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**jbearamus** · #1 (**permalink**) 05-18-2010, 10:21 PM

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Originally Posted by p-slim

Google I/O in 14 hours and 6 minutes. Can't wait. its going to be an exciting 2 days.

yup, where they will officially announce Froyo and the Evo's software will be out of date from day one

**gullzway** · #2 (**permalink**) 05-18-2010, 10:55 PM

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Originally Posted by jbearamus

yup, where they will officially announce Froyo and the Evo's software will be out of date from day one

Realistically even if they announce Froyo, a phones Development takes months, probably longer. Do you expect Sprint to say Hey wait there's a new Android version out 2 weeks before our Major Evo launch, lets switch the OS. I don't see that happening, that's what future upgrades are for. If they set around waiting for the next best Androis OS, they would never release a phone!

**WarChild** · #3 (**permalink**) 05-18-2010, 10:58 PM

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Originally Posted by gullzway

Realistically even if they announce Froyo, a phones Development takes months, probably longer. Do you expect Sprint to say Hey wait there's a new Android version out 2 weeks before our Major Evo launch, lets switch the OS. I don't see that happening, that's what future upgrades are for. If they set around waiting for the next best Androis OS, they would never release a phone!

I definitely would rather they work all the kinks out before its released and I dont think it will be released that quick. just IMO

CW

**jbearamus** · #4 (**permalink**) 05-18-2010, 11:54 PM

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Originally Posted by gullzway

Realistically even if they announce Froyo, a phones Development takes months, probably longer. Do you expect Sprint to say Hey wait there's a new Android version out 2 weeks before our Major Evo launch, lets switch the OS. I don't see that happening, that's what future upgrades are for. If they set around waiting for the next best Androis OS, they would never release a phone!

nope i expect them to say "we understand there is demand for the newest version of android and we are working quickly with our partners to get this deployed as soon as possible" three weeks later they'll announce 3Q 2011 availability but then just stall until the Evo's replacement launches

testacon · #5 (**permalink**) 05-19-2010, 10:47 AM

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Originally Posted by jbearamus

nope i expect them to say "we understand there is demand for the newest version of android and we are working quickly with our partners to get this deployed as soon as possible" three weeks later they'll announce 3Q 2011 availability but then just stall until the Evo's replacement launches

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...

**jbearamus** · #6 (**permalink**) 05-19-2010, 03:02 PM

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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...

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...

THAT

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

**p-slim** · #7 (**permalink**) 05-19-2010, 03:47 PM

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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...

i wonder why the sdk was released so late. Nexus was released January 5th and it already had 2.1 , therefore 2.1 was created before January 5th. Just like the evo sdk for froyo has been released and froyo isn't even out yet.

**Cicatrize** · #8 (**permalink**) 05-19-2010, 03:51 PM

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Originally Posted by p-slim

i wonder why the sdk was released so late. Nexus was released January 5th and it already had 2.1 it, therefore 2.1 was created before January 5th. Just like the evo sdk for froyo has been released and froyo isn't even out yet.

Given that the device was completely governed by Google itself, they probably just decided to throw it out there once it was done and finish the SDK a little late.