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Originally Posted by Deutch
The official Android 2.1 for the Moment was just released a few days ago, but I've been running it for about a month now. 2.1 was definitely not available before it was leaked in mid April-ish.
We will have Froyo on the EVO relatively quickly thanks to XDS-Developers. Hero users have been running 2.1 for months thanks to them and with the popularity of the EVO, I expect this phone to be rooted with custom ROMs available within weeks of release.
On topic - I'm amazed at how fast this thread progressed over a $10 charge. I understand everyone's complaints, but the way I put it in perspective was by looking at the alternatives and quickly realizing that it is awfully nice to be with Sprint.
I had to give up my plan of 2500 mins w/ free texts, mms, roaming, internet, n&w @ 7 that cost me $100 (not including my 18% disc) for the 1450 simply everything plan to get my moment and coming from a touch pro. I'm paying roughly $30 more per month but I'm perfectly content doing so. Android is a breath of fresh air coming from WM. Can't wait to see the difference with the EVO...
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it'll be interesting to see how well they can pull that off because they'll have to extract the software to run the WiMax chip from the existing rom
and the fact that they're still cheaper than every one else, is not an excuse to raise their rates
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Originally Posted by testacon
Sprints bad, but not THAT bad...
It looks like the Sprint Hero was released on or around Oct 11, 2009. The 2.1 SDK was released Jan 12, 2010 and the update provided by Sprint was May 19th, 2010. So the turn around for the update was ~4 months.
If this is to be the new flagship phone I wonder if they will be more speedy with the updates? Didn't the Palm Pre get updates all the time to work in iTunes? If the updates go faster, I seriously do not mind the $10 a month fee. Four months though, not worth it and we already get that slow service for free...
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and the updates from palm were so quick but it was only palm involved, they added their updates and that was it. with android google has to release the rom to the manufacturers then HTC has to make sure Sense is compatible, when Android went 2.x they had to rebuild sense from the ground up and with the changes in 2.2 who knows what they'll have to change