Comments on: Motorola Atrix HD Unboxing and First Look

By: evltwn

evltwn — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 02:26:00 +0000

I saw that a couple days ago too. It’ll be interesting to see how it plays out. A lot of it depends on when Samsung got their Patent for the Galaxy Nexus and all the details they included.

By: Tejas Karandikar

Tejas Karandikar — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 18:05:00 +0000

@Kellex: Bootloader status? Is it locked down like a Razr?

By: MikeKorby

MikeKorby — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 16:54:00 +0000

root your phone, then decide for yourself when you want to upgrade. Granted, I never have had the negative experience of waiting for roms to be built, because my phones have been the Droid 1, HTC Incredible, and now the galaxy nexus.

By: Adam Truelove

Adam Truelove — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 16:53:00 +0000

You only have to worry about hardware to a point. Once it’s fast enough to run the OS who cares. My point is I’d take new software with adequate hardware over old software with screaming hardware any day.

By: MikeKorby

MikeKorby — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 16:51:00 +0000

If you want your software to run well, you need to concern yourself with hardware specs. I’m sure if someone really wanted to, they could put JB on a G1, but I assure you, the experience would be terrible. Granted, I can see where you may argue that splitting hairs between a 1.2 dual core and a 1.5 dual core may be unnecessary, but in all, for the best experience, software needs good hardware.

By: MikeKorby

MikeKorby — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 16:46:00 +0000

Apple was just approved for a patent involving NFC for checking in at airports, which is a feature they touted during WWDC. In other words, Apple will release their new tech, called iNFC, in the fall with the iPhone 5. You’ll start seeing tags go up everywhere. Needless to say, Apple will add NFC to their lawsuit with Samsung for using their technology two years before they had it.

By: Adam Truelove

Adam Truelove — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 16:31:00 +0000

Mine is running JB. And the OTA is rolling out to the GSM Gnex.

By: Sobr0801

Sobr0801 — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 16:08:00 +0000

The upgrade chain must end somewhere, and that ultimately should be decided by if the hardware can support the software.

By: Sobr0801

Sobr0801 — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:56:00 +0000

Wrote a big long reply to this. Anyways here is how I will simplify it.

Upgrade lag between versions is frustrating. I want my phone on the latest version, but I don’t want a Samsung, and I don’t want to have to buy a new phone every 6 months to a year. My next two options are either WP8, or an HTC Nexus if they release one. I haven’t decided yet.

I have owned

G1
Samsung Moment
Samsung Epic
HTC Inc 2 (exchanged)
Droid 3
HTC Rezound

Not one of these phones while I owned them has been officially upgraded to the next version. I am currently running a leaked version of ICS on my Rezound.

By: kixofmyg0t

kixofmyg0t — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:52:00 +0000

Hmmm. Then please go back to the Nexus One then. To you the Galaxy Nexus (which isn’t running Jelly Bean OTA yet so it’s fail in ur logic) and the Nexus One are the same.

By: Adam Truelove

Adam Truelove — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:48:00 +0000

Yes, 6 months from now I may be running Key Lime Pie on my Gnex. The SGSIII will probably still have ICS. That is a fail. The same goes for the HTC One X mentioned above. To me it is not about hardware specs. It is about software.

By: Adam Truelove

Adam Truelove — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:46:00 +0000

Sorry, I should have clarified. Any phone that isn’t running the most recent stock Android is a giant fail TO ME. To each his own, but I wouldn’t be able to keep my bias from creeping into reviews.

By: Adam Truelove

Adam Truelove — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:45:00 +0000

THIS.

By: kixofmyg0t

kixofmyg0t — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:01:00 +0000

YOU are what’s wrong with Android.

By: Sobr0801

Sobr0801 — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 12:34:00 +0000

Yes. To be honest, any phone other than a nexus is fail at some level.