it that the new operating system will be released sometime in the 2nd quarter. This will be the latest operating system from Google and while that is all well and good, that leaves those users who are waiting for an Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 update with an obsolete system.
Something is clearly broken with the Android updating system. The fact that the code for the operating systems need to be tweaked and tinkered with to fit the various dimensions of the litany of Android-powered phones out there is part of the reason, but the testing phase which is performed by each of the different wireless networks can take months to complete. By the time that testing is complete — and as we are seeing in this case — the new system that gets beamed to phones all over the world can be totally obsolete.
One thing is certain: something about the Android updating cycle has to change.
Melissa is a guest blogger who writes about mobile technology, software development and HPcoupon codes.
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